Author: ask

Are you worried yet

Apart from the daily dishings on Tom DeLay, there’s not much encouragement in the news these days.  The economy is faltering and the stock market tanked the last three days of last week – bonddad’s diary....

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How far would YOU go for the environment

So, I’m feeling a bit drained in the office earlier today and drift on to the internets to zone out a little.  Don’t take this diary too seriously, but some of you guys and gals can be quite funny and I know you...

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Two-thirds of the earth’s resources used up

I was doubting whether this deserved a diary, but given the apparent little attention it has received, I would hate to see it buried at the bottom of the open/world thread. I just came across this story in the Guardian I took...

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My story from Kyrgyzstan

(Promoted to the front page by Susanhbu.) I was at my gf’s apt last night.  TV-news on in the background while dinner is being prepared – I have just logged on to Booman’s.  A next-door neighbor, a...

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Trouble at Homeland Security?

There was a little piece today in my free morning paper (amNY) that caught my attention. WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department’s former independent watchdog says he was twice summoned to then-Secretary Tom...

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