Author: Carnacki

crossposted at DailyKos Other than my happy story diaries, most of my diaries on DailyKos and Booman Tribune are really bleak. Dire predictions of flu pandemics, global warming creating catastrophic environmental disasters, the...

On this date in 1911, one of the worst factory disasters in U.S. history occurred. A rag pile ignited at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. and killed 146 people, mostly young, immigrant women. The owners had not installed fire escapes...

Despite the rantings of Rush Limbaugh and his ilk, the evidence is piling up that human causes are causing climate change on a global level. So what is the Bush administration doing about it? Weakening environmental laws to...

AT TIMES I feel really worried about the growing theocracy movement and what that means, particularly for the groups they have targetted for demonization.  I wrote this diary in November and am cross-posting it to remind...

A comment by Soj just reminded me of a conspiracy theory that many believe to be true. And remember, just because it is a conspiracy theory does not mean you need to wear a tinfoil hat. For years people who claimed the CIA and...