Author: ejmw

I couldn’t find this written up anywhere else here.  Please let me know if I missed it.

Yesterday, Marty Bahamonde testified before the Senate Homeland Security Comittee.  Included with his testimony were several emails sent from his blackberry.  These emails are quite damning, to say the least.

Like many of you, I sat watching my television in horror on that Sunday night, wondering why I was seeing people streaming into the Superdome, but no supplies.

It turns out that Marty Bahamonde, the ‘eyes and ears on the ground’ for Mike Brown, was in the SuperDome at that time.  And he was extremely concerned as well.

Sometimes it seems like every bit of news that we read is depressing, maddening, or sometimes tragic.  In stories that appear to be favorable and wholesome on the surface, our skepticism allows us to see sinister undercurrents.

I think there are a few factors that cause this:
  -) a sensationalist news media
  -) our own mistrustful and sometimes jaded approach to stories that are marketed as ‘good news’
  -) the repeated attempts to package bad happenings in good news like some anecdotal trojan horse

But this is not meant to be an analysis of our system of news.

Instead, I’ve decided to try something a little different.  Lately I have been growing weary (as I know many of you have) of all the bad news; it keeps piling on and on.  And when there is some kind of ‘good’ news, it is invariably based in Republican schadenfreude and we talk and write about it ad infinitum.

So I’ve decided to use this diary to package up a few genuinely good news stories that you may or may not have heard about that aren’t based on the misfortune of corrupt incompetents.

OK, I admit it…I’m an unabashed geek.  Trust me, it comes with the territory of being an engineer.

Science fiction like Jurassic Park and Minority Report, while admittedly freaky, are also very intriguing from a ‘hypothetical’ standpoint.  It’s when you see the consequences of the abusive use of the science that it starts to get really scary.

That’s kind of how I feel about this little discovery.  But this one is real.

Did you know your printer might be watching you?  

OK folks, I have to go to bed soon, but I think this is important.

Hurricane Wilma has strengthened over the last 12 hours in nearly unprecedented rapidity.  The folks on the weather channel are just about choking on their tongues trying to describe this right now.

As they say in Star Wars : I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

More on the flip.

[From the diaries by susanhu. CNN is also reporting this story. (Finally reporting something about...