Cold is finally here. Temps have been frigid the past several days, with highs not hitting 50 and lows easily dipping down near freezing. The past couple of days have even necessitated gloves and a parka. A few people are still walking around in shorts but they are few and far between. The mass grumbling…
Month: October 2005
Straw Breaking the Camel’s Back
Dear UM Undergraduates, I’ve accepted that it’s part of the social landscape now for you to walk into a wing of a library that is supposed to be used for study and instead use it as an open-air forum for your cell phone conversations, and I’ve accepted that some of you don’t care what you…
Department of …
From our « Clueless Department »: ‘Delta Air Lines Inc. will likely ask its pilots union to extend an agreement to recall retired pilots to prevent staffing shortages as it ambitiously expands its international service while operating under bankruptcy protection, chief executive Gerald Grinstein said Tuesday. Grinstein made the comments after a news conference set up to…
Life in the Empire
“These weren’t the works of psychopaths — they were people fighting against something intolerable that many of us know is there, but hasn’t been named yet.” « The Kinder, Gentler American Empire »: ‘… it’s a fairly powerful event to find a decent-sized book that does nothing but articulate a series of truths about the American Life…
Pat Tillman, Hero
“As with most of the Mayberry Machiavellians’ schemes, this is yet another one that is coming unraveled.” Great national hero and former darling of the fascists, Pat Tillman, has, gasp the horror, been « outed as a Noam Chomsky lover » — and boy is Ann Coulter ever pissed: ‘“I don’t believe it,” seethed Ann Coulter. Her…
Wrong Again
It’s been back up in the mid-80s with high dewpoints for the past several days, just proving once again that trying to predict weather in Michigan is (especially if you’re a rank amateur, like me) a fool’s errand.