See recent photos tagged with keywords related to the hurricane:
Katrina, Hurricane, New Orleans, Louisiana, Biloxi
I’m not only donating money to the Red Cross, I’m also sorting out clothes and other items that we had left over from the garage sale to donate to charity, especially if I can find a group that is taking them to send south….
Of course, as Bush was pulling a “My Pet Goat II” by vacationing, eating cake and playing his “official presidential seal” guitar while Katrina devastated the south, the religious right was pinning the blame for Hurricane Katrina on gay people.
Ethan puts it best in his post: Nice Guitar, Asshole.
Louisiana’s disaster planning funds were relocated by the president to fund Iraq and for your tax cuts.
New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers federal funding was cut by $71.2 million in June.
Mississippi and Louisiana National Guard troops are not available to help flood relief because they are serving in Iraq.
According to Salon Magazine, Commissioner Kevin J. Martin of the FCC has been meeting quietly with religious leaders and industry leaders to try to organize a push for new stricter standards on what is broadcast over cable stations.
Pardon me, please, because I’m going to lose it right here.
USE YOUR FUCKING ‘V’ CHIP, PEOPLE. That’s what it’s FOR. I AM NOT YOUR GOD-DAMNED BABYSITTER.
I don’t want my cable television censored because you’re too damned lazy or stupid to monitor what your children are watching on television. You PAY FOR that cable and bring it into your own home. If you don’t want your kids to see something, SHUT IT OFF. You know how to do that, don’t you, you retarded fucking moron?
If this goes through, I’m going to calculate the cost of babysitting charges for every parent of every child in the entire country, and I’m going to start a lawsuit against someone, I don’t know who yet, to CHARGE PEOPLE FOR THE BABYSITTING SERVICES I’LL BE PROVIDING TO RETARDED PARENTS who are forcing me to have my television censored.
God damned, mother-fucking, retarded son-of-a-bitch morons. Shithead assholes. Losers. Uni-brow idiots. Stop fucking BREEDING if you can’t be smarter than this.
Regarding this Sally Jenkins article on Washington Post, I’ve never read a printed article so full of logical fallacies before. I’m speechless.
Not sure whether I find this to be morbid or fascinating: Find a Grave: a website that lists gravesites and burial information for millions of people.
Of course I immediately searched for my families names. My grandfather on my mom’s side isn’t listed, but there are some others that are probably relatives from her site of the family, because they’re buried in Rock Island, Illinois.
[Navigated to by way of Steven Johnson’s Blog. Johnson is the author of Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter which I read recently.]
Quoting from Wikipedia:
The phrase The Long Tail, as a proper noun, was first coined by Chris Anderson. Beginning in a series of speeches in early 2004 and culminating with the publication of a Wired Magazine article in October 2004, Anderson described the effects of the long tail on current and future business models. Anderson observed that products that are in low demand or have low sales volume can collectively make up a market share that rivals or exceeds the relatively few current bestsellers and blockbusters, if the store or distribution channel is large enough. Examples of such mega-stores include Amazon.com, Netflix and even Wikipedia.
Meaning that if you’re into some obscure punk band that no one but you and two people in Idaho have heard of, some businesses with large distribution channels can provide them to you, and their business on small demand items can exceed business for large demand items. Which explains who so many obscure movies are now being released on DVD, where there’s now a market for them via Internet companies that don’t need to provide a physical store to house them.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Stephanie and I got out the Xbox game Dance Dance Revolution for the first time this Sunday and played it. I am an uncoordinated dork, but it’s incredibly fun. Hopefully the more I play the less of an uncoordinated dork I will become.