The Nightly News Is Torture –and My Powerball Numbers!
Chuck's re-cap of Wednesday's nightly TV news!
View ArticleNine Circles! Thursday: A Flood of Wars and a Revolution
Algeria oilfield firefight, another Homs massacre, more Iraq bombings, EU joins Mali war, Kenya favors ethnic groups in run-up to vote, NATO military leaders not in on Afghan pullout plans, Pakistan...
View ArticleThe Fish Stinks from the Head
Welcome to the Moment of Truth: the organ God forgot to create that metabolizes carcinogenic chemicals. I’ve been thinking. Not often, and not especially well, but I have been thinking. For the past...
View ArticleThe Nine Circles of Hell! for Monday: A Sign of the Crimes
Egypt condemns Israel amidst protests, US denies war crime claims against special forces, Nigeria's deadly violence, Gates Foundation embezzlement investigation, Congo's shaky peace deal, Zimbabwe's...
View ArticleThe Nine Circles of Hell! for Monday: There is Plenty for Eeveryone
Iraq prisons attacked, EU wants Morsi free, US drone surveillance expanding, France defends veil ban after violence, WHO had told India to ban pesticide that killed 23 kids, Fukushima admits...
View ArticleURL Labs’ Website Of The Week for September 14, 2013
http://www.nationstates.net/ From the website: “NationStates is a free nation simulation game. You create your own country, fashioned after your own ideals, and care for its people. Either that or you...
View ArticleURL Labs’ Website Of The Week for September 21, 2013
http://breakingdefense.com A really decent, wonky military news site with edge and the occasional bit of bizarre entertainment as well, like this Air Force General wearing a Captain America mask.
View ArticleURL Labs’ Website Of The Week
http://darkreading.com In stark contrast to last week, this site is way mainstream corporate. Still, multiple sources are good things.
View ArticleTake back your Internet
URL Labs’ Website Of The Week: https://dearfcc.org/ The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) helps make it easy for the FCC to clearly hear the united voices for keeping our Internet open.
View ArticleNerdsville straight ahead.
URL Labs’ Website Of The Week http://trustmech.com/ “Trust Me, I am a ‘Mechanical Engineer’.”
View ArticleThe sky is falling! …or full.
URL Labs’ Website Of The Week: http://n2yo.com Realtime satellite tracking. You can track the Planetary Society’s LightSail here: http://www.n2yo.com/?s=40661
View ArticleAnimated kids!
URL Labs’ Website Of The Week: http://www.abcya.com/animate.htm A pretty awesome free, online animation tool for kids… or anyone else interested in free online animation tools.
View ArticleThe Gov on drugs!
URL Labs’ Website Of The Week: http://drugabuse.gov Home of the National Institute of Health’s National Institute on Drug Abuse. Learn what the gov thinks about your drug use.
View ArticleStorytelling in the courtroom / #FightForDyett and beyond
Lawpagandist Brian Foley explains his work with the Applied Legal Storytelling, a movement he co-created that brings techniques of narrative fiction into the courtroom, tells us what lawyers can learn...
View ArticleDevelopment’s dark side / Legalization and the drug war
Anuradha Mittal profiles the dangerous lives of land rights activists in Ethiopia and Cameroon. Laura Carlsen explains how marijuana legalization trends are shifting US-Mexico drug war policies.
View ArticleCapitalism and climate change’s twin births.
Ecologist Andreas Malm explores the links between fossil fuels and capitalism’s 19th century explosion. PLUS: Rotten History and a letter from Ed Sutton on how to help refugees – http://www.sufr.ch/
View ArticleChicago is not broke, just poor in leadership and rich in corruption.
Civic educator Tom Tresser shows why the city of Chicago is not broke, just poor in leadership. / Laddie O examines personal cybersecurity in the wake of the Apple / FBI court case.
View ArticleA city’s post-industrial gamble on casino capitalism.
Author Chloe Taft examines Bethlehem, PA’s post-industrial bet on casino gambling.
View ArticleWhy post-911 America needs its own Nuremberg Trials.
Author Rebecca Gordon makes the case for the prosecution of officials for post-9/11 war crimes.
View ArticleLost in the spiral: How American lost control of the terror war.
Writer Mark Danner explains how America lost its identity in the pursuit of endless war. PLUS: Question from Hell!
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