I was just saying this to Somegirl yesterday, that I thought blogging actually made ADD-type concentration problems worse. Looks like there’s something to the idea:
Today’s world, with its energy, excitement and excess, its novelty, chaos and confusion, its dust storms of data, its creative spirit and irreverence, its speed and its incoherence, looks much like [...]

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You know what? Maybe there’s legitimate cause for this specific company to do this. But tactical bankruptcies have also become just one more trick in the management toolbox, and I’m tired of reading about rocketing corporate profits that lead to workers getting kicked in the teeth:
DETROIT, March 31 — Delphi, the nation’s biggest auto [...]

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Melanie does pho.

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This is the last weekend for Silk City before it closes, the end of an era. See you there?

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I try to get off the phone ASAP when someone calls me on my cell. No extended chats if I can help it:
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The use of mobile phones over a long period of time can raise the risk for brain tumors, a new Swedish study said on Friday, contradicting the conclusions of other [...]

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And its name is George:
Nixon White House counselor John Dean, testifying in favor of a Democratic resolution to censure President Bush, asserted Friday that Bush’s conduct in connection with domestic spying exceeds the wrongdoing that toppled his former boss from power.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, fired back by telling Democrats: “Quit trying to score political points.”
The [...]

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Patrick Murphy, the Iraq war vet who’s running in my soon-to-be-former congressional district (PA-8), has a good shot at beating the Republican incumbent. You can give him money until midnight tonight. Even if it’s $5, it helps. Click here.

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I keep saying it: what they’re about is cheap, disposable labor. Via Kevin:
Hey, guess who President Bush has nominated to head up the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division? That’s right: the guy who represented Wal-Mart in trying to prevent a class of 1.5 million women from suing the company for discrimination in pay and [...]

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Raw Story:
A press release from a Georgia Republican House member bragging of calling anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan a “nutcase” has vanished from the congressman’s website — just hours after an email blast from his press secretary.
The release from Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) follows.

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Tweet, tweet.
Birds eat bugs, don’t they?

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One of my overseas correspondents points this out:
The Pentagon stalled efforts to clean water supplies contaminated by a carcinogenic chemical despite evidence that it posed a significant health risk to millions of people, it was reported yesterday.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) investigated the solvent, trichloroethylene, extensively used on military bases, after significant quantities were [...]

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It’s not going to be as easy for them to get away with it this time:
BERLIN — United Nations atomic energy chief Mohamed ElBaradei urged the international community Thursday to steer away from threats of sanctions against Iran, saying the country’s nuclear program was not “an imminent threat” and that the time had come to [...]

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Interesting. An entire long article about a 1913 law that says if your marriage isn’t legal in your home state, it’s not legal in Massachusetts - and how it’s been used against gay couples by Mitt Romney (who, after all, wants to run for President):
In oral arguments before the high court in October, a lawyer [...]

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Funny:
NEW YORK - If you work from an office in your home, you probably have a pretty good idea of the meaning of the word “frustrating.” Jason Welshonse does. He runs a computer support and consulting firm and has just won a competition called the “Home Office From Hell Contest.”
Entrants had to list the top [...]

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Oh, look. The Sequoia voting machines they’re planning to use in yet another Philadelphia suburban county are (gasp!) very easy to hack into and change the totals! Who knew such things were even possible?

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Washington Post Radio debuted yesterday. Not a bad idea.

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John Dean will be testifying at the Senate censure hearing this morning (live on CSPAN at 10 a.m. EST):
Dean was summoned to the hearing by Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., the author of a resolution to censure, or officially scold, Bush. The measure would condemn Bush’s “unlawful authorization of wiretaps of Americans within the United States [...]

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There’s something about being in your own bed without people waking you up every freaking hour to take your blood pressure that’s very conducive to a good night’s sleep. Just thought I’d share.

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David Sirota on why workers aren’t quite as ecstatic as the pundits think they should be:
As I noted last week, media pundits like Sam Donaldson simply cannot understand why polls show the public is so down on the economic direction of our country. These commentators - who are supposed to reflect the true pulse of [...]

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Remember when I posted the link last week to send roses to Helen Thomas? 1,200 roses were delivered tonight.

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American soldiers are seeking political asylum in Canada.

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And I’m out of the Hellmouth. Tonight was my last train ride home on the old R7, the last sunset on Bristol Pike as I walked toward my car. (The doctor told me to take a day off from work to recover. Twist my arm, I sez.)

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I know I am:
The US military plans to detonate a 700 tonne explosive charge in a test called “Divine Strake” that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said.
“I don’t want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you’ll see a mushroom cloud [...]

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So what’s he going to do about it - not let priests play with little boys?
Pope Benedict used a meeting with Italy’s right of center party on Thursday to launch a new salvo against same-sex marriage and the left of center coalition that supports domestic partner law fired back accusing the pontiff of trying to [...]

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Are we blue? Yes, indeed:
This is not Bush Country. It’s blue from sea to shining sea.
Yes, that’s right, you can now travel through the US from the Atlantic to the Pacific without setting foot in a state where Bush’s approval tops 45%, according to the March Survey USA polls.

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As I was lying there in the hospital last night, I saw the first reports that Jill Carroll had been freed. I’m happy to see it was true.

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Short version: My heart is fine. Chest x-ray and liver scan, oddly enough, not so fine. Two somethings on my lung and a “hypodensity” in my liver. (In my family, we’re not so crazy about liver masses these days.)
Follow-up appointment to be scheduled next week.

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I noted the pain in my chest last night, more as a matter of interest than panic. It’s worse if I cough (although I don’t have a cough), and it goes all the way through to my back. In fact, it feels much like when I had pneumonia last year, only without the crackly sound [...]

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What do you call a country without laws?
WASHINGTON, March 28 — Five former judges on the nation’s most secretive court, including one who resigned in apparent protest over President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping, urged Congress on Tuesday to give the court a formal role in overseeing the surveillance program.
In a rare glimpse into the inner [...]

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New York magazine takes a comprehensive look at the unanswered questions from 9/11 and the resulting conspiracy theories. [Via Mark Morford.]

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