Blogcoven

Yesterday, the proposed amendment to the Constitution to outlaw flag burning as a form of protest failed. Amending the Constitution requires 67 votes in the Senate to be passed to the states for ratification, and then three fourths of the states must approve it. The amendment got 66 votes.
This is deeply, deeply disturbing. I [...]

I mentioned recently that I often question reality, or what I define as reality. Last weekend, a plan to forge some semblance of peace (they call it “reconciliation,” I think) in Iraq was unveiled. I like plans for reconciliation. From the very superficial reading I’ve done, it looks like this one might not suck. One [...]

Giant excavations are amazingly cool. I guess everyone knows this already, but I would like to remind you by showing you these photos of underground flood tunnels in Japan.You could totally film large sections of Akira, the Movie in those tunnels. In fact, it makes the vision of the tunnels all the more realistic. I [...]

I read this morning that there were 15 American “servicemembers” (what does that mean? soldiers? medical crew? contractors?) killed this week, bringing the total to 2,516 (okay, it’s not a neutral source, but I’m pretty sure I read about us hitting 2,500 recently. There are also apparently about 40,000 Iraqi civilian deaths.
Numbers. Woo. But [...]

Clearly I have been a good girl this year, as I seem to have experienced yet another stroke of amazing luck. The reasonably large (read: not very important in the Grand Scheme of things but very important in the very small world I currently occupy) presentation scheduled for the 4th of July has been moved. [...]