Check Flickr for photos from the scene BBC NEWS | Americas | Large blast hits Mexican capital Police and ambulances are attending the scene of a large blast in Mexico City, where at least one person is reported to have been killed and another hurt.
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Why vote Republican, when items like this pop up: BBC NEWS | Business | US consumer confidence plummets Confidence among US consumers has fallen to a 16-year low, as fears grow about recession and job cuts, a closely-watched survey has found. That’s right, since 1991… during the waning days of Bush 41. Coincidence? Maybe not.
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Sometimes I read the letters to the editor to the Salt Lake Tribune and feel like jeering. Occasionally, I read the letters and feel like cheering. Today, I feel like wearing balloons and a party hat and waving flags, because an “old Mormon bishop” wrote a righteous, inspiring letter. Now this really rare for me, approving of the opinions of LDS bishops, and I wanted to save the whole letter because they go off the SL Trib website so fast. It’s to do with that idiot Buttars, of course: I cannot pick up my copy of The Tribune on any morning and not read how our…
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State Sen. Chris Butters, R-SomeBraindeadConstituency, UT, has said some stupid things before, but this takes the cake: Salt Lake Tribune – Buttars’ racial slur leads to rebuke, apology It’s a good thing Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, isn’t running for president of the United States. He had a macaca moment on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon.”This baby is black It’s a dark ugly thing,” Buttars remarked during vigorous debate about SB48, legislation aimed at equalizing school capital outlay funding when school districts split. Buttars’ blunder outlasted debate on the bill. After senators returned from a 10-minute break, Senate President John…
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US gov wants data on Europe air passengers – Boing Boing The US government is pressuring 27 European Union nations to agree on new transatlantic air travel security measures which include armed guards on all flights from Europe to America operated by US airlines. Wait, why weren’t we doing this in the period immediately following 9/11, when we became a nation of bug-eyed fraidy cats willing to hand over the Bill of Rights to the nice strong people in charge if only they would keep us safe from Osama the Boogie Man? I admit that on September 15, approximately when…
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1 hurt as backstage fire halts performance of ‘Peter Pan’ at Elgin high school — chicagotribune.com ELGIN – A small fire broke out Saturday at a high school dance performance of “Peter Pan” in Elgin, forcing the audience of about 300 to evacuate. One person was injured – nothing fatal or too serious, fortunately. The Tribune has amateur video that has a surreal sequence of various costumed cast members evacuating, some calmly, some in a panic. Tinkerbell trots down the sidewalk pretty briskly, and another character screams “It’s horrible!” as she races by the camera, but one of the mice…
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Case in point: Enthusiastic GOP teen to fight citations – Yahoo! News
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Yes, I laughed out loud at a joke based on a very unfunny conceit. Is that wrong and bad? The more I read about how horrified the Repunditans – those most ultra-strident media voices screaming from the rightmost lunatic fringes on the far side of Genghis Khan – are with McCain’s success, the more I wonder at their blindness. Because it’s becoming evident that the folks who’ve been voting for McCain are the moderates who’ve been whipped and beaten into silent acquiesence by the social conservatives of the Religious Right, and the independents who aren’t going for the Democrats. McCain…
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Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today. Watch for the cranky pranksters at Discovery Institute to come out with a debunk paper any time now.
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… because the Captiva (Audiencia) screen reported that Ralph Nader was thinking of running for President again. Don’t run, Ralph! Don’t screw this up for the rest of the country again! He’s baaaacccckkk….Nader forms presidential exploratory committee – Tales from the Trail: 2008