Tag Archives: Current Affairs

My heart and soul go out to the people of Blacksburg. Before anyone tries to make some kind of tormented martyr out of this guy, he was an asshole of the worst possible proportion. I don’t care what his excuse was.  And, don’t try to pin this on everyone else as this being "society’s fault".  Someone close to him had… (more…)

A horrible accident occurred today near my hometown today. Comair flight 5191 crashed taking off from Bluegrass Airport.  49 of the 50 people aboard died.  No names have been released as of this time, but a lot of friends and family of mine use that airport frequently.  I know my family’s safe, but still waiting to see if anyone I… (more…)

In what I think is a sign of the times, Risk and Insurance webpage is now including risk of terrorism in their list of safe and dangerous places to live.  I toyed with their list just a little bit to get an idea of where to live if you’re kinda paranoid about anything: Metropolitan Area Sev. Thunderstorm Hurricane Earthquake Terrorism… (more…)

I did an article on the tsunami that struck over the weekend. The death toll has been raised to about 23,000 and counting as I write this. This will definetly go down as one of the great disasters of all  time.  Used to be a time when a hurricane would cause a thousand deaths.  But, in this day and age,… (more…)

U.S. hospitals have been actively solicited by pharmaceutical distributors offering the flu vaccine at vastly inflated prices, since the supply has been cut in half due to Chiron Corp.’s plant contamination problems, a survey said Wednesday. The price-gouging is an “immoral thing,” Dr. Julie Gerberding, director at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), told CNNfn’s Fred Katayama. “Shame on the… (more…)

This year has been brutal. The tally, final I hope, looks like this: Charley: 36 Frances: 35 Gaston: 8 ( Tropical storm, but part of the season ) Ivan: 115 and Jeanne: 1,537 I made a little graph: Come on, people, we need to help Haiti. The place was in bad enough shape before all this.

Interstate Bakeries Corp. filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday after struggling with more than $1.3 billion in debt and weak demand for bread products amid the popularity of low-carbohydrate diets. OMG, what next? Can anyone actually ponder a life without Twinkies? Even if you don’t eat them regularly, you always had that option. Possibly no more. This is a crisis. This… (more…)

This is so absurd I’m sort of at a loss for words: NELSON, British Columbia — After burning their draft cards during the Vietnam War, tens of thousands of Americans avoided jail by fleeing to Canada. Many settled in the small town of Nelson, British Columbia (search), just across the Washington state border. Now, 30 years later, the mayor of… (more…)

A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine when it was discovered that passenger Yusuf Islam formerly known as singer Cat Stevens was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country. I feel so much safer knowing Cat Stevens isn’t allowed near me.