A Leak, Then a Deluge

The Washington Post: Politics

See also: Copy of Fitzgerald's statement (pdf)

Proud owner of 4 new teeth

 
 

Gardener at work

 
The latest in a long line of farmers and gardeners. 

Tough Learning conference extract

Provocative thoughts on challenges and strategies for effective personal development.
Extreme thinking by Michael A. Nielsen

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

My friend Steve strongly recommends this book:
Read it online.

Touchstone Archives: Phil’s Shadow

My dear Mother (just turned 80 last month) saves and gives me her old issues of Touchstone, so I enjoy them somewhat later than most readers. The April 2004 issue contained a terrific review/theological analysis of the Bill Murray classic "Groundhog Day": Touchstone Archives: Phil’s Shadow. It makes me want to watch the film yet another time.

Mata Masu Dubara

means Women on the Move, or Most Resourceful Women

Working It Out On Their Own

Dr. Hangadoumbo is a friend.

On K Street Conservatism, George Will, Newsweek

George and I don't usually see eye-to-eye, but this week, he hits hot and hard on some hugely important issues.

Just one example: "In 1987 Reagan vetoed a transportation bill because it contained 152 earmarks — pork — costing $1.4 billion. The bill President Bush signed contained 6,371, costing $24 billion. The total cost of the bill—$286 billion—is more, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than the combined costs of the Marshall Plan and the interstate highway system."

Okay, here's another: "Since 2000 the number of registered lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled, from 16,342 to 34,785. They have not been attracted to the seat of government, like flies to honey, for the purpose of limiting government."

NIGER: Government plans food security reserve, wants to modernise farming

Reuters AlertNet: "The head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Niger, Michele Falavigna, said last week that the UN had received just 50 percent of the US $80 million it requested from donors for its overall humanitarian aid programme for Niger."

Interpreting Harriet Miers

Robert Reich: "According to the Census Bureau, only the top 5 percent of households have been enjoying real economic gains. Almost all the economic growth has gone to the top. ... Not since the Gilded Age of the 1890s has this nation experienced anything like the inequality of income, wealth and opportunity we’re now witnessing."

U.N. halting food aid in Niger to ease market prices

The Washington Times - the news is still mostly bad

Pastor blogs Katrina experience

A very good read.