27 Nov
Archive for November, 2008
26 Nov
Headlines I didn’t need to see today
Workers riot in south China over unemployment: report
6 hours ago
GUANGZHOU, China (AFP) – Hundreds of laid off workers rioted in southern China amid a dispute over severance pay, smashing offices of a toy factory and clashing with police, state press said Wednesday.
The unrest in Guangdong province, the heartland of China’s export-oriented light industry, is the [...]
25 Nov
Not with a bang, but a whimper
“The government covers the surface of society with an network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd…
Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize… it stupefies a people, till each [...]
25 Nov
Feral Cats Roam Pittsburgh Neighborhoods
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Thousands of feral cats are roaming around the city of Pittsburgh and they’re becoming a problem.
Throughout the city, people complain that they’ve become a nuisance – loud scavengers who may also be rabid and carry other diseases and their numbers are growing.
Like other shelters throughout the region, the Humane Society on [...]
24 Nov
Quoteball
“I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained.”
“The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.”
~ Ben Bernanke, from an interview with The New Yorker magazine.
Gee, Ben… D’YA THINK????
Between this and the CitiGroup thing that just [...]
23 Nov
This Thanksgiving Season the Animals Have Something to be Thankful for: Citizens for a No-Kill Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA.
November 29th 7-10pm – A dedicated group of over 400 volunteers is working in Philadelphia to stop the killing of healthy and treatable companion animals by lobbying city hall and elected officials to embrace the No-Kill Philosophy.
Saturday, November 29th from 7-10pm the Citizens for a No-Kill Philadelphia will be hosting a Happy Hour at [...]
