Ed. - Since I wrote this, Tropical Storm Fay has turned her eyes towards a Cat 1 Tampa landfall. Ironic.
Great NYT piece today about the general weather amnesia setting in over in Florida, only four years after we got our collective asses kicked by five hurricanes in six weeks.
“Officials tell us that […]
In most of Western civilization, we’ve elevated reductionism and ambivalence to the status of state religion. We write off cultural myth as merely fanciful storytelling (or worse, literal truth); reduce vital political debates to the competitive give-and-take of a football game; entertain the idea that formal education is little more than cultural repression; even […]
Once upon a time, there was young woman named Katrina. She didn’t have much to her name, was just getting started in life, and arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida in the late summer of 2005 with a slight touch of attitude but otherwise unremarkably.
Katrina’s arrival in West Palm Beach was noted by some, […]
No comments today, just wanted to share a good news story found in the Orlando Sentinel this morning. Pretty excellent piece on what’s really happening in the housing market, what variable rate ARM’s are about to do, and what greater ramifications we can expect.
If the worst fears about these loans materialize, the economic damage […]
We all know that over the last five and a half years, our current federal administration has devoted a tremendous amount of resources to the “War on Terror”. Intelligence agencies have been realigned. Wars are being fought. Torture is tolerated in secret prisons worldwide. Legal protections fundamental to American society have […]
