During the first Gulf War there was a story of someone who said they signed up for the education, not to go to war. This was characterised as “failure to read the large print”. (Come to think of it, that sounds awfully Rumsfeldian, doesn’t it?)
The Boston Globe ran a story about Nathaniel Abraham, [...]
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All of Oklahoma is under a state of emergency. At present, 405,000 people are without electricity – that’s about 10% of the population. The high school in Jones, just northeast of Oklahoma City, burned down this morning – the fire might have been triggered by the weather, and it definitely hurt fire fighting.
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Oklahomans are obsessed with the weather – it’s probably a feature of living in Tornado Alley. They preempt prime time TV for weather. And, of course, big weather events need big names. Hence “Ice Storm 2007″. Unfortunately, we already had one of those. Schools were shut down for a week [...]
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