rants

Wednesday 31 August

black people loot, white people find (15:39) - Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store... A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans... [via Philebrity] Update The originals: Looting... | 8 Comments

Tuesday 19 July

888 858-9823 (11:34) - I've never been bothered by telemarketers all too much. Generally I just hang up on them and that is the end of it. However, over the past month I have received somewhere between 40-50 calls from Chase Manhattan. Tracy has... | 15 Comments

Friday 4 February

there is nothing happening on the internet today (14:03) - Nothing good happening out in the blogosphere today, nothing that has perked my interests anyway. So whats up everyone? Ready for the superbowl?...

Thursday 9 September

Suburbs and Poverty (12:34) - Something that I've noticed around Detroit but never fully registered is the huge disparity in affluence between the inner/older, where the old 8 Mile boundary has shifted outwards, and outer/newer suburbs: The Suburbanization of Poverty. Today, 13.8 million poor Americans...

Friday 20 August

The Prison-Industrial Complex (14:45) - Pharmaceutical companies do this all the time: commission a study in order to justify a position but then bury the research when it doesn't go your way. But Robert X. Cringely recently writes about someone else doing this -- the...

Monday 26 July

Why I hate giant pandas (14:23) - Last night I watched an episode of Nature called "The Panda Baby" I learned that the giant panda is so endearing that people are willing to spend millions of dollars to maintain the species in captivity. Even though giant pandas...