On June 16, 2007, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon released a statement in which he proposed that the slaughter in Darfur was caused “at least in part from climate change”, and that it “derives, to some degree, from man-made global warming”. Darfur conflict – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Apparently, Martians were not mentioned. Blogged with…
The reprehensible act of screaming and shouting because you’re pissed while driving. It’s called road rage, right? Or, in the good old days, being an asshole. Instead of truly investigating and revealing the underlying masturbation, the media have fallen once again for the endless barrage of “official” disorders. This time it’s IED, or — get…
For the holidays, my friends Elaine and <a href=”http://www.docrpm.com”>Ryan</a> gave me a beautiful edition of Dava Sobel’s <a href=”http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=29038″><span style=”font-weight:bold;”><span style=”font-style:italic;”>The Planets</span></span></a>, published last fall by Viking. If you’ve ever read an English translation of Charles Baudelaire’s <span style=”font-weight:bold;”><span style=”font-style:italic;”>Paris Spleen</span></span>, you’ll have a strong sense of how tight and pleasing this book is. As…
Today, I had the pleasure of discovering the San Francisco Zoo. Although I’ve lived here for eight years and have no conscious reason for having blown off the zoo for so long, I figured it was time to take the plunge. The zoo surprised me many times. It is much larger than I though it…