From the New York Times:
Officials of the federal Centers for Disease Control said they contacted Mr. Speaker while he was on vacation in Italy after they learned that he carried the dangerous strain of the disease, and advised him to turn himself in to Italian health authorities.
Instead, he made his way to Prague, flew from [...]
Come fall, no more trips to Manhattan or King of Prussia to get the new Stila eyeshadow palettes. It’s high time.
Read this. That really is the extent and purpose of this post. Link preservation. It’s very funny and rings very, very true.
From the New York Times:
Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London and organizer of the group, bucked public opinion when he imposed a hefty fee (now about $16) to drive on London’s busiest streets. The result was increased productivity for businesses, enhanced public transportation — paid for with fee revenues — and streets that flow so [...]
From the New York Times:
To the Editor:
As a physician, I applaud Bob Herbert for his insightful May 15 column about the importance of paid sick days for American workers. I’ve been saying for years that the coughing, sneezing and flu-like symptoms among workers in restaurants and other public places are a public health hazard.
These employees [...]
From the New York Times:
To the Editor:
Thomas L. Friedman wants us to “radically reduce our dependence on oil.”
The reality is that we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
The “radical” remedy is that we need to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and along the outer continental shelf. The fact that we do [...]
This is about work. maybe I should have posted it on the blog I made for work, but I won’t. I want it to be more humorous and less stressed.So I’ll put it here.
I’m frustrated and becoming moreso. No one likes general surgery of the newer people. The only one who’s been there for less [...]
From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Evolution is a fact
In the Republican presidential debate on MSNBC, three of the candidates expressed something shocking. Asked if anyone on the stage “does not believe in evolution,” Sen. Sam Brownback, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Rep. Tom Tancredo raised their hands. That alone should spell an immediate end to their respective [...]
I hate when places I frequent start going bad. Take my once-favorite coffee shop half a block from the park. It used to be a great place to get a coffee drink, a bagel in the morning and a salad or sandwich in the afternoon. During the past few months or so, I noticed that [...]
From the New York Times:
Mr. Bush spent much of the day in Tampa, Fla., at MacDill Air Force Base, headquarters of the United States Central Command, which coordinates Iraq operations. While he did not directly address the Iraq spending bill there, he warned that an early exit could turn Iraq into “a cauldron of chaos.”
If [...]