Wait, wait, wait… tell me why I’m leaving again? The Houndstooth was rated the #1 Sports Bar in the nation? Damnit. It is an awesome place to catch a game. Why, just last night I was there to watch Bobby Knight and The Red Raiders of Texas Tech beat Kansas in Double Overtime. Awesome. Alas, [...]
I picked up this article from The Hot Librarian and thought I would share. The moral of this article is think before you donate. GALLE, Sri Lanka — At the main warehouse in Galle, mountains of cardboard boxes and suitcases ready to burst take up a quarter of the cavernous building. Some are labeled “Aid [...]
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This is kinda old, so many of you may have seen it, but I recommend going to read it anyway… either again, or for the first time. You won’t be sorry. I’d prefer not to die in a head-on collision with someone who—against all odds—has the same name as me. Or anyone named, for instance, Roger [...]
There’s really just no excuse whatsoever for this. On top of having all the markings of a PR nightmare, it’s just plain wrong. The Bush administration is fighting the former prisoners of war in court, trying to prevent them from collecting nearly $1 billion from Iraq that a federal judge awarded them as compensation for their [...]