Archive for October, 2007
Ah, plastic!
30 Oct 2007Come see our giant toxic stew! / 1,500 miles wide, floating in the Pacific, made of all your plastic crap. Bring the kids! Have you heard? Did you see? It’s called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (or Pacific Trash Vortex, among other awesome nicknames) and it’s a staggering phenomenon indeed and after reading up on [...]
A useless talent
In: Journal
27 Oct 2007Sometimes I have prophetic dreams. I discovered this years ago when I dreamed that my mother was being carried down our steps on a stretcher. Less than twelve hours later, I watched that exact scene played out in real life after Mom had a stroke. It was startling to say the least. But usually, my [...]
Just when we were starting to relax
In: San Diego Fires
27 Oct 2007Wildfires 2007: Cal Fire: “We’re not out of the woods yet.” Amid all the increasingly optimistic reports coming out on the county’s various fires comes this cautionary note from retired Cal Fire Capt. Fred Daskoski, recalled to duty for this firestorm: Partially contained fires are just that — partially contained. And time may not be [...]
The handwriting on the wall
27 Oct 2007Smoke masks the California sun With all the talk about emergency preparedness and homeland security, the true newsworthiness of these giant disasters lies in the way they punch holes in our false sense of security, the notion that, in case of emergency, the government will take care of us. Most of us tend to view [...]
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