Ha Ha! Dallas has to choose between safety and money. Wanna bet which wins? Its red-light camera system has been an effective deterrent to motorists running red lights – some monitored intersections have experienced a more than 50 percent reduction. But decreased revenue from red light-running violations means significantly less revenue to maintain the camera …
This seems more like land of the oppressive and home of the craven: Al-Ghizzawi, now 45, is a Libyan-born man who had been living quietly in Afghanistan with his Afghan wife. They had a small shop selling honey and spices that they later expanded to a bakery. They have a young daughter, now 6 years …
These are a few of my favorite Mac programs: Ecto — This is the program I use for blogging when on my own computer. For a long while, pretty much since it’s been available, I’ve been using the version 3 betas and while I’ve definitely had a few hiccups here and there (primarily with posts …
. . . this will probably clarify them past what some of you may feel comfortable with. I recieved this email and I support it and believe in it: Spitzer Resigns – It’s Time to Impeach Bush Today Gov. Eliot Spitzer apologized again to the people of New York for his personal failings and resigned, …
You should go read “Life must go on in Gaza and Sderot.” Not because the writers are important, but because they aren’t. Because they are simply two men, writing from the front lines, caught in the crossfire, and telling a story that all of us should hear. Please take a moment to visit their blog …
Congress passed a law that will let forgive Federal Student Loans for all public servants after 10 years of repayment: H.R.2669 College Cost Reduction and Access Act (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)TITLE IV–LOAN FORGIVENESS SEC. 401. LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES. Section 455 (20 U.S.C. 1087e) is further …
Lately I’ve been reflecting on my computer habits and the ways in which I waste time. For quite a while now my home page on my browser has been Netvibes and I have had five pages of various RSS feeds. Recently I even put together a page of 10 feeds that were all Apple news …
This is one of the more gorgeous examples of steampunk mods I’ve come across. I adore my Macbook Pro, but stuff like this is beautiful on a whole other level. If I were to go into graduate school, analytic, pretentious intellectual mode, I would write about how steampunk taps into people’s desire to have a …
An exciting development in the fight against HIV/AIDS: Stephen Barr, a molecular virologist in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, says his team has identified a gene called TRIM22 that can block HIV infection in a cell culture by preventing the assembly of the virus. “When we put this gene in cells, it prevents …
Here are some of the details of Bush’s budget proposal: The President once again requests that his 2001 and 2003 tax cuts be made permanent. Making these tax cuts permanent is estimated to cost over $2 trillion in lost revenue over the ten year period 2009 to 2018. These huge revenue losses are attributable to …