Current Affairs

A friend of mine’s house was struck by lightening Saturday. Luckily they were not home and the dog was outside.

Here’s a newsmap, kind of like the market map from Smart Money that I posted a few months ago. It uses google news and color codes news according to type and shades it according to time. Size seems to be related to number of related articles. (I found this on the They Rule blog.)

The editor of the Daily Mirror was fired for posting fake pictures of British soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners, but Rumsfeld hasn’t been fired for allowing real abuse to take place. As a matter of fact, nobody has really been punished for allowing real abuse to take place. From what I can tell that’s not because

A woman who has four children in foster care was ordered not to have any more until she can take care of them. (Turns out she was pregnant again by the time the ruling happened!) I certainly understand where the judge is coming from. This couple should not have any more children. However, must not?

I think that most people blindly follow the beliefs of their party. I bet 80% of you that agree with the above statement agree because you think members of the opposite party are stupid, bull headed and blindly follow their party. They never listen to you. Right? We waste way too much time pitting Democrats

Fast Company | Don’t Manage Time, Manage Yourself “The typical businessperson experiences 170 interactions per day (phone calls, hallway conversations, emails) and has a backlog of 200 to 300 hours of uncompleted work.” Wow! No wonder I feel like I’m never done!

This article from USA Today tries to describe how the soldiers in Abu Ghraib, people that lived normal, caring lives in the US, could have gotten caught up in the torture of prisoners: USATODAY.com – Abuse less shocking in light of history. The article refers to several psychology experiements that I remember from Psych 101.