There’s been a bit of severe weather talk this afternoon. We even got an email at work suggesting we keep our NOAA weather alert radios on through the night.
In a way it almost feels like hurricane season (though we didn’t have to bag the computers at the office before we left). I suppose it’s better to be safe than sorry, but it seems like our weather people cry wolf a little…
NYT:
President Bush rebuffed appeals from the nation’s governors on Monday to increase spending on roads, bridges and other public works as a way to revive the economy.
Hey, it’s not like roads and bridges have any other purpose. We trust people to spend the money on things we really need: Big Macs and video games.
“There’s no short-term stimulus to the economy for some of these…
Beth’s been going to an after school science program for the last few weeks, and she’s been having a blast. We’ve had some great after school discussions about things like weather patterns and ecological systems. Cheryl had a different kind of experience this week though, when she discovered a disturbing bag of goo on the counter.
“Ugh, what’s this?” She asked.
I was bouncing around the internet this evening and I came across a blog post discussing the problems with their child’s school. It reminded me of the trouble we had a couple years ago with Beth. (It’s two years later Beth still talks about that teacher every now and again.)
The purpose of this entry is to share with you (yet again) how proud I am of my daughter, and how grateful I am…
Is Ralph Nader running again?:
Four years after he announced a presidential run on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ralph Nader is poised to do it again.
He’s scheduled to appear on the program Sunday, and longtime associates say they think the consumer advocate will announce his candidacy. Having abandoned the Green Party after being its nominee in 2000, he’s more likely to…
washingtonpost.com:
Employers would get more authority to check on the reasons workers give for excused absences, under proposed changes to the U.S. family and medical leave regulations, a rule-tightening sure to trigger a political firestorm…
One major change would allow employers to contact health-care providers who authorize the leave, access they don’t have now…
Some…
Newsvine:
Florida’s much-maligned child welfare workers will soon begin carrying handheld devices, like the ones delivery companies use to track packages, that show whether they really are checking in on the children under their supervision…
Child welfare workers currently record home visits on paper forms, then type the information into a state database. That can take up to 60 days…
I read a piece about Cuba this afternoon which was notable because… I was reading the news! My memories from the last week have taken up residence in a thick fog, so I can’t tell you why I was news deprived. I can tell you that I’m more than a little worried that this fog seems to follow an increase in dosage of a drug I’m taking to prevent headaches. I may have to do…
I don’t like the word diet. It has such a temporary connotation, as if we have no intention of making a long term commitment to healthy eating. And worse? Diets often have little to do with good health, and everything to do with vanity. Who cares how healthy it is, as long as we get skinny? Remember the cabbage soup diet, or the claims that you could lose ten to fifteen pounds in a…