Oh dear me. Polimom really doesn’t like the sound of this (NOLA.com):
WASHINGTON (AP) — Everyone has known New Orleans is a sinking city. Now new research suggests parts of the city are sinking even faster than many scientists imagined — more than an inch a year.
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The research, reported in the journal Nature, is based […]
Anybody who reads here knows that Polimom’s biggest political concern by far is the polarization of America. The wings (sometimes politely referred to as “the bases”) of both parties are skewing things out of proportion, paralyzing the political system with expectations that can only be called pandering, and creating a truly unhappy electorate.
So skimming around […]
Der Spiegel, a German magazine, has published a truly fascinating interview with Iranian president Ahmadinejad. Since I have no idea whether he speaks German, I’m assuming that his portion of the published interview (here) underwent two translations: Farsi to German, and German to English.
Even allowing for translation, though, there is some truly strange thinking going […]
After the last couple of posts, Polimom felt a real need to lighten up a bit.
Since there have been several stories recently about organized fighting (teens in Arlington, TX, and just lately the techno-geek warrior wannabes), I decided to post about this strange propensity to violence that sometimes manifests in the lucky possessors of the […]
Polimom recently asked AC what she thought happened first after 9/11, and I was completely unsurprised to hear her say that we’d gone into Iraq.
Now, AC is nine, and to a child, the 3+ years of the Iraqi War is the normal state of affairs. The rest of us, though, remember Afghanistan, the Taleban, and […]
Since my last post, I’ve been unable to write. It isn’t that I have nothing to say (that’s hardly ever true), but my thoughts are swirling… unfocused, and what follows here is a bit of a jumble. Sorry.
Politics has a way of bringing out the worst in people, and I’ve read some really ugly stuff […]
Last week, Rep. Murtha made statements about an investigation into murders of civilians by US Marines in Haditha, Iraq (Army Times):
The Marine Corps originally claimed that a convoy from the Camp Pendleton, Calif.-based Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, hit a roadside bomb that killed Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, 20, of El Paso, Texas, and […]
Today is the last day of school for AC and all her excited classmates. We’ll have the annual Bestowing of Awards in the morning, followed by a party / picnic at a nearby neighborhood pool.
What that means for Polimom (or at least, for the blog) is that I’ll be totally unplugged from current events, news, […]
Polimom’s trying to imagine a situation in which I would consider selling AC (Adorable Child):
Nunn and Bryant allegedly expressed interest in Devon when they saw him with his mother, Dominique Calloway, at a store Saturday. Calloway, a single mother, said earlier this week that one of the women, believed to have been Nunn, offered to […]
Folks, I just posted this as part of a comment on yesterday afternoon’s post about the immigration bill:
And yes, many of the folks coming across our southern border are uneducated and appallingly poor. Anything we manage to put together in terms of long-term plans (including partial integration) is really an investment in their children. […]