More (sub. or ad req.) on the question of when a “secret” is not really “secret”: In the past, the annual review was made public immediately on request. But policies implemented in 2003 granted agency employees widespread discretion to mark documents “official use only,” delaying or preventing the release of many documents once routinely made …
I’ll probably lose whatever dirty hippie cred I had left, but this is the car I lust after – Carroll Shelby’s Cobra. I mean, not just the car Shelby designed, but the one he designed for himself: “It’s a special car. It would do just over three seconds to 60 (mph), 40 years ago,” Shelby …
Quiet MorningOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. It’s quiet Saturday morning in Albuquerque, the sort of quiet you get when a light blanket of snow dampens the sound and keeps everyone inside, including the dogs. We’re going to be in trouble today when the mailman comes. There’ll be no dogs out to protect us. music: Django (the …
I had a college chum named Brian Muir who was a serious Deadhead. During those years I was working in radio, as was Brian, and it was a tossup as to who was forced to deal with more offensive music. I was working for KEXI – “the valley’s entertainer” – a station that played “adult …
I’m crossposting this from the NukeBeat because I think it would be insanely cool to be the number one result when you google “radioactive animal carcasses”, and this blog has more googlejuice. No, that’s not an early ’80s British punk band. It’s the amusingly grotesque harvest of a nuclear waste cleanup project at Hanford: Carcasses …
When is a secret not a “secret”?
“Life is easy. Showbiz is hard.” – Bill Griffith update: OK, this is really amusing, the way the Zippy picture stretches down to the entry about drought in the west. Pray with Zippy!
weather: Looks like we’re on the El Niño one-storm-a-week track here, with another wet patch headed for New Mexico through the weekend. This’ll be the fourth in a row. book1: Andrew Revkin’s The North Pole Was Here. Don’t be fooled by the whole “children’s book” thing. It’s a ripping good read, and Revkin has clearly …
This is one of those Prufrock moments, when it is impossible to say just what I mean. From the paid job blog, on my old friend Ed McGaffigan: Reporters depend on the generosity of smart people, people who understand how things work and are willing to spend the time to help us understand it too. …
In which Malcolm Gladwell gives his less-well-paid brethren a nice slap on the back: We’ve spent a lot of time, post-Enron, criticizing the flaws in the investment community’s gatekeeping activities. But I think we should also recognize what the Enron case tells us about the value of newspaper journalism. Maybe, in other words, we have …