20Oct/090
Links of the Day, October 20
Love xkcd.
News
- Hamid Karzai agrees to a November 7 election run-off.
- Apparently, the Department of Defense is also against Al Franken's anti-rape amendment ... what?!
Green
- Toyota unveils a larger hybrid, the "Sai."
Sports
- Mariners catcher Kenji Johjima opts out of his contract to head back to Japan. We'll miss you, Joh!
Miscellaneous
- Andrew Sullivan assesses Barack's seemingly-sluggish pragmatism, and concludes it's all part of the plan.
- Tracking marriage and divorce across America.
- 3pm on Tuesday is the optimum time for an office meeting.
5Oct/090
Mariners, 85-77
Yesterday marked the end of regular season baseball, and the Seattle Mariners went 85-77, marking the biggest improvement from last year in the major leagues. After losing 101 games last year, let's just say that expectations were fairly low. But rookie manager Don Wakamatsu did a phenomenal job in leading us back to respectability.
Even though we didn't make it into the postseason, it was a good year. Thanks to the folks at Lookout Landing for keeping me company through 162 games.
Here's to Felix for the Cy Young. And for the playoffs, I'll be rooting for my (other) hometown Dodgers.
15Sep/092
Links of the Day, September 15
News
- Patrick Swayze passes away.
- Congratulations to Juan Martin Del Potro and Kim Clijsters, who overcame Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki respectively to win their draws of the US Open. And in baseball news, congratulations to Ichiro, who set a new record for consecutive 200-hit seasons, at nine.
Health care
- Meet Nikki White, one of the 18,000 who died from lack of insurance.
Immigration
- Eva Stimson's cover story for Presbyterians Today, "The faces of immigration."
- FactCheck.org looks into how H.R.3200 impacts undocumented immigrants.
Green
- So close ... and yet so far: the California Senate passes an ambitious renewable energy bill ... which Governor Schwarzenegger says he's going to veto.
18Aug/090
Links of the Day, August 18
News
- A water crisis may hit Asian food sources.
- Heptathlete Jess Ennis won a first ever gold in the event for Great Britain at the World Championships in Berlin.
- Dustin Ackley, the Seattle Mariners' first round draft pick, inks a deal. (Also, Stephen Strasburg, the first overall draft pick, signs with the Washington Nationals.)
Human trafficking
- A trafficking ring is busted in Missouri.
- Sex trafficking in London rises ahead of the 2012 Olympics.
Health care
- CBS looks at how the French do it ...
- Jon Stewart tackles the muddy messages from the White House.
Miscellaneous
- A Washington Post op-ed on why we should legalize drugs.
- DNA evidence can apparently be fabricated now.