Sighted, a clutch of rare birds : neocon hawkus gallus

I went kayaking in the salt marshes of Sea Island, Georgia last Thursday. The departure point was the Cloister Hotel. While kayaking, we saw some beautiful sea birds (all illustrations from other sources):

Brown Pelican

Snowy Egret

However, the rarest birds were seen immediately after leaving the salt marsh. As walking through the hotel lobby, I spotted an entire clutch of neocon hawkus gallus, more well known as the "common chicken hawk."

Karl Rove

Bill Kristol

In retrospect, the sighting wasn't that rare or spectacular. Rove and Kristol were in "their natural habitat." Really, is there a better location to troll for right-wing groupies? They could impress potential mates by crowing about the hosting of the 30th annual G8 summit.

It's just too bad these birds are still allowed to so freely and casually wade about. They barely got their feet muddy at all-- the public has such a short memory. In the end, no one paid the price for the outing of Valerie Plame; no one paid the price for the lies leading to the Iraq war;
or for violating the Geneva War Convention; or for being active participants in nearly causing the

collapse of the entire foundation of the world financial system.

It's just too bad they continue to enjoy their "natural habitat," when they should all have been cast out, and many should be doing time in another habitat instead, a federal prison.

Recently on WBUR's On Point on NPR

These recent discussions were very interesting.

Feb 16, 2010:	unemployment inequality. The unemployment rate varies by pay scale: 3% unemployment for the highest paid vs. 30% for the lowest paid.
Feb 23, 2010:	More discussion about the stalled plans for national health insurance.

On Feb 21, 2010, this related content:

The New York Times also covered long term unemployment and people trying to cope using only the thin social safety net that remains after over 20 years of cuts, Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush.

Slackware 13.0 on Samsung NC10

I finally got around to installing Slackware 13 on a Samsung NC10 netbook. Read this post, hosted on another site.

screenshot

Devotion to Duty

xkcd

Well, that's what it takes to get above 5-nine reliablity.

Peek-a-boo!

My blog post hosted on another site.

Telluride : At the front in the war of currents

My blog post hosted on another site.

Install Grub Bootloader

Here is my recipe for installing the grub bootloader, for the nth time.