Entries from March 2007

Our food supply is not safe

Date March 23, 2007

And neither is that of our pets. This is what comes of defunding regulatory agencies and allowing companies to merge and aggregate resources.
Both of our cats are fine and do not appear to be showing any signs of illness. As recommended by the vet, we’ve been feeding them dry kibble as a morning meal [...] Read more »

But I’m already scatterbrained

Date March 23, 2007

Do visit Olympus Mons and read Emily’s recent post on materinity, “Bregnancy Prain”:http://olympus-mons.com/2058/. It seems there are a lot of things about pregnancy that people never seem to get around to telling you. I expect it’s worse for kids in school now, where most of the education seems to be about hiding information from you [...] Read more »

Alban Eilir

Date March 21, 2007

Spring is officially here; today is the vernal equinox.
Many of the neo-pagan religions — and some of the ancient ones, as well — recognize holidays at these important points of the calendar. The equinoxes (equinoxii? Firefox spellcheck says “no.”) and solstices mark four of those and are frequently called “quarters.” Then there are four [...] Read more »

Executive privilege

Date March 21, 2007

Fact: President Bush claims he was not involved in the plans to fire US attorneys.
Fact: President Bush says he’ll invoke “executive privilege” to prevent members of his administration from testifying in this manner.
Now,
the Supreme Court’s position so far has been that Presidents have a right to get expert, candid advice and information from staff [...] Read more »

Low performer

Date March 20, 2007

Following on to
yesterday’s post, one of the “low performers”
appears to have been Patrick Fitzgerald, the person investigating the Valerie Plame case.
I am guessing they ultimately decided firing him would be too much to get away with. Read more »