Here’s a interesting radar view of Fed Ex fligths arriving as a thunderstorm approaches. The last time I was in Memphis, I was amazed to see all of the Fed Ex planes lined up in the sky. Fed Ex has an amazing operation.
Monthly Archives: May 2006
The War Hero v. The Bureaucrats
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Pity poor Eddie Rickenbacker. His life so closely resembled the clich
Using Hookworms to Cure Asthma and Hayfever
The NY Times list of Summer Movies
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Sex, Lies, and Prison
For the past six months, I’ve been staring at a 30-pound box filled with court documents and what’s left of a young man’s life following one college night and a 5- to 15-second disputed sex act.That is, 5 to 15 seconds into the act of sexual intercourse, she said, “Stop.”
He stopped immediately.
She claimed rape.
Thus, before his 23rd birthday, Rich Gorman of Orlando, Fla., was locked behind bars in the Liberty Correctional Institute near Tallahassee, serving a five-year sentence for sexual battery.
One minute a junior at Florida State University majoring in business/computer systems, the next a prison inmate labeled a sex offender.
NASA Announces Plan To Launch $700 Million Into Space
The Onion’s AV Club’s Take on the Summer Movies
Soda Butte Creek
I’m reading Alston Chase’s book Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America’s First National Park. The book is a pretty damning critique of the Park Service’s management of Yellowstone.
