Just a few quotes about the Scooter Libby fun....

From here:

It's true that the Constitution grants the president unlimited clemency and pardon power. But presidents have generally used that power to show mercy or, in rare cases, make political amends -- not to protect themselves from exposure.

From here:

On September 30, 2003, just after this ( Read more... )

Everyone remember to see Sicko! It comes out today! I saw a sneak preview a while ago and I thought it was pretty good. I liked it way better than the 9/11 one and I liked it better than Bowling for Columbine, too. Basically, health care is broken, and while he doesn't give the answer to how to fix it, he does give a lot of info about the ways in ( Read more... )

Just read Gioia's commencement address for this year at Stanford. I really liked it, actually. Here are some of my favorite parts:

Adult life begins in a child's imagination, and we've relinquished that imagination to the marketplace.

Of course, I'm not forgetting that politicians can also be famous, but it is interesting how our political process ( Read more... )

Talking to Paly people - remember Ephrat Bitton? She was my year and I had math class with her and we were even on AYSO soccer team together one year (she was better than me heheh) but anyways I haven't seen her since graduating and then I click on this article in BBC news and suddenly run across her name! Talk about crazy coincidences. Guess she's ( Read more... )

I finally got myself an account at www.kiva.org - I kept wanting to get one but I was like "I am so poor" but I finally decided I'm not THAT poor and did it. I have been fascinated by microlending ever since going to the SAID development conference my freshman year and learning about it. I really want to know the effect of organizational structure ( Read more... )

There are so many things wrong with this that I just had to post it. Full text below:

WMD found - in the Atlantic
By: Steve Benen on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 5:07 AM - PDT

The good news is we’ve found plenty of WMD. The bad news is the weapons are ours and we found them dumped in the sea.

It is no ( Read more... )

I´m pretty sure this is what a pregnant woman must feel like. I have never had a very keen sense of smell but now when I walk through the streets I get either strong feelings of disgust or of hunger when I pass different food smells. I haven´t had very many foods that I had to avoid because I got sick (either flu sick or drank-too-much sick) so ( Read more... )

aww stil don´t feel very good. better than before but tired all the time and eating is hard. suddenly I am really curious to know how the digestive system works because it affects me a lot more now than ever before, never really cared before, I could eat anything. but apparently here everyone gets sick based on the weather, like right after it ( Read more... )

Yeah so I always find it intriguing to look at characters who don't like Bush, whom we have a knee-jerk reaction for in the US like Castro and Chavez, and especially while I'm here I like to get an idea of what Mexicans think of them. Because I get the feeling that I am not learning the entire truth in the US. However, while I am interested in many ( Read more... )

So I was doing all right for two weeks but I knew eventually I´d have to get sick. Not sure exactly what it was but I felt pretty sick all Sunday and then finally around 11pm I needed to throw up so I went to the bathroom and the next thing I remember is being over the toilet doing my business, and once that was done I was kinda like ¨why am I ( Read more... )