by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 13, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
“Now, I should have said that the American people behaved remarkably well in the weeks and months after 9/11: There was very little panic, and much more tolerance than one might have feared. Muslims weren’t lynched, and neither were dissenters, and that was...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 12, 2011 | Asides
“He slapped metal cuffs on my wrists and pushed me off the plane. The three of us, two Indian men living in the Detroit metro area, and me, a half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife living in suburban Ohio, were being detained.” Some real Shock and Awe: Racially...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 12, 2011 | Asides
Printer is still INCORRECTLY reporting that the optical photoconductor needs to be replaced, bounces in the Dock every time I print, and is just plain annoying. It’s a brand new printer Apple, not likely that the photoconductor needs to be replaced.
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 11, 2011 | Asides
Update: Appears to have been some kind of caching issue in Chrome… — Uhm… Isn’t 10.3.183 greater than 10.0?
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 11, 2011 | Wanders
Great NYTimes article on one of the hiking trails up the front of Mount Beacon. Well worth the effort. In Beacon, N.Y., Hiking the Path of the Incline Railway | via NYTimes.com
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 11, 2011 | Asides, Featured
One of my favorite songs from the 80s, which I find to be amazingly appropriate today… I AM AN EMOTIONAL MANby Mark Heard. in the primal jungle streetswhere the sky is smotheredtwo-legged creatures breathe and eatbruising one another i wish i’d never been...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 11, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
“Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror… The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.” – Paul Krugman I...
