Month: August 2006

Hurricane Ernesto aimed at Gulf

The water N of the Yucatan are some of the warmest in the Gulf. Ernesto gets over that water, and that storm will be Cat 4 or 5 within 36 hours. If Ernesto gets to that water N of the Yucatan, there should be immediate mandatory...

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CT-Sen: Why Joe Lieberman will drop out

(cross-posted at Deny My Freedom and Daily Kos) What could I have possibly been thinking? Listening to Joe Lieberman’s defiant non-concession speech on August 8, I honestly believed that he was going to be a very...

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Frivolous Friday Open Thread

Oh, thank God: Tokyo’s subway has refused permission for an advertising poster featuring a nude and heavily pregnant Britney Spears, branding it “too stimulating” for young people. The picture of the pop singer...

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