A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
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There is no way I will let the Bush Administration off the hook for the botched response to the after-the-disaster catastrophe in New Orleans. However, I will make these concessions for him, as well as Brown and Chertoff. Even though the president seemed clueless while touring the devastation (telling survivors that they should go to … Read More “Sympathy for the Devil” »
Still more distressing news from New Orleans. I’ve had to pull myself away from Daily Kos just to get my work done. It’s becoming more and more apparent that the Bush Administration and it’s Republican lemmings are completely out of it. Of course, Baby Bush himself seems more concerned with the oil supply than the … Read More “Unrest in the Big Easy” »
Watching the news about the aftermath of Katrina is morbidly addictive. Emotions run the gamut from being appalled to feeling helpless, to feeling thankful for everything that we have (coupled with a healthy appreciation for how quickly it can be taken away.) I don’t think our modern society has witnessed a disaster of this proportion within our borders.
OK, here’s the second gas rant, after I promised not to do it again. At lunch yesterday gas was $2.35 in Duncan. I knew I needed to fill up, but figured I was OK until time to come home. By afternoon, the price had risen 24 cents to $2.59. Scary.
I’ve been resisting a gas price rant. Really, I have.
After my rant in The Cruelest Cut, I figured a follow-up was in order…
Well, there I am. Right on the front page of the Greenville Cage liner, with a somewhat bewildered look on my face, and a quote from me about County Council continuing to approve building projects that will adversely affect the flooding situation in our neighborhood. One of our neighbors contacted Representative Gloria Haskins, who arranged a meeting with county officials, DOT, and several others. About 30 of us crowd
Speaking of strange things in churches, the lunatic right wing group, Christian Exodus, made the front page of the Greenville News again. This group is trying to get other ultra-right wingers to move to South Carolina so that it can secede from the Union (again) and form its own Christian Theocracy.
Since switching over to WordPress, I got my first spam comment. It keyed off the phrase “Fantastic Four” and provided a link to a site where surfers could purchase movies (and probably get their computers locked up with malware.) It was easy enough to delete before it ever saw the light of day, but I worry about how much more of this junk to expect. Back when I had my own home-grown site, spammers couldn’t figure out how to get bots to interact with it, so I was relatively safe. Such is the downside of using an open-source editor.
I returned home from Philly to find that our neighborhood had flooded – again. The torrential rains we had while I was away landed our street in the news just about every day. It doesn’t take torrential rains. Just a normal rain will produce a large pool at the end of our stream in which … Read More “Flooding Fairfield” »