collapse

Pat Buchanan sees another opportunity to seize the promise of the post-Cold War peace-dividend:

Engineers are worried about the possibility of "immediate collapse" of a building off the public square on East Depot Street that has been deemed unsafe for human habitation by the City of...

I've been posting Jim Lydecker's stuff here for since May, 2007; check out the archives for the older posts . I came to realize a long way back that everything he says here is undeniably true, except for those lost in a delusional haze, or those who have a vested interest in fostering that haze in others.

A column in the New Yorker Magazine argues that Barack Obama will have some position shifting to do sooner or later on his signature issue:

Breaking news alert on Twitter: "The Georgia Department of Transportation says a tunnel in Gordon County, underneath the northbound lanes of I-75, has collapsed."

More as this develops.

The New York Mets fired their manager, Willie Randolph, yesterday, as the team with the highest payroll in the National League has a losing record (34-35) 2½ months into the season, and this comes after the Mets' colossal collapse last September.

Here’s a little meme deal I picked up on and thought I would give it a go. Heads or Tails provides a theme to write about on Tuesday. Today the theme is “jobs” - about my job or one I have had.

I'm told they'll be here Sunday morning, my mother, father, sister and her husband.

I still have no couch. I just unpacked the last of the boxes from the move. I didn't go get a haircut.

If you do nothing else today, I recommend watching Elizabeth Warren’s lecture on the Coming Collapse of the Middle Class