http://www.warrensenders.com/journal Music, Education, Environment, Outrage, Absurdity, Politics, India Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:52:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I didn't want to write about, well, anything. But I found an article in TIME on a climate monitoring project run by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, and used it as the hook for a pretty standard screed. Compared to the crisis in Earth's atmosphere, the increased acidity of ... http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=2055 When I did a search on "Pakistan" on the USA Today site, the top three listings all concerned Angelina Jolie. Maybe I should write a letter to her.... They ran an AP story on a farmer who'd gotten badly whacked by the flood, so I hung this letter on that. Pakistan's ... http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=2052 The New York Times had a front page story on Pakistan and its misery. It's taken them a while. HATA SIAL, Pakistan — When the governor of Punjab Province arrived recently in this small town with truckloads of relief goods for flood victims, his visit was as much a political ... http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=2050 More thoughts & recollections from my life as a learner. College: As a college student, I was lucky; I did my learning through a now-defunct organization called Campus-Free College. Another CFC graduate described it nicely: Campus-Free College unfortunately no longer exists. It provided a fabulous opportunity for self-directed students (seeking bachelor and ... http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=2013 ...and the comments on my letter (August 28, IIRC) are an awesome repository of stooooooopid. Check it out. Third time this year in the Globe. Can the NYT be far behind? http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=2046 It's probably too late for this letter to be published, but I wanted to lend my voice to what I hope is a chorus of outrage triggered by Frank Rich's description of the unmitigated vileness perpetrated by the Koch Brothers. Frank Rich's takedown of the Koch brothers does not go far ... http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=2009 We appear to have dodged a bullet here on the East Coast. I sent this to my local paper, the Medford Transcript. This one got written early; I'm on my way to a family reunion and don't expect to be back till late in the day tomorrow. While it ... http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=2006 Mallikarjun Mansur, singing Ek Nishad Bihagada and Nat Bihag. http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=2004 The San Francisco Chronicle ran a short AP story on the UN Climate Commission's position regarding financial aid to poorer countries. The United Nations has the correct position on additional funding to poorer nations to aid them in coping with climate change. The facts are inescapable: the poorer the country, ... http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=1997 Since Bill McKibben is going to ask the President to put those damn solar panels up again, I figured I'd give him a little reinforcement. Dear President Obama, It's been thirty years since Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as President and set about undoing all the things that Jimmy Carter set in motion. Looking ... http://www.warrensenders.com/journal/?p=1991