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Feb. 15th, 2014 12:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* A volcano has erupted in Java, forcing tens of thousand people to evacuate nearby areas. It sounds like the government has set up temporary shelters. As terrible as it is three people died when their roofs collapsed under the weight of ash and gravel, I'm glad so many were able to make it to safety. Best of luck to the survivors. I haven't seen estimates of how bad the damage is or how many homes were destroyed. I will let you know when I know about relief efforts.
* The back room politics behind the debt ceiling raise this time is fascinating, but I simply haven't the energy to explain something this complicated when I am this tired.
* Similarly, a whole other misappropriation of federal funds scandal involving the Christie Administration and the port Authority in New Jersey has broken.
* Also, there was yet another coal industry spill poisoning a river in West Virginia and a related scandal with a politician still in the pocket of his former employer having repeatedly prevented that coal company ever having to pay for massive poisoning and polluting of water sources, let alone stop poisoning citizens in wild life. It's big and important, but the amount of work I'd have to do to present it properly makes me tired just thinking about it.
* "This is why we have two nostrils, rather than a single, large hole in the middle:" http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/researchers-reveal-a-3d-reconstruction-of-the-worlds-oldest-face/
* I did manage to get the long shelf up and start the kitchen reorganization, but so much still to do.
* "Sartre & Peanuts:" http://philosophynow.org/issues/44/Sartre_and_Peanuts
* Jake Lake on "Valentine’s Day:" http://jlake-feed.dreamwidth.org/399771.html
* A Love song for Valentine's Day. This is the song that I still think best captures the sensation of falling in love. I miss the people and the time it represents for me, so these days it is as much about mono no aware and the beauty of impermanence for me:
* As is the custom, my Anti-Valentine's Day song
* The back room politics behind the debt ceiling raise this time is fascinating, but I simply haven't the energy to explain something this complicated when I am this tired.
* Similarly, a whole other misappropriation of federal funds scandal involving the Christie Administration and the port Authority in New Jersey has broken.
* Also, there was yet another coal industry spill poisoning a river in West Virginia and a related scandal with a politician still in the pocket of his former employer having repeatedly prevented that coal company ever having to pay for massive poisoning and polluting of water sources, let alone stop poisoning citizens in wild life. It's big and important, but the amount of work I'd have to do to present it properly makes me tired just thinking about it.
* "This is why we have two nostrils, rather than a single, large hole in the middle:" http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/researchers-reveal-a-3d-reconstruction-of-the-worlds-oldest-face/
* I did manage to get the long shelf up and start the kitchen reorganization, but so much still to do.
* "Sartre & Peanuts:" http://philosophynow.org/issues/44/Sartre_and_Peanuts
* Jake Lake on "Valentine’s Day:" http://jlake-feed.dreamwidth.org/399771.html
* A Love song for Valentine's Day. This is the song that I still think best captures the sensation of falling in love. I miss the people and the time it represents for me, so these days it is as much about mono no aware and the beauty of impermanence for me:
* As is the custom, my Anti-Valentine's Day song