Famine in Ethiopia. Again.
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Society | No Comments »It breaks my heart to hear the stories of starving children in Ethiopia. Thanks to drought, failed crops and rising food prices, Ethiopia faces a return to the 1984-85 famine that killed more than one million people. The Big Picture ...
Minnesota: The Muslim Frontline
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Society | 3 Comments »Is it me, or is Minnesota some kind of flashpoint for Muslim conflict? There were the Muslim taxi drivers refusing to carry alcohol, there were the six Muslim imams booted off a U.S. Airways flight, there was the charter school ...
Death in Many Forms: Cyclones and Cancer
Friday, May 9th, 2008 Posted in 6 O'clock News, God, Church & Stuff | No Comments »Last week Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar (aka Burma) and officially killed at least 22,980 people with another 42,000 missing, 1 million homeless and unofficial estimates expect the death toll to top 100,000. Those kind of numbers, like the 2004 Southeast ...
The Food Riots I Didn’t Know About
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in 6 O'clock News | No Comments »Did you know there were deadly food riots in Haiti last week? And in several other countries around the world. The U.S. closed the embassy in Haiti, banned official travel, is discouraging civilian travel and encouraging U.S. citizens already in ...
Westboro “Church” Picketing the Bridge Collapse Funerals
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 Posted in 6 O'clock News, God, Church & Stuff, Twin Cities | No Comments »I've never wanted to throw up so badly in my entire life. At the same time, I've never wanted to take up arms so badly in my life. The infamous 'God Hates Fags' group from Westboro Baptist "Church", led by Fred ...
Blame I-35W Bridge Collapse on Pigeons
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Twin Cities | 3 Comments »Here's a new theory for the I-35W bridge collapse--blame the pigeons. Apparently "piles of pigeon guano" may have impeded inspectors from discovering the true state of the bridge: Heaps of corrosive pigeon droppings obscuring parts of the bridge's steel supports have ...
Armchair Quarterbacking the I-35W Bridge Collapse
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Twin Cities | 5 Comments »The armchair failure analysis that's happening in the wake of the I-35W bridge collapse kind of makes me laugh. We've had good stretch of 90+ heat in the Twin Cities, therefore the bridge couldn't handle the expansion and collapsed. Please. In ...
Trapped Bridge Collapse Victims
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Twin Cities | No Comments »This is insane and heartbreaking: Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan said cars are still trapped beneath the water under crumpled concrete and that some bodies are in there. During rescue operations Wednesday night, divers saw victims in submerged cars as darkness postponed ...
I-35W Bridge Collapse Aftermath: What Can We Do?
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Twin Cities | No Comments »It's the next morning and the dead/injured toll has risen (9 dead, 60 injured, 20 missing). I'm feeling a similar kind of shock I felt after 9/11 (though not nearly as extreme), where I can't tear myself away from the ...
I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis Collapses into Mississippi River
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 Posted in 6 O'clock News, Twin Cities | No Comments »Wow. Breaking news as the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour, sending as many as 20 cars into the Mississippi River below. From the pictures it looks like the entire length of the bridge fell, not just one ...
