This is the grave of the unidentified victims of the Windsor Hotel Fire. The Windsor Hotel opened on 5th Avenue and 47th Street in New York in 1873. It was an elite hotel, the kind of place the rich would actually live. It was advertised...
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We are well past the point of saving the planet in any way that keeps much of its ecological integrity or species. We are at the point that we can,.
So let me tell you about my day yesterday. I am on one of my periodic trips to western Pennsylvania and I chose this day to do some exploring. If.
Horrible.
This can't end well.
Well, this is unfortunate... Via Chet.
A 6.1 magnitude aftershock has hit Haiti.
Galrahn, David Axe, and the folks at the USNI blog are closely covering US maritime assistance to Haiti. Both the USN and the USCG are on the way; the Coast.
It's hardly a surprise that the Coast Guard is doing excellent work in North Dakota. This post exists mainly because I had never expected to have the opportunity to write.
Three months ago, Robert Kaplan and (to a lesser extent) George Packer decided to try to use Burmese cyclone victims as props in Humanitarian Intervention III: Objective Burma! The argument was that SLORC, the junta that controls Burma, was so inept and mendacious that a...