After seeing all the support "Brownie" got, no one qualified wants the FEMA job.

Seeded on Sat Apr 1, 2006 9:30 PM EST (The New York Times)

This is pretty embarassing to the Bush administration. Every single one of the most experienced emergency management experts they approached to run FEMA turned them down.

katrina, bush, fema, homeland-security, michael-brown, us-news, michael-chertoff, dhs

Every Child Left Behind

Seeded on Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:14 PM EST (The New York Times)

Apparently, in order to meet the testing goals for reading and math set out in the No Child Left Behind Act, many underperforming schools are offering reduced instruction in every subject other than reading and math.

bush, testing, education, math, reading, us-news, no-child-left-behind, standardized-test

Helen Thomas takes Bush to task for Iraq

Seeded on Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:10 PM EST (Talking Points Memo)

Here's a transcript of Helen Thomas's exchange with President Bush in yesterday's press conference. She calls him on the fact that every one of the justifications for going into Iraq has turned out not to be true, then he tries to twist facts to deny it.

bush, iraq, white-house, politics, president, war, press, al-qaeda, wmd, press-conference

Dell! It's good for porno!

Seeded on Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:24 PM EST (@!$%#shutup.net)

I'm sure this is exactly the sort of endorsement Dell wants. Of course, who watches QVC at that hour?

technology, porn, television, computers, dell, advertizing, drunken-phone-calls

Unwed fathers encounter problems challenging adoptions

Seeded on Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:04 PM EST (The New York Times)

I'm struck by a couple of tidbits in this article. First off, even the fathers who do put themselves on the appropriate registries before the deadline get burned if the mother takes the baby to another state for the adoption.

adoption, us-news, parents-rights, unwed-parents

Consumers Surveyed about iTunes Movie Service

Seeded on Thu Mar 2, 2006 12:00 AM EST (Apple Insider)

$9.99 per month for all you can download movies? If enough people hook those new Mac Minis up to their TVs, it just might have Netflix quivering in their boots.

netflix, technology, apple, ipod, itunes, movies