Nick Bradbury: Current Affairs

Tennessee Storms

My family can be counted among the lucky ones who escaped the full impact of last night's storms here in Tennessee. For a while, we weren't sure we'd be so lucky. Just after 9pm, a tornado siren less than two miles from our subdivision sounded off, and stepping outside I heard what sounded like a jet plane roaring overhead. We... [read more]

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 in Current Affairs, Personal | Permalink | Comments (5) | Incoming Links

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84. Vonnegut's blend of dark humor and moral vision made his novels among my favorites. Discovering Vonnegut's work was like finding a kindrid spirit, and I'm sad to see him go. (Via Brent Simmons). [read more]

Wednesday, April 11, 2007 in Current Affairs, Personal | Permalink | Comments (7) | Incoming Links

Torn on Iraq

I have been opposed to the war in Iraq since day one, but unlike many who are against the war, I do believe that the threat posed by Islamic extremists is one we should take seriously...but taking the battle to Iraq was a colossal blunder, made worse by the deception used to justify it. [read more]

Thursday, January 11, 2007 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (27) | Incoming Links

Hate Mail

OK, I'm used to getting an assortment of smear-laden campaign flyers around election time, but today my mailbox is practically stuffed with them. Only one of the mailings even mentioned what the candidate stood for - the rest were filled with talk about the "questionable values" of the other candidate. It's getting increasingly rare that I vote for someone instead... [read more]

Monday, November 06, 2006 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (6) | Incoming Links

What is happening to my country?

Rob Fahrni is right: while it could've been worse, this is still a mistake. One of many. Way too many. It stuns me that so many people are still kowtowing to this insult of an administration. I hope that when my kids are older, they look back at this period in our history as an aberration rather than as the... [read more]

Friday, September 29, 2006 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (45) | Incoming Links

NSA Demon

This morning one of my FeedDemon watches turned up this WashingtonPost.com article about the NSA's harvesting of phone records. My watch was for the keyword "FeedDemon" so I was surprised to see this article turn up - and I was even more surprised to see that the article listed FeedDemon among the software tools used by the NSA. Based on... [read more]

Monday, May 15, 2006 in Current Affairs, FeedDemon | Permalink | Comments (6) | Incoming Links

Trouble in Paradise

Last week my family spent several days in a very nice all-inclusive hotel about an hour's drive from Cancun, Mexico. It was great to get away, and as with most vacations I take, I deliberately avoided watching the news (choosing instead to relax under the sun with a good book). So it was a complete surprise to discover that a... [read more]

Monday, February 27, 2006 in Current Affairs, Personal | Permalink | Comments (5) | Incoming Links

New Orleans Outrage

I've made it a practice to avoid political commentary in this blog, but this goes beyond politics, and I can't hold my voice. Regardless of where you reside in the political spectrum, I have to believe you're as angered as I am with the way our government - both local and federal - handled the foreseeable disaster that hit New... [read more]

Friday, September 02, 2005 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (22) | Incoming Links

Katrina

I've been in Denver most of this week, and like much of the world, when I wasn't working I was glued to the incoming stream of news about Hurricane Katrina and its awful aftermath. Lately I've been stressing about my pending surgery, but now I'm aware of how small my problems are in contrast to the problems borne by the... [read more]

Thursday, September 01, 2005 in Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (0) | Incoming Links