Categories: Current Affairs, Legal Nonsense, Mainstream Media Narcolepsy, War on Christmas, Why my God is better than your God (or your non-God)
2 Weather expert blogs from WeatherUnderground.com
by Graham 
Steve Gregory and Jeff Masters have continuously updated blogs on weatherunderground.com right now discussing the development, progress and likely track of Rita.
One thing to bear in mind is that the "official" published track predictions for Rita from… more »
09/22/05 05:11:09 pm, South Texas Storm Surge map now up at WeatherUnderGround.com
by Graham
This shows the possiblly affected areas of South Texas if Rita generates a Category 5 storm surge coinciding with its landfall. more »
How do US airlines manage to stay in business?
by Graham
This article from earlier this year in USA Today does a reasonable job of explaining how most of the major US airlines have managed to stay in business, despite many of them having been in Chapter 11 at least once in the last few years (and in some cases… more »
Track modelling for Hurricane Rita....
by Graham
....is available here. This is updated throughout the day. It shows predicted tracks from a variety of computerized atmospheric and weather prediction models. more »
Notice of Parental Rights
by Graham
Every so often I come across stuff on the Internet that boggles the mind...here is another example. The Texas Justice Foundation, which appears to be in the process of changing its name to the Justice Foundation (a great example of a swell-sounding name… more »
Somebody is playing the blame game all right...
by Graham
A think-tank funded by energy companies has already published an article blaming the Sierra Club for objecting to levees around NO.
The public should not allow themselves to be fooled by any debate on this topic. This is an attempt to box discussion in… more »
What would Frank Zappa have done?
by Graham
We live in turbulent and trying times...we have an unstable economic situation, an incompetent administration, my home state (Texas) has a brain-damaged legislature, education is a mess, and the US is currently fighting a war based on a faulty understand… more »
Katrina events timeline
by Graham
A link that lays out the significant events as the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfolded. more »
How can you tell when a country has been hit by a real disaster?
by Graham
Because suddenly politicians and pundits, instead of talking vaguely plausible nonsense, suddenly seem unable to prevent themselves from disengaging their brains and then uttering utter nonsense...
Part 1
Part 2 more »
Sometimes I just don't know what to make of political utterances...
by Graham
...clearly a politician whose definition of "cleaning up public housing" is rather more, er, dramatic than the norm... more »