Posts by D. H. McKee

Urban Legend: “The Price Is Right” offered contestants a trip to New Orleans

True… Whenever disaster strikes a large, long-established city, inevitably one will find earlier references to that city in popular culture...

SpamRock 2005

Sent out the SpamRock invites tonight. Thought I’d better get a move on, since I’m cutting it a little close...

‘Racist’ police blocked bridge and forced evacuees back at gunpoint

A Louisiana police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to block a bridge over the Mississippi river and...

Cover-up: toxic waters ‘will make New Orleans unsafe for a decade’

Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade,...

A Nice Place to Film, but Heavens, Not to Live

The essential American soul,” D. H. Lawrence once wrote, “is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer. It has never yet...

Samsung Delivers 16 GB NAND Flash

Samsung yesterday announced three new technologies targeted at the expanding, multi-faceted mobile application industry. At a press conference held in...

Scientists Observe Most Distant Cosmic Explosion Ever Recorded

Astronomers have detected the most distant explosion ever witnessed in the heavens. It was a flash so powerful that they...

Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan

The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to...

How Bush Blew It

It’s a standing joke among the president’s top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in...

McGuinty government rules out use of sharia law

Seeking to end months of debate, Premier Dalton McGuinty now says “there will be no sharia law in Ontario” —...