This story is rather unnerving. I’ve heard stories about the earthquake of 1812 — it rang church bells in Boston from its epicenter along the Mississippi River along Tennessee — and don’t expect a repeat of it to be exactly pleasant. It would be interesting to watch this story and see how exactly the pressure is building up, if the scientists can figure it out any time soon.
UPDATE 6/22/05 10.19PM: Read this if you want to feel better about natural disasters. And worse about everyday life.
I don’t have much to say on this article, but it is very interesting.
If you don’t feel like registering with the New York Times to read it though, I’ll understand.
After saying some stuff that could be interpreted as comparing American soldiers to Nazis, Senator Durbin has finally apologized. I find it interesting that it took him a week to do so. The article suggests that he was receiving flak mostly from the blogosphere and “conservative talk radio hosts.” Is this another example of a Democrat on the national stage figuring the media will cover for them and then getting a nasty suprise from the newer, nontraditional media? There may be an element of this, but I rather suspect that it’s more of a case of elements of the mainstream of Democratic political thought hitting the actual political atmosphere in the country, and simply bursting into flame.
It seems that a U-2 spy plane has crashed in the Middle East. It’s interesting to speculate on which country this is, as the only two countries between the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan are Pakistan and Iran. I rather suspect it is Pakistan, as there are American security forces on the ground, but the military doesn’t want to release the country name because of “host nation sensitivities.” That matches the situation in Pakistan right now, and I rather doubt that Iran would allow a security team in to gather the wreckage. It’s always possible to speculate that it was Iran and that they’re under suspicion for shooting it down, and allowed investigators in to prove their innocence, but until more information is released, we can probably discount that story as being too unlikely.