Mike A. suggested this very interesting piece: Planning traffic routing in no-notice disasters [1]. The article begins: “Spontaneous evacuations of New York City and Washington, D.C. following the 9/11 terrorist attacks demonstrated that U.S. cities are not prepared to manage the sudden influx of traffic into roads and highways following a no-notice disaster.”
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Mike T. sent this: Zithromax (azithromycin): FDA Statement on risk of cardiovascular death [2]
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News headline: San Francisco to rename street after Pelosi [3]. JWR’s Comments: Go ahead and call me “stodgy”, but I think they’d be safer waiting until she expires–or at least until after she leaves public office–to go naming streets or battleships in her honor. After all, you never know when a sitting senator or congresscritter might come down with a bad case of Tom DeLay-John Ensign-David Vitter-Gary Condit-Duke Cunningham-John Edwards-Chris Dodd-Eric Massa-Fred Richmond-Gary Hart-Charlie Rangel-Albert Bustamante-Mark Foley-William J. Jefferson-Dan Rostenkowski-Wayne Hays-Gerry Studds-Mario Biaggi-James Traficant-Buz Lukens-David Wu-Mark Souder-Anthony Weiner Syndrome and hence be forced to resign in disgrace. So this could be a bad idea, and difficult to reverse. (Just ask the folks in Milltown, New Jersey, that still drive down Pétain Street [4], or anyone who lives on Ernst Thälmann Strasse [5] in Dresden.) Oh well, at least the San Francisco pinko politicos don’t plan to re-name the entire city Pelosigrad. [6] (At least not yet.) By the way, I still haven’t forgiven them for renaming Army Street after a far-left labor leader [7].
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With absolutely no relevance to preparedness whatsoever, I offer this incredibly cool musical video link: House of The Rising Sun – Musical Tesla Coils [8]