Bad and Worse

Is it better to lose as a team or lose as an individual? I’d pick the first. You?

Un-Patriot Act

(AP) PORTLAND, Ore. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause.U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, “now permits the executive branch of [...]

Flyboy Andrei? No Way!

So it turns out that Andrei Shcherbakov, age 15, wasn’t actually flying on the wing after all. He wasn’t flying under the wing either. He was flying inside of the wing, or right beside, the wing.
All planes have wheels, as you very well know. But where do the wheels go after the plane takes off? [...]

Flyboy Andrei – Update!

“Eventually, I decided to climb up the landing gear into the wing. When I was in, I sat down there on a tyre and fell asleep.”The boy said he woke up when the plane was flying.
Teen survives ride in jet wing | Herald Sun

More updates from yesterday’s story! Now that seems very unlikely to me, [...]

Flyboy Andrei

MOSCOW, September 24 (RIA Novosti) – A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after riding the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday.
RIA Novosti – Russia – Boy survives two-hour flight to Moscow hanging onto plane wing
One wonders how he [...]

Amends to a Philosophy

The grass is always greener on the other side…

(mzhao on Flickr)
…until the grass on this side is sufficiently watered.