Read all about it here: "The Odds of Airborne Terror".
Labels: airplane, statistics, terror
Josh finally lives in Maine again
after four years at Boston University,
a stint in Southern California with
Walt Disney Feature Animation,
and two years in Dubai, UAE,
where he created and wrote
Newlywed in Dubai.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Apparently one has a 1 in 16.5 million chance of being on a flight with a terrorist. Huh.
Read all about it here: "The Odds of Airborne Terror".
Read all about it here: "The Odds of Airborne Terror".
posted by Josh at 12:43 PM |
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Uh-oh. Hadn't heard this before - the Detroit, um ... pants ... bomber spent time in Dubai: "Abdulmutallab Spent 2 1/2 Months in Dubai".
According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was studying in a master's degree program at the Dubai campus of the University of Wollongong of New South Wales, Australia.
Imagine if he'd been at AUD in the MBA program a few years ago ...
According to this article in the Wall Street Journal, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was studying in a master's degree program at the Dubai campus of the University of Wollongong of New South Wales, Australia.
Imagine if he'd been at AUD in the MBA program a few years ago ...
Labels: Dubai, terror, Wall Street Journal
posted by Josh at 3:14 PM |
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A fantastic end-of-the-decade review, and my thoughts exactly on Rudy Giuliani: "The End of the 00s: The Most Disturbing Sense Of Gratitude".
Key quote:
Key quote:
- This is one of the very grimmest things about remembering that grim, grim day. For the rest of my life, I think, whenever I see Rudy Giuliani’s face on the television or in a magazine or wherever, along with all the anger and disgust and other appropriately negative emotions, I will remember again, and feel a sense of gratitude. And that sucks.
Labels: 2000s, September 11th, terror
posted by Josh at 10:46 AM |
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
Frank Rich has a terribly harsh essay in yesterday's New York Times on how Tiger Woods sums up this year / decade of illusions and fakery.
He touches on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, Enron, Barry Bonds, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, Ted Haggard’s megachurch, and more.
Oddly one connection he never makes, even after paragraphs about both Enron's fakery and Accenture's ditching of Woods as spokesperson, is that the two are (albeit tenuously) connected. Accenture had been part of Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that dissolved due to its role in the Enron scandal.
Either way, it's a fascinating read of what was quite a decade: "Tiger Woods, Person of the Year".
He touches on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, Enron, Barry Bonds, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, Ted Haggard’s megachurch, and more.
Oddly one connection he never makes, even after paragraphs about both Enron's fakery and Accenture's ditching of Woods as spokesperson, is that the two are (albeit tenuously) connected. Accenture had been part of Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that dissolved due to its role in the Enron scandal.
Either way, it's a fascinating read of what was quite a decade: "Tiger Woods, Person of the Year".
posted by Josh at 2:30 PM |
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Finally! An article about Dubai in the Wall Street Journal that's not about their crushing debt!
"Dubai Faces Higher Terrorism Threat In 2010".
Oh crap.
"Dubai Faces Higher Terrorism Threat In 2010".
Oh crap.
Labels: 2010, Dubai, terror, Wall Street Journal
posted by Josh at 7:26 AM |
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