Brian Gongol




Yulia Tymoshenko (who even has an English-language website) has been nominated as prime minister, and it looks like Viktor Yushchenko (the president, and a sometimes-on, sometimes-off rival) is going to accept her in the job

They're planning to spend $400 billion over the next 20 years to expand production capacity. Who wants to go to war and risk destroying that kind of investment?

Another example of how infrastructure capacity is most important during extraordinary events -- like roads during a mass evacuation, or hospital beds during an epidemic


Ice and snow storm in Iowa cut off food supplies for lots of Canada geese that had been hanging around well past their normal departure date, creating a migration that's always pretty fascinating to watch from the ground