Month: January 2010

  • They Should Be Paying Us

    You see that chart above? It was taken from an article on the missing carbon sink. The graphs in the chart show results for net CO2 emission or absorption from before and after the missing sink was found. Note the down arrows for North America? That means North America is absorbing more CO2 than it…

  • The Scott Brown Plan To Screw The Voters

    This is so depressing. Cross Posted at Power and Control

  • My beautiful “new” rice cooker

    This will seem like a self-indulgent and frivolous post, as I’m not one of those “here’s what I ate for breakfast” type bloggers, but I decided to write it anyway, because the technology involved has helped me, and I thought it might be of assistance to some of the readers. I like rice, and I…

  • Cratering

    Obama’s poll numbers are cratering. Gallup buries the lede in its latest polling on health care, the Browning of Massachusetts, and Barack Obama’s performance in the first year. They headline the fact that 55% of Americans want Congress to suspend work on ObamaCare while only 39% want Congress to continue. That’s not exactly news; it’s…

  • Sex, murder, it’s all the same, right?

    Ryan Mauro has a very thoughtful discussion of a TV show I’d never heard of in an essay titled “A Sermon Inspired by The Real World: Washington, D.C. — A bisexual Christian on MTV’s reality show illustrates the true meaning of the faith.” I don’t normally associate MTV with bisexual Christians (whom I assume could…

  • I know! Let’s Talk About Sex!

    I’ve been meaning to post for about a week, but unable to figure out quite how to make my first appearance at Classical Values. This is the equivalent of what I did when I was very young and spent several hours agonizing between two virtually identical outfits before a party. And then, yesterday, on this…

  • Not by PC alone!

    This is an ominous development, and I don’t think it’s being widely reported: WASHINGTON – Ex-cons who converted to Islam in New York and other state prison systems have turned up in Yemen as Al Qaeda terror recruits, a new Senate report says. The focus on ex-cons was part of an intensified effort by Al…

  • It Is Official

    NASA agrees with me on the nature of drug abuse. Initial low-level involvement with drugs may result from peer pressure, drug availability or other risk factors in an individual’s social or family environment. Subsequent escalation to and maintenance of higher levels of drug use is likely to result from biological, psychological or psychiatric characteristics of…

  • auf wiedersehen to hope?

    I don’t know what qualifies Germany or Germans as the world’s experts on American politics, but that seems to be one of the dominant memes these days. In a piece titled “Obama Mia” in the Wall Street Journal, I read about a loopy German musical glorifying President Obama, and promoting the personality cult surrounding him:…

  • “the strident, purist base”

    From Bill Clinton’s former White House special counsel Lanny J. Davis comes a good question: The question is, will we stop listening to the strident, purist base of our party who seem to prefer defeat to winning elections and no change at all if they don’t get all the change they want. As someone who…

  • Monkeying around with compromise

    Barnes and Noble keeps getting in trouble with people who want to boycott the store — not so much for selling the wrong books, but for improper placement of them. So I thought that in the interest of helping all parties laugh at themselves, I would try to come up with new and improved suggestions…

  • Tower Of Power

    Here is an interesting development that may be good for continuous output solar power. The company’s approach uses calcium hydride, a simple, non-toxic salt. Under Solar Fusion’s plan, solar heat is collected by an array of heliostats directed to a central down mirror, eliminating the requirement for a power tower. The heat, focused on a…

  • The Meaning Of Brown

    I left this comment (more or less) at Nate Silver’s 538 blog. He was a hoping for Coakley despite the shift that his stats clearly showed. Nate, Reminds me of what I said here about the Obama/Palin race. Bias is such a hard thing to give up. You lose some. You win some. The real…

  • Brown Vs Coakley

    The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis This is the funniest Jon Stewart I have evahh watched. Give it a view. Hillarious. H/T Larry Johnson at No Quarter Cross Posted at Power and Control

  • Newsflash! Ted Kennedy still dead

    In what I consider an early sign of optimism over the Coakley-Brown election results, CNN’s commentators don’t look happy right now. They are talking about early signs showing a Republican victory, while a stressed-out looking Paul Begala carries on about how Ted Kennedy would have won big. (So does that mean that if Brown wins,…

  • Massachusetts Radio Live Online

    Pick a station: Massachusetts Radio Live Online And listen to tonight’s election results live online. Drudge Has A Counter Up H/T on the Drudge counter to the gorgeous Pamela of Atlas Shrugs

  • A tale of two cities (and two sewers)

    I was a bit surprised to read that the City of Detroit is dumping raw sewage into nearby rivers and streams, because, well, that’s the sort of thing that’s not supposed to happen in advanced Western countries: Metro Detroit’s outdated sewage systems regularly violate the law by dumping raw and partially treated human waste into…

  • Inside the mind of a key Coakley supporter

    Before the race between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino had not been on my radar screen. Recently, though, his breathtakingly demagogic statements about the election forced me to pay attention. According to Menino, Massachusetts voters who support Scott Brown are doing so not because they want him to win (or because…

  • “conservatives hate gay people”

    While I have briefly touched on the CPAC kerfluffle (Liberty University’s Matt Barber and the boycott of CPAC over a gay conservative group being a co-sponsor), I really didn’t get into the specifics — especially about the gay conservative group, GOProud. However, for those who are interested, John Hawkins’ interview with GOProud’s founder Christopher Barron…

  • N987SA

    N987SA? What a cryptic title for a post. So let me start with September of 2007 and an airplane crash. According to several mexican newspapers, G-II reg. N987SA went down this morning in Yucatan, Mexico, about 20 nm from MID. It has been reported the plane was carrying 3.2 tons of cocaine. Mexican Air Force…