Author: Dave

Yep. No doubt about it. Your President is lying to you. At least according to the Japanese during WW2. June 29, 2007: U.S. troops have been mystified at how differently the war they fight in Iraq is portrayed by the U.S. media back home. Most just shrug it off as “politics,” and yet another reason…

Roni has more fine art at Underground Studios. He lives in Rockford, Illinois and is a friend of mine. About the artist. Cross Posted at The Astute Bloggers

I have made one of my periodic visits to the Netscape blog where today’s topic is Anger At the Gas Pump. A topic already covered here. So the topic drifts to Nixon’s wage and price freeze. We have an economic genius who says the policy was really nice but didn’t last long enough. farmerman has…

My friend Sgt. Mom, from the Daily Brief has an idea and some chapters of a book she wants to get published. She needs your help. I’ll let her explain: So here’s the story, of a blogger (me, of course) who wrote a long multi-part essay a couple of years ago about an incident in…

In America a “gas war” is a price war. Fuel stations compete for customers by lowering prices. In Iran the “gas war” is caused by a government mandated sudden jump in fuel prices. The Spirit of Man blog has a round up of the gas wars in Iran with pictures. It appears Iran is burning.…

Did you know there were principles of forecasting? I don’t mean like the positions of the planets. Which for time spans of tens of thousands of years is fairly mechanical. The kind of forecasting I’m talking about involves events that are less deterministic than the motions of the planets. And yet there are principles. The…

Some of the conspiracists over at Volokh were discussing the Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case that the Supreme Court decided. Basically they said that if you intentionally skip school and show up at a public event with a “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” sign a 10 day suspension for the sign is not unreasonable because school…

Ann Althouse is looking at what makes Mike Nifong or as I expect, the soon to be JailFong, different from other prosecutors? Was it the elements of the case: sex, athletes, strippers, and a hooker? Or was it his behavior? Which got me to thinking. The whole Drug War is prosecutorial misconduct. We now know…

I’m working with a bunch of folks at NASA Space Flight blog trying to turn the concept invented by Dr. Robert Bussard, the Bussard Fusion Reactor, into a practical research reactor to test the concepts involved. What is striking about the people working on the project is that we have every one – from a…

It seems that in Canada telling the truth in school can get you suspended. Kieran King got in trouble with his school for doing research on marijuania (on line, not personal) and telling the truth about what he found. On May 30, Kieran, who is described as “research-obsessed” by his mother, was chatting with friends…

Roger Pielke Sr. has a few complaints about the comprehensiveness of the research papers used to prepare various IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports have the following stated goals: “A comprehensive and rigourous picture of the global present state of knowledge of climate change” and “The…

The University of Chicago sent my mate and I a generic College survey asking generic questions about our opinion of our son’s college experience. We come to the usual race class and gender questions such as: This college is a place where… students of all religious backgrounds can feel welcome people of all economic backgrounds…

Well what do you know? Marijuana can stop lung cancer. The administration of THC significantly reduces lung tumor size and lesions, according to preclinical data presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Los Angeles. Investigators at Harvard University’s Division of Experimental Medicine reported that THC inhibited…

Chris wants some help: American Express is having a contest to fund one idea to “make the world a better place”. They have received several thousand ideas, and will pick the top 50 (in their opinion), and then let people vote to pick the best. The top idea will be funded for between $1M and…

I visited the site of the world’s first atomic pile CP-1 (which stands for Chicago Pile One) while I was in Chicago for my son Jonathan’s graduation from the University of Chicago. There is a Henry Moore sculpture at the site. I hugged it and climbed in it to commune with the gods of energy.…

Jonathan Richard Simon, the grandson of Esther Simon and the late Manny Simon, son of Michael and Sandra Simon, and brother of, David, Jason, and Camille Simon graduated from the University of Chicago on June 9th, 2007. His degree was in Slavic Languages and Literatures – with Honors. Jon was elected to Phi Beta Kappa…

Dr. Robert Bussard talks about how to change the world and it only takes three minutes. For a deeper look at this technology: Bussard Fusion Reactor The video at this one is deep on physics and lasts an hour and a half, however the last 30 minutes has the implications. The three minute video is…

There seems to be a lot of global warming porn going around. We have examples of porn addicts publicly confessing and swearing off their addiction. And others can’t get enough. A confirmed “CO2 is rising and we are all doomed” fellow cites the following articles on the drastic consequences of man’s interference with the air.…

I was doing some browsing around at Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre’s blog and came across a comment from Steve saying the discussion of astrology in relation to climate science was banned. Well you know me. I can’t resist a challenge. OK. I’m going to bite the astrology thing and risk banning. It seems that reliable…