Archive | July 8, 2010

Cleveland: farm team to the world

Well, the “suspense” is over.  LeBron is joining the international party circuit in Miami. I, for one, am glad it’s over.  I’m not glad LeBron’s leaving, but the hoopla was getting to be a bit much. For those of you not in Cleveland, you may have missed the Cleveland Orchestra concert on Public Square last […]

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WordsDay: Merchants of Doubt

What do the following things all have in common: tobacco safety and the dangers of secondhand smoke, the Strategic Defense Initiative, acid rain, the ozone hole, global warming, and the recent attacks on Rachel Carson (author of Silent Spring)? According to the new book by science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Merchants of […]

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