Katrin is a twenty-three year-old with a six year-old’s face. The first time I met her, I watched her drink neat rum without wincing. I couldn’t tell if it was responsible for the moisture in her eyes. The second time I saw Katrin we were at a squat party, both wasted. She was high up, […]
Archive | May 6, 2011
"Can women save the world?" – by comedian Lee Camp
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S&R Poetry: "Cold War Lies," by Mark Todd
“We choose … to do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – JFK’s moon speech, 1962 He snaps off the transistor voice, choosing the hard things, more concerned with politics in hand: the rigged feel of a borrowed boat, the smile on a borrowed wife –
Say it wasn't so: 30-Day Song Challenge, the Sequel, day 5 – your favorite song for driving around town with the top down
The summer of 1986 has lodged itself in the pleasure centers of my brain, although a hard look at the details makes me wonder why. Yeah, I was working in what passed for a cool job for a kid who’d recently graduated from college (copy and production manager at a rock radio station, albeit one […]
Venus’ climate V: How scientists know Venus’ surface temperature is a result of greenhouse heating (corrected)
On Monday, I wrote that there were only two possibilities for why Venus’ surface temperature is so hot – either something internal to the planet’s crust and core was keeping Venus hot, or something about the atmosphere was. Tuesday I showed that it wasn’t internal heating. Wednesday I disproved the “Venus formed recently” hypothesis. And […]
S&R Honors
Click here to learn more about past honorees...- Atheists in heaven? Vatican spin machine leaps into action
- I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure
- UPDATED: Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie
- Magic Hat vs. West Sixth brewhaha: will MH win the battle that costs them the war?
- WordsDay: Postmodernist Xerism at it most discontentedly hopeful…
- Mystery Unraveled: How a white, moderate, married, churchgoing, middle-class, middle-aged woman could vote for Obama
- An open letter to Burt Rutan, regarding his WSJ commentary on human-caused climate disruption
- Meet the men of Match.com: Really, guys, are you serious?
- Climate scientists still besieged
- Pelosi on Bush: “He’s not worth impeaching”
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Samuel Smith: No one hurt - that's the best news in all of this.…
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Atheists in heaven? Vatican spin machine leaps into action | Scholars and Rogues: […] we reported on the latest from Pope Fran…
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Bret Higgins: The last three Bridge issues, well, only three sin…
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