Did you know that Fox News is a liberal news organization? Not because it’s part of the so-called liberal media, but rather because Fox is based in the liberal bastion of New […]
Brooks: GOP loses professionals to Democrats, including bankers
NYTimes commentator David Brooks is not my favorite commentator by a long shot, but I find his occasionally scathing looks at his fellow conservatives to be remarkable. Today commentary (“The Class War […]
Painting a target on ourselves
A post of recent vintage (2006), though, sadly, still timely. Imagine that you live in a nation whose armed forces kill the civilians of other nations — too many to maintain the […]
The Weekly Carboholic
A new study by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and reported in the Asahi Shimbum (English edition) says that Russian permafrost has been melting deeper and faster than previous […]
King Hip is no more: Joe Zawinul, 1932-2007
A music giant has left us. Josef Erich “Joe” Zawinul—who established a new school of music with Miles Davis and led the seminal Weather Report with Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, et al.—passed […]
Decarbonizing the Carbon Economy
Until the development of water and wind power, humanity burned carbon-based fuels like wood and coal to power our civilization. These very same fuels are now polluting the air and water with […]
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