“To take people from the music world and give them the same kind of credibility that you give me, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Forest Whitaker—that’s like an aberration. I know there’s some […]
Nota Bene #99: Heed the Peace Gnome
“You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you’ve got music.” Who said it?
Judgment and the burnt weeny terror plot
Did anyone expect this Obama character to be such a card? I seem to remember speeches and quips about judgment and its importance in leadership. No quibbles about that, it’s true and […]
A nation of five-year-olds
You know that we’ve reached a new level of Sovietization when you’re treated to statements from the Transportation Security Administration claiming confusion to be all a part of the plan. If you’re […]
When more is less: "Redundancy" may actually reduce nuclear security
THE DEPROLIFERATOR — You’ve probably heard the word redundancy in its current embodiment. To refresh your memory, it refers to the duplication of the critical components of a system, such as an […]
Nota Bene #95: STFU
Gonna try something different
Walking like a pretzel
The National Security Archives at George Washington University recently published translations of Soviet Politburo meetings on Afghanistan. They are more illuminating than the combined words of America’s punditocracy that litter the nation’s […]
Insuring the world against climate disruption (Blog Action Day)
Imagine that in a few years you wake up to news reports on the radio that your town is under a flash flood watch. The ground has been so baked by the […]
The Weekly Carboholic: EPA Office of the Inspector General recommends EPA enforce Clean Water Act
EPA Office of the Inspector General recommends EPA enforce Clean Water Act Climate change lobbyists grow by 31% leading up to ACES vote New information suggests climate change accelerating glacial erosion Wind […]
The end of the world as we know it—Review: One Second After by William Forstchen
A bomb goes off high above the earth, and one second after, the world ends—not in a bang but a whimper. William Forstchen’s brilliantly disturbing book, One Second After, takes place in […]
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