You're right, it is all your fault
I enjoyed the mea culpa recently published by Dale McFeatters, the conservative Scripps Howard columnist. He admitted in his February 15th column that global warming and the hatred of the Arab world...
View ArticleSeveral Rants About Non-contiguous and Inconsequential Things
I've written things on Kos in the past, but that's been tapering off lately. Frankly, the writing here is getting too damned good and substantive. How is a no-talent hack supposed to compete with...
View ArticleVoting Machines are Still Suspect - Sarasota
I'm mostly happy at the results from two days ago, at least nationally. But I just wanted to add a story about my voting experience this time. I'm voting in Sarasota, Florida, where, as most of you...
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Why Can't U.S. Wind Power be like this? [Update]
I'm not a wind industry financier, as is Jerome a Paris . .I'm just a fan of sustainable energy. I have been for 30 years. I tend to follow the news on these things. And while I like the way things are...
View ArticleNon-Conformity Among the Conformists
There was a very interesting piece posted on the New York Times site yesterday from Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens called "The Evangelical Rejection of Reason". They fairly accurately describe what...
View ArticleBush asks for $51.8 Billion more
OK, let me get this straight. Our government is going to spend $51.8 billion MORE of our money helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina, ostensibly to make themselves look like they're doing something...
View ArticleCA Million Solar Roof initiative dies on last day
At the risk of not writing about the Hurricane Katrina fiasco, I'd just like to mention that another fiasco has just occurred in California. Undoubtedly most of us here recognize that there is at least...
View ArticleAll those American mpg Poseurs
I recently saw an article in the USA Today about the rising tendency of American car buyers to consider gas mileage as an important factor when choosing a new car. Â (The article is a couple weeks old,...
View ArticleIt's going to snow soon
"It's going to snow soon." I had a nice visit this past Saturday with my favorite Aunt. My Mom's sister is named Ann, but I always knew her as Keresthmama, which is 'Godmother' in Slovak. It was always...
View ArticleHarold Evans on the state of US television news
The BBC World Edition has a commentary from former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans that begins ostensibly as a review of the new film about Edward R. Murrow called "Good night, and good luck". But it...
View ArticleThe irresponsibility of GM's leaders
The corporate leadership of General Motors needs to be reintroduced to the concept of 'personal responsibility'. . . not the Republican version of that phrase, but ours. You know . . .the American...
View ArticleListening to Liars
Do you remember back in the days of innocence that were the time before George W. Bush became the president of the United States? Back when, although we were often cynical about politicians and...
View ArticleYou're right, it is all your fault
I enjoyed the mea culpa recently published by Dale McFeatters, the conservative Scripps Howard columnist. He admitted in his February 15th column that global warming and the hatred of the Arab world...
View ArticleSeveral Rants About Non-contiguous and Inconsequential Things
I've written things on Kos in the past, but that's been tapering off lately. Frankly, the writing here is getting too damned good and substantive. How is a no-talent hack supposed to compete with...
View ArticleVoting Machines are Still Suspect - Sarasota
I'm mostly happy at the results from two days ago, at least nationally. But I just wanted to add a story about my voting experience this time. I'm voting in Sarasota, Florida, where, as most of you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why Can't U.S. Wind Power be like this? [Update]
I'm not a wind industry financier, as is Jerome a Paris . .I'm just a fan of sustainable energy. I have been for 30 years. I tend to follow the news on these things. And while I like the way things are...
View ArticleNon-Conformity Among the Conformists
There was a very interesting piece posted on the New York Times site yesterday from Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens called "The Evangelical Rejection of Reason". They fairly accurately describe what...
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