If you haven’t yet been over to Anthony Watts’ site to read this piece by Willis Eschenbach I really do encourage you to check it out. It’s rather long, but Eschenbach demonstrates what climate “scientists” are really saying when they talk about “value-added data.” Eschenbach demonstrates that climate scientists are real fans homogeneity – they […]
Back in high school my liberal feminist history teacher did an excellent job of illustrating the worldview of the American Indians as they sold their land to European settlers – she offered to purchase the air above our heads. You see, the Indians couldn’t conceive of owning land any more than you or I can […]
This is a no-spoiler post I was a college freshman when I first read Robert Jordan's "The Eye of the World." That was 19 years ago. Over the past month and a half, I've been re-reading my way through Jordan's epic series which now stands at 12 volumes. It's the sort of thing you have […]
For the past couple of weeks the blogosphere has been buzzing over the “climategate” documents. I managed to download a copy of the documents, but work, reading for pleasure and Modern Warfare 2 have prevented me from going through them. Luckily, others have more time and more personal interests at stake. The analyses of the […]
Mere hours after I post about my sacking at the Union-Tribune and subsequent happiness in the Web/publishing business comes word that the person who sacked me is retiring. I’ll have to double-check, but I’m pretty sure that non-disparagement clause prohibits me from criticizing the U-T or its officers – but not its former officers. So, […]