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, […]
On a Saturday in early June 1994 I graduated from Cal Poly SLO with a degree in journalism and a passion for newspapers. Two days later I started work as a reporter at the 8,000 circulation, 6-day paper The Lompoc Record. For the next 15 years, I did almost everything you can do in a […]
Whomever the officer is who decided to press charges should be drummed out of the military. Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured […]
From Peter M. Hekman of San Diego, in The San Diego Union-Tribune re: nuclear power. Read the whole thing, but this is the paragraph that won it: I can factually state that more people died in the back seat of former Sen. Ted Kennedy’s car than have ever died as a result of an accident […]
This is downright scary. A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was conscious the whole time. Rom Houben, trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, described his real-life nightmare as he screamed to doctors that […]
It’s a little on the vulgar side, but “Saturday Night Live” went after President Obama again over the weekend. If you’ll recall, a month ago SNL attacked the president for failing to really accomplish anything – something that was so outrageous that CNN spent 10 minutes fact-checking the video. While it’s unlikely that there’s anyone […]