December 10, 2009
Lies, damn lies, global warming

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 […]

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December 7, 2009
The insanity begins

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 […]

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December 7, 2009
“The Gathering Storm”

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 […]

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December 1, 2009
Climategate

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 […]

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December 1, 2009
Timing

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, […]

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November 30, 2009
A new start

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 […]

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November 24, 2009
You’re kidding, right?

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 […]

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November 23, 2009
Letter of the day

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 […]

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November 23, 2009
But the doctors were so sure…

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 […]

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November 23, 2009
Will CNN fact-check this?

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 […]

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