Like wikipedia articles, breaking news stories are best left to sit and smoulder until the facts come out. Yesterday, I passed along quotes from an AJC article concerning the arrest of a British historian for jaywalking. Well, there’s another story today, with the officer insisting that he used an “excessive amount of discretion.” Here’s the …
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There Is No Hope…
…as long as journalists use phrases like this: (from the NY Times) Referring to a new test rocket by Blue Origin (an experimental spaceflight company). When the company performed the first test launching on Nov. 13, it made no announcement. And that was it, pretty much, until last week, when the Blue Origin Web site …
Big Pharmaceuticals Aren't Evil Dictators?
In a post about the current regulatory environment around medial care today, In The Pipeline is maintaining the the NYTimes seems to be adopting a conciliatory attitude toward big pharma. I have no idea. I personally find this post interesting because of the quotations he digs out of the original NY Times article. Q. Wouldn’t …
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Why You Shouldn't Recommend Books
I have given up taking book recommendations from the masses. I am a quick reader, but I won’t read things if I don’t like them, or if they don’t entertain me. I have developed opinions about novels over the course of my reading career and I don’t like to force a novel past my eyes. …
Harriet Klausner
You learn new things every day. Not necessarily useful things, but things. Possibly, these various items may pop up in a bar quiz someday. I can only hope. Today’s thing is Harriet Klausner. This was clued to me by one of SFSignal’s various tidbit posts. This post lists a comment train that has been continuing …
War on Christmas
There is a new perpetrator in the media-hyped “War on Christmas.” This “new aggressor” (as mentioned by The Moderate Voice) is shamefully ignoring its own conservative base, the very ones who initiated and continue to perpetuate this mythical “War.” I need to “use” more “quotations” in this entry to make it seem more “visual”
Polar Ice Albedo and Ponderings
I’ve been reading (not exhaustively) Realclimate.org since it popped up on the 2006 Best Science Weblogs nominations. I like science blogs that stretch what I know about topics, yet are not so far past me that I can’t make heads or tails. This entry I find cogent and fascinating. It reminds me that topics such …
A Traitor to her Sex
This evening on NPR’s All Things Considered, Nadia Colin (spelling uncertain) of Texas was quoted saying that women shouldn’t be elected president. She said, “Coming from Texas, I think the majority of us feel that with a male leader we feel safer. I would not vote for a woman president, ever.” It is the year …
Winter Solstice
At 00:22 GMT on December 22nd, the world will celebrate once more its free annual trip around the sun. This equates to 18:22 (6:22 PM EDT) 19:22 (7:22 PM EST) December 21st for those of us sitting on the east coast of the United States. To commemorate this occasion, and its companion solstice during the …
Dating Ad Seen on Fark.com
You can join this site, because there are over 11,000,000 members, and every single one of them is a girl under 25. It’s too bad I didn’t grow up in hornysville like these women. I chose to remove the name of the site. You can go to Fark and maybe it will still be there.