Today was spent mostly reworking some chapters on my 60s, Culture War and Divine Feminine manuscript.  The advantage of coming back to a basically finished piece after a couple of months is that I can look at it with new eyes and see places where I can make it better.  The disadvantage is that I…

Around one hundred thousand innocent Iraqis  have been killed during the Iraq War, possibly considerably more. How many is 100,000?  Let us assume the average corpse is 5.5 feet tall. Laid end to end the bodies would stretch 104 miles and a bit more.  Here in California they would stretch from San Francisco to Sacramento. …

Walking in the rain down to the autoteller to get some cash, I saw Sebastopol’s regular demonstrators, one group against the latest war, the other supporting our troops, standing on the corner where the cash machine stood.  Not in the mood for politics, when I noticed the bank was nearly empty I walked inside before…

A retired physicist friend has sent me a NYT piece by John Tierney on the stolen emails and accusations of impropriety issue.  Included was the extensive discussion of his column by readers from different perspectives.  By current standards Tierney is an exceptionally intelligent conservative writer with a significant bias towards the global warming deniers who,…

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