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What follows is a rant.  I cannot help it, as I saw Joe Lieberman’s sanctimonious face grinning at me on site after site yesterday.

Have at it.

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,…

Since I’ve had to delete an enormous amount of garbage the past two days, unleashed by the  “Climategate” post, I want to go over MY rules for posting on this blog once again. First, personal attacks are out.  I occasionally fail here myself – I called “Low Key” “spam,” for example.  These are emotional issues.…

There will be a Blogathon” this weekend featuring a great many scientific experts as well as leading voices warning of global warming who are not themselves scientists.  I recommend anyone seriously interested in this issue pop in to look around.  The issue does not rise or fall on the basis of competent or incompetent code.

It rarely freezes in Sebastopol.  But ‘rarely’ is far from ‘never,’ and we have been hit with an unusually cold series of days, with temperatures getting into the 20s and teens.  My favorite coffee place, Hardcore, had its pipes freeze.  Happily Molly, Hardcore Espresso’s  wonderful owner, simply brought up the coffee van, and we could…

I’ve received some emails asking me what I know about “Climategate” – the alleged scandal exposed when thirteen years of emails at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, UK, were hacked, and disseminated by right wing sources.  The hacked emails certainly demonstrate unethical and secretive behavior by some of the key…
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