Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
Well, it’s not quite New Years here yet, but it will be soon. Most likely I’ll be in bed by then. Hope you all are enjoying the calendar odometer change.
Here’s hoping 2010 will be better than 2009. … or 2008 … or 2006 … or 2005 …. or
heck now I’m all depressed….
Articles like this getting published in science journals.
An excerpt:
ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere.
This is the true [...]
So as the new year approaches I can’t help but reflect back on the year gone by. And as usual I look back and kick myself over the things I wanted to do but didn’t do. That includes work things, family things and spiritual things, but this post is about hobby things.
I have too many [...]
OK, since everyone seems to want to know, the first decade of the third millenium does not end until Dec. 31, 2010, just as the second millenium did not end until Dec. 31, 2000.
But that won’t stop anyone from doing their “top ten of the decade” lists…
That’s because people tend to look for patterns, and [...]
I know that schools today still have tetherball poles up, but from what I can see when driving by the schools during recess, they are rarely used.
Back when I was in elementary and junior high (now called “middle”) school, tetherball was a rite of passage. We had six or eight tetherball poles in most of [...]
… unknowingly…
The article is called “The neuroscience of screwing up”. It’s about how scientists are human beings, and as such conform to a status quo and reject evidence that is counter to their preconceived notions. The hilarious thing is that the writers of this article have just explained exactly how and why climate science has [...]
Yeah, Cutler looked like an all-pro tonight. Gotta give him credit. Favre almost led the big comeback, but this time it wasn’t the Bears who fumbled or threw the game away. This opens things up a bit in the NFC. Now there are three teams who could end up with a first round bye. If [...]
Sweet sixteen, I suppose…. Well, Saints lost. Broncos lost. Eagles won.
But the Cowboys won and secured a playoff spot anyway. Chances are good that Dallas and Philadelphia will play twice in a row. Using the logic that it’s tough to beat any team twice in a row, I suppose I should root for them to [...]
So, just saw the Sherlock Holmes movie. I went in with low expectations having been a big fan of the Sherlock Holmes stories since I was a kid. But I had already told myself to expect this Holmes to be more of an action hero than a cerebral one.
And that’s what it turned out to [...]
So, I followed a link from Instapundit to Pajama’s Media “Hair of the Dog” and followed that to “Hawtness – The Women of WTF” where I stumbled across this photo…
How does someone even imagine that this would be a cool photo? How does it end up BEING a cool photo?
So, watched a couple of movies on Christmas. Sandra Bullock’s “The Proposal” and the bizarre bachelor party movie “The Hangover.”
The Proposal had its moments, but wasn’t nearly as funny as I had hoped it would be. I am a Sandra Bullock fan, she strikes me as a very grounded and decent person. I also think [...]
I don’t know how much I’ll be online the next few days, so Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you all have a great time.
(I’ll probably get some flak for posting this, but this is just too perfect…)
Lately I’ve been in a real funk. I’ve let things go that I really should take care of. I’ve been finding it hard to get up the energy to do simple things, and relatively difficult things like rebuilding a closet have totally exhausted me.
I think I finally figured out why. I’m seriously, deeply and profoundly [...]
For decades, in fact for my entire life, I have listened to Leftists trash America and promote anti-capitalist dogma. The main thrust of their effort has been to say that there is nothing special about America, that Americans are ignorant, unsophisticated and easily led to foolishness by greedy, unscrupulous leaders.
After just one year of Barack [...]
Wow, as much as I thought Jay Cutler was over-hyped, under-matured and under-performing, even my most pessimistic estimates would have had Jay performing far better then he actually did this year. With two meaningless games to go for his 5 – 9 Bears, Jay is mired in the bottom rung of quarterbacks by virtually every [...]
OK, two weeks left in the regular season. If I were an NFL official, I’d be jumping for joy right now. Probably 2/3 of NFL teams are still in the running for a playoff spot. In the AFC in particular, since Denver improbably lost to Oakland, six teams are now in position to make a [...]
OK, so I’ve been considering buying a new computer for a while. My existing computer has gotten so bad that it crashes every five or ten minutes now, no matter what I’m doing. So I put together a list of best options for laptops and desktops and I’ve sorta been keeping it in my pocket.
Well, [...]
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