Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
Forget “Fore!” “Fire!” was the cry of the day for a golfer whose off-target swing sparked a 12-acre blaze in Southern California. The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday. On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough [...]
At least 18 mushroom-lovers have been killed in accidents while hunting for their favorite fungi in the mountains and forests of northern Italy. via Mushroom hunter “massacre” claims 18 lives in Italy – Yahoo! News.
So, Obama has clearly been irked lately by a large part of the American population. According to polls almost 1/3 of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, and a similar number believe he has something to hide about his birth. Obama’s flippant response was “I can’t walk around with my birth certificate plastered to my [...]
Plans for sending humans to visit an asteroid are heating up, with at least one company already scoping out the technological essentials for a deep space expedition within a decade, given the go-ahead. The asteroid space trek is seen as both scientifically valuable and as a dress rehearsal for a Mars mission, NASA officials have [...]
A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming. It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof. The review by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) was launched after the IPCC’s hugely [...]
I’ve been warning about this for years. I’ve called this the “dirty little secret” of electric vehicles. In the extreme this will drive desperate owners to dump their cars in an attempt to defraud insurance companies. As electric cars become commonplace, the degradation of their hyper-expensive battery packs will cause huge drops in value after [...]
So I worked my butt off last week on this presentation I have to do for our senior leadership today. I was up ’til well after midnight twice, and had to defer a scheduled personal day off to get it done. It’s only four slides and I’ve only got ten minutes to do it. Wish [...]
Now I know that virtually everyone has had a moment like this where your brain takes a couple of seconds to engage and you look like a fool. But just imagine, imagine if George W. Bush had been stuck in a gate for a few moments while trying to get an umbrella through the gate. [...]
It was so chilly this morning that I put on a sweater to work in my home office since I didn’t want to turn on the heat in August. When the sun finally broke through the trees, I went and lay down on the deck to allow the warmth of the sun to drive away [...]
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