Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
So, let’s say you are a GM of a NFL team and someone offers you one of the two following QBs based on statistics alone, after starting at least 9 NFL games, sight unseen… Which one do you take? (all stats normalized to a “per game” standard) QB #1 Total yards from scrimmage per game: [...]
Arg… so you would think that it would be simple to find a local supply of one of the most common materials on the planet… Gypsum is an amazing mineral. It is one of the softest minerals known, and is very easy to carve. Pounded into dust and mixed with water it can be poured [...]
SAN DIEGO — Tim Tebow wasn’t watching as San Diego’s Nick Novak lined up to attempt a 53-yard field goal that would have given the Chargers an overtime victory over the Denver Broncos. He was praying, of course. Did Tebow ask for a miss? “I might have said that. Or maybe a block. Maybe all [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has launched its next Mars rover, kicking off a long-awaited mission to investigate whether the Red Planet could ever have hosted microbial life. The car-size Curiosity rover blasted off atop its Atlas 5 rocket today (Nov. 26) at 10:02 a.m. EST (1502 GMT), streaking into a cloudy sky above Cape [...]
Climategate scientists DID collude with government officials to hide research that didn’t fit their apocalyptic global warming 5,000 leaked emails reveal scientists deleted evidence that cast doubt on claims climate change was man-made Experts were under orders from US and UK officials to come up with a ‘strong message’ Critics claim: ‘The stink of intellectual [...]
We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find. New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses. “Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event [...]
This could shake things up… Kyle Orton has been released by the Denver Broncos, meaning any other NFL team who needs a QB (and there are several who do) could claim Orton simply by paying the remainder of his contract this year. One team that could really use a proven QB is the Chicago Bears. [...]
With new releases of emails between the Global Warming collaborators. My favorite quote from the comments: It’s not that they are wrong in the science…that’s how science gets better. It’s that they are wrong in the ethics. That’s how science gets destroyed. I could not have said that better myself…
I have never been one for “mid-life crises”. I tend to be a sort of “just deal with it and move along” sort of guy. Of course I have challenges in my life to deal with, but most of them, well, all of them so far, have not ended up with me in some sort [...]
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