Sidreal has conceived of a rather elegant and clever way of depicting one’s stance on the issue. Still too complex for sound-bite, energize-the-base politics, but very useful for quickly understanding the nuances (and there are many) to an individual’s position.… Continue Reading
Prof. Shaun Martin writes of the Supreme Court affirming the death penalty for Richard Davis, who is Polly Klaas’ murderer: It doesn’t take much to figure out what the California Supreme Court’s going to do in this one once the… Continue Reading
First of all, read this editorial from a thirteen-year-old girl from a villiage about twenty miles from Ottawa. She’s articulate, appropriate with her emotion, and demonstrates enough maturity of understanding that others have and are entitled to a point of… Continue Reading
Sorry, Matt — Oprah Winfrey would not make a good Supreme Court Justice. Sure, she has compassion, and yes, she’d be a reliable pro-choice vote. Having a background in the entertainment industry, she may have some understanding of copyright and… Continue Reading
Seventeen-year-old Tyler Frost went to a Baptist high school in Findlay, Ohio. He has a girlfriend who goes to the local public high school. Tyler wanted to go to his girlfriend’s prom, but the religious types who run the school… Continue Reading
Physicists, armed with high-speed cameras and lasers and stuff, say, “It looks like a curve ball, but the ball’s trajectory is, actually straight.” Pitchers and batters both insist, “No way, the damn thing curves.” Here’s a demonstration of why the… Continue Reading
Tinyfrog gives an example of how callous and uncaring nature really is. There are crater lakes in Africa which, by accident of their altitude, geographic situs in calderas, and the geology below them, trap immense amounts of pure gaseous carbon… Continue Reading
The Wife likes it when I’m clean-shaven. I kind of enjoyed having a mustache and goatee, but she’s the one who has to kiss me so I scrape off the facial hair and almost every day. It grows in pretty… Continue Reading
So last week I drove up to Stinking Bakersfield and, as is my custom, I stopped at a fruit stand on the way back to get some fresh produce so as to salvage some value for the time spent on… Continue Reading
From Alan Stewart Carl at Donkelphant: But, really, the skeptics’ fixation on proving the science false is just a symptom of the greater issue — namely that a lot of people are concerned that action to reduce CO2 emissions will… Continue Reading