Monthly Archives: April 2013

…actually, typing.  But won’t get that essay up and posted today. Don’t worry, it’s not that long.  But this was a maintenance day at work, thus very busy.  And I’m still acclimating to exercise.  So when I stop moving this evening, I … Continue reading →

Let me ask you two questions. 1) When compared with pre-1800s levels, do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant? 2) Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing … Continue reading →

My sleep apnea has gotten worse.  How desperate is the situation?  I’ve resumed exercise.  And I’ll probably need quite a bit of it, going to genuine tiredness or even outright exhaustion.  Haven’t cut back on TV watching yet, but did do it while … Continue reading →

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid really doesn’t like Tea Partyers.  So he set up an absurd straw man took a few feeble swings at those horrible, horrible “anarchists”.  It would be a pitiful display by a boy, much less a … Continue reading →

This is one of the most powerful, most awful things I’ve read. The root of the problem is that patients are not payers. It doesn’t take much tinkering to turn that truth into a “silver bullet” for mandatory socialism. The root … Continue reading →

Black baseballers are dwindling in numbers.  MLB (Major League Baseball—ed.) says about 8.5 percent of players on this year’s opening day rosters identified themselves as African-American or black. That’s around half the number from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s. So … Continue reading →

It’s important. We should ask Obama.  He speaks Austrian, right?

OMG.  This is Rubio’s press secretary, talking about America’s illegal immigrants foreign devils:   “We haven’t had a cohort of people living permanently in US without full rights of citizenship since slavery.” Riiiiight.  Because Jim Crow was Yankee slander of the … Continue reading →

That is, the rash of scientific puzzlement over the 15-year absence of global warming.  Well, I guess that makes it a non-heat rash.  Also, scientific should have been written as “scientific”.  Like right here. The warming standstill of the global … Continue reading →

Waaaaaahhhhhhhhh….heh heh…he he he HA HA HA! They’re hollering that 90% of the public wanted this thing passed.  Uh-huh, yeah.  Because if there’s anything that politicians like to do, it’s alienating nine voters for every one they accommodate. Also, did you … Continue reading →