2012 is an election year, a time when we make history together as a nation. Potential turning points in history often get tarred with false interpretations of history to sway an election, or worse, a… more →
Millard Fillmore's Bathtubwrote 2 weeks ago: As far back as July 2006 we were not just seeing the writing on the wall. Anyone who cared couldn’t … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: Can we tell bogus history from real history? The straight answer is, it’s often difficult. Ele … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: 2012 is an election year, a time when we make history together as a nation. Potential turning point … more →
wrote 1 month ago: I get e-mail from Bob Park, the physicist curmudgeon/philosopher at the University of Maryland (I … more →
wrote 6 months ago: ‘The carbon tax is empty symbolism…Voodoo science leads Australia down a dark path … more →
wrote 7 months ago: The nineteenth-century was as much a century of science as the twentieth or twenty-first. Major bre … more →
wrote 7 months ago: After much discussion, several self imposed false starts and an exceptional amount of procrastinatio … more →
wrote 9 months ago: John Abraham’s work ended up giving Christopher Monckton a bumpy ride into New Zealand, accord … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Sometimes in unexpected places you stumble across a factoid that makes sense out of a lot of other f … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Oh, not outwardly anti-Africa, but stupidly so. The extreme right-wing Heritage Foundation lashed ou … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Most of us know that the ‘climate predictions’ made by the likes of Al Gore, environment … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve got to stop looking over there. Goddard’s got a post up showing the great disregard … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The stuff NPR’s money guy said is rather pale by comparison. Fox News needs to act, and apolo … more →
wrote 1 year ago: This week, EPA bashing took front and center on the performance stage that passes as Congress these … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Tuesday morning, March 8, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Committee on Energy an … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In the last two weeks we’ve seen a virtual-world assault by Richard Tren, Roger Bate and Don R … more →
wrote 1 year ago: John Quiggin’s done with his book, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. Cove … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Alice and the Red Queen - illustration by Sir John Tenniel Alice laughed: “There’s no us … more →
wrote 1 year ago: This is a story about the persistence of bad information, and about the flow of news and other new i … more →