Keith Ellison: Muslim
Keith Ellison, newly elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota, converted to Islam while in college. Virgil (not so) …
Monthly Archives: December 2006
Glacier Melt: Water Crisis
We read from time to time that ice-pack melting in Antartica and Greenland will lift sea levels into the sewers …
Traditonal Values Coalition Continues Tradition of Deception
David Lazarus, the SF Chronicle’s business columnist, continues his valuable work looking at business and economic life with facts and …
Google Cheat Sheet
No politics. No commentary. Just a good tool. Google Cheat Sheet
War
“On the next floor below are the abdominal and spine cases, head wounds and double amputations. On the right side …
Commentariat Moronicus
I mentioned the hapless duo of Brooks and Friedman appearing on Press the Meat on Sunday. Here’s more. On yesterday’s …
Columbia: Para Military Politicos
$700 million US taxpayer dollars poured into Colombia in 2006 — most of it for the military, most of that …
Environment: Season Shift
You can say what you want about the San Francisco Chronicle and its propensity for lurid, full color ledes, and …
Environment: Baiji Gone
The news finally percolated up to the western media from China The baiji is Functionally extinct. Lipotes vexilifier is the …
Sick Senator
I have to admit, when I first heard that South Dakota’s Senator Tim Johnson had a stroke or heart attack …
Evolution: The Milk Maid’s Story
With a trip to the Galpagos two weeks away I’ve been reading the exhaustive Janet Browne biography of Darwin and …
Nuclear War: Avoided, Barely
Idly following links from one article to another I came across this 2002 article about the 1962 October Cuban Missle …