There’s a recent article in the Boston Globe about how opposing views on global warming are being squashed at — of all places — MIT. MIT’s Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology Richard Lindzen recently complained about the “shrill alarmism”
Month: August 2006
Terrorist in San Francisco
You may have noticed in the news that a San Francisco resident by the name of Omeed Aziz Popal went on a murderous hit-and-run spree that killed one person and injured a dozen others. His drive culminated in front of San Francisco’s Jewish
Hillary for President?
This is probably reflective of popular opinion…
Insulting Comments about Famous Athletes
Another good set of quotes from StrangeCosmos.com… “McEnroe was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.” – Clive James (about John McEnroe) “Beyond the hair, tattoos and
Fox Newsmen – Ransom
You may have heard or read that the two kidnapped Fox newsmen were released by the Palestinian Hamas… You may not know that they were released based on a convoluted deal which entailed their public conversion to Islam, the newsmen making anti-American statements on video,
Russian Solves Historic Math Problem – Update
According to an article in CNN, a reclusive 40-year-old Russian scholar has won the math world’s version of the Nobel Prize for solving a very difficult math problem… Perhaps more interesting is that Grigory Perelman shunned the Fields Medal and the associated
The Changing Face of Warfare
Daniel Pipes writes an interesting summary with links to articles on the subject: “Warfare in recent decades has turned historic assumptions upside down. Countries used to be the enemy; now regimes are the enemy, while their subject peoples are our
Glaciers Have Been Shrinking for 100 Years
A recent article in Breitbart describes how the glaciers in Greenland have been melting for over 100 years. The study from Danish researchers notes, “70 percent of the glaciers have been shrinking regularly since the end of the 1880s at
How to Negotiate with Terrorists
This is a good one from Hurricane Harry that I’ve included in its entirety: A peacemaker walks up to the left side of a line. A terrorist walks up to the right side of the line. The peacemaker introduces himself. The
New Preamble to the Constitution
This is an interesting one that I received from Mark Clower… It’s been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Aye from Georgia, but I cannot vouch for its validity. “We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help