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Save the Light Bulb!
Monday, August 31 2009
By HOWARD M. BRANDSTON The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 will effectively phase out incandescent light bulbs by 2012-2014 in favor of compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs. Other countries around the world have passed similar legislation to ban most incandescents. Will some energy be saved? Probably. The problem is this benefit will be more than offset by rampant dissatisfaction with lighting. We are not talking about giving up a small luxury for the greater good. We are talking…
Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne
Monday, August 31 2009
By Mark Steyn We are enjoined not to speak ill of the dead. But, when an entire nation — or, at any rate, its “mainstream” media culture — declines to speak the truth about the dead, we are certainly entitled to speak ill of such false eulogists. In its coverage of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s passing, America’s TV networks are creepily reminiscent of those plays Sam Shepard used to write about some dysfunctional inbred hardscrabble Appalachian household where there’s a…
Look what life served up?
Sunday, August 30 2009
Ruth Ostrow | August 22, 2009 Article from: The Australian SITTING in a funky cafe in Melbourne recently on one of those trendy, long tables, I ended up sharing space with a young couple. The waitress came to take their order. The male, who I'll call "John", was the sort of person who could make a three-part mini-series from ordering a coffee. "Do you have decaffeinated? Is it water or chemically decaffeinated? Can I have it extra strong, and extra…
Probability and Global Warming
Sunday, August 30 2009
August 28, 2009 By Larrey Anderson Imagine we have gone to a movie made by a former politician (who is not a scientist). In the movie we are informed (1) the earth is warming exponentially. (2) Human beings have been and will continue to cause this warming because we release a natural gas (CO2) into the atmosphere. (3) There will be catastrophic consequences from the exponential warming that will occur as a result of this release of CO2. (According to…
The European-Libyan Game
Sunday, August 30 2009
IN A SPECIAL SESSION OF THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT on Monday, Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill repeated his explanation for why his government decided to release Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of terrorism charges in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988 caused the deaths of 270 people. Al-Megrahi, whose release from prison on Aug. 20 for “humanitarian reasons” (doctors give him only three months to live due to…
My Global Warming Epiphany
Friday, August 28 2009
By Randall Hoven Global warming is a complicated subject. It therefore takes a lot of hubris or ignorance to think you can explain either the "for" or "against" case in a few hundred words. But I stumbled onto some data that meets my "keen grasp of the obvious" threshold for understanding. Recall that we really need to answer "yes" to four separate questions before we join the Al Gore religion of "sign the treaty immediately or we will all die."…
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