When I started this blog, every now and then I’d post about my “Idiot of the Week”. I’ve never liked using the term “idiot” because calling someone like Eugene Robinson an idiot is to demean the ancient and noble profession of idiotry. So I’ve some up with a new epithet: Muttonhead. The pickings were very [...]
When you are bent at the shovel for twelve hours, you do a lot of thinking. In April of 1815 a volcano called Mount Tambora erupted in what is now Indonesia. The eruption, classified by volcanologists as “super-colossal” was about twenty times more powerful than the Mt St. Helens eruption in 1980 and was heard [...]
I had planned on posting a statement of renewed commitment to writing on my blog with the coming of the new year…but this proved too irresistible: I find it deliciously appropriate that, in the wake of the ClimateGate scandal, which revealed the lengths fear mongering scientists will go to cook the books in support of [...]
