Dec 23 2006
It’s been outrageously warm here in Connecticut. Today it was 55 outside, four degrees warmer than at our home in California. It’s been raining, but it cleared enough this afternoon to go for a walk with Jodi. It was nice to stretch the legs, burn a few calories (which I am trying REALLY HARD to [...]
Dec 21 2006
In a recent letter to his constituents, Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) wrote that “The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district, and if American citizens don’t wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use [...]
Dec 20 2006
Ah, home in Killingworth. We’re several hours late, but surely better off than anybody who thought they’d be in Denver today…
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Dec 20 2006
I’d forgotten how much I hate the Vegas airport. A sea of humanity, tempted by glittering and beeping slot machines. No place to sit and eat – just sticky stools in front of machines that fool the statistically challenged.
Now onto Hartford!
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Dec 19 2006
For many weeks, the radio program “To the Best of Our Knowledge” has been running a series entitled “Electrons to Enlightenment”. It’s taking a wide and varied look at the issues of religion and science in modern American society. The most recent program discussed the relevance of evolution to a nation whose majority doesn’t believe [...]
Dec 18 2006
I was pleased with the results of the recent elections, although I believe that this was more a vote against Southern Republicans than a vote for Democrats. In a two-party system, when you vote against one party by definition you wind up voting for the other, even if you don’t vote at all. At the [...]
Dec 17 2006
As I have probably mentioned in the past, “On The Media” is one of my favorite weekly programs (and netcasts). It tackles issues concerning the media’s portrayal of events, and is interesting from a “peer review” point of view. In science, we review the work of other scientists and by doing so verify or invalidate [...]
Dec 17 2006
It’s just not the holiday season in this household without a trip to the SF ballet’s performance of “The Nutcracker”. Jodi and I put on our sunday best last night and headed up to the city for a wonderful and transportive night of dance, music, and sets. As you can see, we clean up [...]
Dec 16 2006
Washington state is getting hammered. This is one of the bigger winter storms in years, and it’s left the good folks to our north in a state of emergency. While we’ve been gray and chilly all day, it’s nothing even approaching bad weather. However, there is this lingering promise of rain, and maybe hail, tonight.
However, [...]
Dec 14 2006
The sudden illness of a Senator from South Dakota, Tim Johnson, made me think about how small the world is. His illness is terrible: a silent growth of blood vessels in the brain that are unable to contain the pressure and rupture. The subsequent stroke affects the regions of the brain where the nest of [...]
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