We’re so screwed. Bob Shrum just said Democrats will hold the House and Senate.
Archives for October 2010
Parting the Land from the Waters…
There’s a couple of cool posts on terraforming appeared in io9 recently, telling me all sorts of things I did not know. Part I: “How to Wreck A Planet in 3000 Years”: … The term “terraforming” was invented by author Jack Williamson in his 1942 short story “Collision Orbit,” published in Astounding Science Fiction. In …
Whitman Follies
You have to admire Gloria Allred after seeing the one-two she delivered to Meg Whitman. Allred represents Whitman’s undocumented immigrant housekeeper, and when she dropped her first bomb, she held back a crucial piece of evidence, a 2003 letter from the Social Security Administration with a hand-written annotation by Whitman’s husband. It’s the handwriting that’s …
Arianna’s Little People
Even though the Huffington Post can hire Howard Fineman, they can’t pay Mayhill Fowler, the woman who wrote the “cling to your guns” story. The Huffington side of the story is that Fowler was a freelancer who pitched a couple of stories that they didn’t bite on, just like many other freelancers. Perhaps Huffington is …
This Year’s “Geniuses”
None of the more-qualified front pagers here seem to have mentioned the 2010 MacArthur Fellows, the list of whom was released earlier this week. I am not ashamed to admit that I can’t begin to understand an “Optical Physicist working at the intersection of fundamental photonics and nanofabrication engineering to design silicon-based photonic circuits that …
Not Getting It
The government wants to add two new rules to offshore oil drilling. One says that offshore oil rigs need to have a spill contingency plan and practice it, and the other is about bore hole cement, maintenance and blowout protectors. Here’s the response from industry shills: “We cannot have an approval process that creates unpredictable …
Early Morning Open Thread: Good Night, Good Dog
From commentor Folkbum: Margaret Jane — Maggie — was our snow dog, our solid-white Great Pyrenees, whom we rescued from the Great Pyrenees rescue of Greater Chicago. (http://www.gpcgc.org/rescue.htm) She was a stray, found with another Pyr and a Pyr-golden mix that summer running loose in southern Illinois. She was skinny and shy and sweet as …
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