We have a Golden Retriever named Misty. I was never a dog person but Misty has changed my opinion of dogs. She is the nicest, most polite dog I have ever seen. I've come to realize that Goldens are that way. I never thought of Misty as much of a guard dog. She seems to be all bark and no acti...

01/10/2010

IPCC's Peer Reviewed Science Is Sometimes Just Someone's Wild Ass Guess Laundered Through a Few Publications

2 Comments

Let's say that you're having a nice, friendly discussion about the effects of global warming with a friend. He says that he heard that the glaciers in the Himalayas are receding quicker than those in other parts of the world and could disappear altogether by 2035. When you ask him for his sourc...

01/10/2010

Girl Scout Hikes Through the Snow to Sell Me Cookies

4 Comments

I received this email from a neighbor who I had never met that went something like this: Dear Neighbors, With the exceptional cold weather I don't feel comfortable having Rose go door to door selling Girl Scout cookies this year. She will gladly come and deliver them in late February however! If ...

01/08/2010

Quarter Inch of Snow Shuts Down Atlanta. My Kids Go Sledding Down the Driveway

2 Comments

It happens about once a year. Atlanta gets an inch or two of snow and it shuts things down. Last night we got a dusting of snow. It was so little I really don't think you could measure it. But the temperatures plunged into the teens immediately and it created a really thin layer of ice and fro...

01/08/2010

C-SPAN Wants to Cover the Closed Door Healthcare Dealings. Mr. President, Open Those Doors!

3 Comments

One thing Barack Obama said repeatedly during his campaign was that the normal way of doing things in Washington would be over. Hashing out the details of the healthcare package wouldn't be behind closed doors as in the past. He promised over and over that it all would be so very transparent and...

01/06/2010

The New Decade is Still a Year Away

6 Comments

Next time someone says something about the "new" decade, ask them if they are aware that in most of the calendars that are used, there is no year zero. That means that that the end of the first year was December 31st 0001 and the end of the first decade was December 31st 0010. The start of the ...

01/03/2010