Nature Keep It Forever With You The wind whistled through the tack, rustling the straps on the luggage tied up top. It was not clear which was worse, the miles of rutted path, or the miles of mud threatening to suck the horseshoes right off the team straining to make forward progress. A sharp chill was
Environment Zack Labe (NOAA) -- Just Fired by DOGE I recently wrote a piece on this site that examined the concept of climate tipping points. In that piece I focused on two climate change features that have the potential to give us an early warning on climate disaster: the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, and Arctic sea-ice collapse. After a
Nature A Billion Years It is easy to picture our galaxy as just a bunch of static stuff. Where most of us live the night sky is a mild gray luminescence, polluted by urban light. Maybe the moon is out, behaving like the moon always does, in the same old, same old. There might
Members only Commentary Senator Tim Kaine Has a Website Democrats are paralyzed. Even with the advanced warning right there in Project 2025, courtesy of the clueless Heritage Foundation, they are still paralyzed. Senator Chuck Schumer appears particularly comatose. He can post on X, and appear geriatric chanting at a mini-protest in front of Treasury. But mobilize a Democratic opposition?
Members only Commentary Flog Me With a Wet Noodle Whew! I’m so glad the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been solved by President Trump! “They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.” – Donald J Trump, CNN town hall, May 2023.
Members only Commentary One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingy "Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?" – with apologies to Ernestine Two hundred thousand unsubscribers are not wrong. The saga of the contested Trump-Putin phone call demonstrates that Jeff Bezos has done more harm to the reporters at The Washington Post than all the cancellations
Members only Commentary Why I Canceled My Subscription to The Washington Post On Friday I canceled my subscription to The Washington Post. Since then, as each WaPo newsletter has arrived in my inbox, I have unsubscribed as well. And here’s why. I have been hard on the news and commentary media this year. And that includes The WaPo, The NY Times,
Members only Audio It Doesn't Have to Be This Way The Scene CNN reports: "There have been at least 50 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of September 19 [2024]. Thirteen were on college campuses, and 37 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left 24 people dead and at least 66 other victims
Members only Commentary The Average of Garbage is Garbage I only had one nerve left, and the Washington Post had to grab it and twist. Grab it, with the headline “Harris’s rise in the polls has stalled, while Trump holds steady.” And then twist, with the most tortured, misleading data analysis I’ve read in a long time.