For the low, low price of a morning newspaper you also get my take on whether or not you can expect a good southwestern monsoon this year. The succinct answer? Dunno…. There are forecasters in the National Weather Service’s Albuquerque office who have never seen a really juicy monsoon. You know the kind— towering late-afternoon …
$3 a gallon gas and $70 a barrel oil represent a teachable moment. The results of my schooling can be found here: So is biodiesel made from restaurant fry oil the answer to our nation’s transportatioan fuel woes? The short answer, energy experts say, is “no.” But once the caveats are added in, the longer …
“The group title may well come down to its final two games Wednesday when Mexico plays Portugal and Angola meets Iran.” “This match will determine once and for all, which nation is the greatest on Earth – Mexico or Portugal!”
Added Live from Silver City to the Planet. (WC: Silver City’s down in the southern part of my state, a town of about 10,000 or so.)
I have a great frustration with traditional television news coverage of wildfires, because it generally leaves the impression of a chaotic, uncontrolled and unpredictable situation. Sometimes it is that way. But more often, the fire crews have a pretty clear idea of terrain, fuel load and weather. They know where the fire is now, and …
I want one of those really big-ass barbecues. The kind that’s all shiny metal, with a giant tank of propane or something, so I can cook lots of meat – sizzling raw flesh of dead animals. And a place to hold a keg of beer for me and my man friends. But it’s got to …
On Greenland warming (hat tip Benny Peiser)
The problem with the U.S. Department of Energy. Perhaps subtitled: “Parking in 14 easy pages.”
I timed an ant this evening, walking (if you can call it that – “drunkenly stumbling”?) across our front yard with an elm seed as big as she was. The ants have been with us forever, a big colony living under our driveway about midway between the house and the street. I’m pretty sure they …
From the virtual lips of Johnny_Mango, a phrase that has never before appeared on the InterWeb: Armenian chess houligans.