Punditry
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Archive of entries posted by jfleck
More Stuff What I Wrote Elsewhere
My book review of 100 Suns. That’s the “Mike” shot, the first hydrogen bomb – arguably a very important moment in history.
Journalists Predicting the Future
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Stuff What I Wrote Elsewhere
From this morning’s Albuquerque Journal: The Bush administration asked Congress on Monday for the largest nuclear weapons budget in U.S. history. The Bush administration’s request of $6.9 billion for nuclear weapons work is larger, in inflation-adjusted terms, than the budget reached in 1985 during the peak of the Reagan administration Cold War. That was the …
Carson Marks
I received a piece of spam today from Carson Marks. At first I thought, “Wow, a veteran of the Manhattan Project, one of the designers of the first atomic bomb, is trying to sell me prescription medicine on line.” Then I realized the eminent theoretical physicist is J. Carson Mark, not Marks. Plus, the eminent …
Into the cuckoo’s nest
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Fortune on Climate Change
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Weird Googlejuice
I found the answer this morning to one of life’s great mysteries. In my Inkstain logs, I see a steady traffic to an old blog entry about Lowell George and Frank Zappa, and I’ve never understood why. I only found one person linking to it, an entry from back in December on a rarely updated …
“I Ripped My Pants”
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The Corrales Hill
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