I woke up Sunday morning for the first time in year without thinking about what work I needed to do that day on the book. The manuscript sits in a stack on the shelf next to me. (They want it printed on paper in addition to being burned onto a CD! How quaint!) I took …
From the Guardian: ‘He is doing tremendously well and long may it continue. He’s in at the deep end, but he’s not out his depth. Some days he’s doing everything, scoring goals, playing passes and it’s great to see. It’s good experience for him right now being about the first team.’ HT Dave
Died in a haberdashery accident.
An interesting search string that brought a reader to Inkstain over the New Year’s holiday: colorado climate why does it change so much What a great question.
A piece I wrote in yesterday’s Albuquerque Journal about a new approach to maintaining the U.S. nuclear stockpile has triggered some thoughtful discussion at the Arms Control Wonk blog. See also some stuff on my Journal blog, and the usual crappy anonymous comments but a few good signed ones at the LANL blog.
Here’s a lazyweb question, the product of an afternoon at the office with entirely too much time on our hands. (Hey, it was this or writing about White Christmas. Again.) The “storm death toll” is a newsroom staple: At least 19 deaths were linked to the weekend-long blast of ice and windblown snow, which led …
And the angels came from on high, and bade Lissa go forth into that December morn and purchase luminaria bags, for the old bags were worn, or missing entirely. And lo, the angels suggested K-Mart, saying the Lord doth view Wal-Mart as the more evil of the two shopping options in our neighborhood. “But K-Mart …
A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism: Technologies such as the bow and arrow already desimianize the act of hunting. While our ancestors were able to experience the pure ape feeling of clubbing an animal to death with a rock, we are left with the cold, sterilized bow that kills cleanly and quickly from a safe …
A couple of scores this week led me back to a favorite Google game, wherein in I grab top rankings for obscure phrases that amuse me. An abbreviated list of some of the phrases I ownz, or at least ownz a substanial share of, starting with this week’s new additions to the list: sustainable nuclear …
Readers of this blog might get the mistaken idea that most of my journalistic attention is focused on climate, but for the last 17 years nuclear weapons have been my primary professional preoccupation. In that regard, it has been a remarkable week. Sunday night, Congress approved a spending bill that ended months of uncertainty surrounding …
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