Why the right hates global warming. |
As the scientific community has compiled and interpreted data on climate change, those in opposition to the conclusions of the scientific community have followed a somewhat predictable path of dissent...
Posted by Hermit on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:30:00 PST |
It's time to consider universal health care |
New York Times article Most Support U.S. Guarantee of Health Care By ROBIN TONER and JANET ELDER Published: March 2, 2007 A majority of Americans say the federal government should guarantee health in...
Posted by Hermit on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:37:00 PST |
I never knew it 'til now, but I LOVE the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MIT and other Universities are giving away their courses on the Internet.Massachusetts Institute of Technology started the MITOpenCourseWare project. To date MIT has posted Reading Lists, Assign...
Posted by Hermit on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:51:00 PST |
The true importance of electricity |
I have a friend whose father will not use a tumble dryer to dry his bath towels. He says it steals the fuzz. While this may be true, I find that line drying my towels does not leave ...
Posted by Hermit on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:06:00 PST |
Ignoring the intolerable |
If we choose to go through life ignoring that which is unpleasant, we are putting off the inevitable. Perhaps that is one of the problems with the current administration. The national debt...
Posted by Hermit on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:40:00 PST |
A real (STUPID) patriot |
I saw a small pickup today with a flag painted on the tailgate. Next to the flag it said "America, Love it or Leave it. I don't personally know the owner of the truck, as far as I know, I have neve...
Posted by Hermit on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:26:00 PST |
Fuckin' idiots! |
I think the Bush administration saw Iraq as low hanging fruit. A place where western style government could be installed at the point of a gun by simply taking out the current dictator. In a part of...
Posted by Hermit on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 07:07:00 PST |
Dealing with terrorism, Bush has failed |
The war in Iraq was the best thing to come along for the terrorist leadership in quite awhile. A war, without the support of the only global governing body, against a nation with a largely Islamic pop...
Posted by Hermit on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:57:00 PST |
What the Bush administratoin has done for our country |
*They have rallied the social conservatives, drumming up the passions of religious zealots that think they would prefer to live in a theocracy. Thereby indebting the administration to a small, but v...
Posted by Hermit on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:03:00 PST |
Why your views on abortion don't matter. |
While not specifically spelled out in the Constitution I believe that most people agree that there is an implied right to privacy. One of the ways this is demonstrated is that it is against the law fo...
Posted by Hermit on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:23:00 PST |
