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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Obama punts on climate

Saturday, March 16, 2013

No surprises here: The Obama Administration has, tragically, signaled it may retreat on two major climate issues. The UK Guardian reported Friday: Barack Obama’s grand vision of action on climate change shrank to $200m a year to fund research into clean fuel cars, with signs of retreat on the big environmental issues of the day…. […]

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Statistical questions

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Apparently, Wayne LaPierre said this yesterday. “The one thing a violent rapist deserves to face is a good woman with a gun,” he said. (via Washington Post) It would be interesting to know the following statistics: How many rapes are foiled on a weekly basis by good women with guns. (I am having a bit […]

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Spring comin’

Saturday, March 16, 2013

We’re in Boston. Yesterday, we took in the Boston Flower Show. Herewith some pictures, none too great, but at least they serve as a reminder of things to come. In my defense, photo-wise, the lighting at the Seaport World Trade Center, where the show is held, is a nightmare. It’s almost impossible to get a […]

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Friday Night Music-35th Anniversary Edition

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Tuesday will mark 35 years of wedded bliss for me and my girl. Well, not all bliss, especially for her, but we’ve been hanging in there ever since the JP made us legal in our living room before a crowd of four. Somehow, against all odds, she’s put up with me for that long. So, […]

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Here comes the new pontiff, same as the old pontiff

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

But of course, we’ll all get fooled again. This is from an article written in January of 2011: Benedict XVI gave us words of great comfort and encouragement in the message he delivered on Christmas Eve. “God anticipates us again and again in unexpected ways,” the pope said. “He does not cease to search for […]

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Painful

Monday, March 11, 2013

Sports headline in this morning’s Day (not repeated on-line): Huskies win easy 

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More adventures in semantics

Saturday, March 9, 2013

As one ages one acquires the right to become a curmudgeon, or at least one tends to believe that to be the case. Having reached a not yet ripe, but still old age, I am going to indulge myself. The object of my not-quite-wrath? Why, as often, the New York Times, whose style book, in […]

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Friday Night Music

Friday, March 8, 2013

It’s yet another snowy Friday, it being exactly one month since the actual blizzard we endured four weeks ago today. I spent some time looking for songs about winter, and trying to find suitable videos for the titles I found. Not much luck, until I found this one, in which the video and audio quality […]

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What an a******

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Eric Holder, two days ago: Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the suicide death of internet activist Aaron Swartz was a “tragedy,” but the hacking case against the 26-year-old was “a good use of prosecutorial discretion.” Holder, the nation’s top prosecutor, is the highest-ranking member of the President Barack Obama administration to defend the […]

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Graphing inequality

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

No time to actually post anything, but I thought I’d pass this along, which I saw here.

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