Right now, still pre-dawn. I think of the law students who must endure another 8:30 a.m. exam. The exams are always at 8:30 a.m. -- a tough time for a young person. It's easy for us oldsters to be up and sharp at dawn. I coul…
In New York, when it rains, people overreact absurdly, as if the rain were acid. There was a normal, gentle rain falling as I was walking home from work today, and I saw people cringing, looking deeply distressed. And absolutely …
Says British judge. ADDED: More: In what is a rare judicial ruling on what children can see in the class-room, Mr Justice Barton was at pains to point out that the “apocalyptic vision” presented in the film was politically partis…
Jeff Jacoby writes (via Memeorandum ) about the overbearing attitude now being taken about global warming, using the word "denial" as in "Holocaust denial." Why the relentless labeling of those who point out …
Mark Steyn on the Beauchamp affair ... and the recalculation of the global warming statistics. It's one of those 2-topic columns the editors warn you against. Final ¶: As Pogo said, way back in the 1971 Earth Day edition of a…
I've got to get out in that crazy snow. Before going, I wanted to link to my new Bloggingheads episode but it's not up yet, so I'll just link to the main site and you can check for it in a while. I don't know wha…
Oh, but it do look like rain here in Wichita, where I'm finally on line. It's almost 700 miles from Madison to Wichita, the obvious place to stop on this drive to Austin. And as I reached the final 100 miles, just past Ka…
All the Madison area schools are canceled today for cold, including the schools in Madison itself. Madison schools are always the last to close. I know that from my many years of checking for school closings when my sons were yo…
You've all seen it. This photo atop all the articles about the new report on global warming. (Go to the article to see the larger size.) Here's my question. How many people look at that picture and think the polar bears …
Tornadoes ravaged central Florida today. The sound of the approaching storm was so loud, a deaf woman heard it . It made me think of this song : You talk about your woman I wish you could see mine... Every time she starts to lovi…