Despite the anger of the Denialists ...US and world progress toward some sort of efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are inching forward.  In my email box today is the following sent around by a UCAR "legislative liason:"  

"U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe LRead full post »

FEBRUARY 27, 2010 12:29PM

To Lee, at 17

What would I say to my 17-year-old self?  That's a lot harder that it seems at first thought ... what would happen if you told a kindergardener heading into class the first day: "Kid, you'll be in school for the next 30 years of your life, roughly." 

They'd break down… Read full post »

FEBRUARY 9, 2010 7:52PM

Cooler than I was

 I wrote this up because there was an open salon call for "lover's revenge" stories... but this is a true story, from my teenage years.

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This was when I was 15, which was a goodly long time ago, growing up south of San Francisco in the really early hippie era. … Read full post »

Those of you who have been following the "Global Warming" wars know that the right-wingers and the Denialists have been screaming endlessly that the meteorological observations of the global mean temperature are so contaminated by "urban heat island" effects (cities are warmer) that they claim there… Read full post »

JANUARY 19, 2010 6:34PM

Tapioca, made from the box, to Trifles

I was raised by my grandparents ... they don't make them like that anymore.  Both were born in 1896, my grandfather on a South Carolina piedmont farm, into a family much humbled by the Civil War, my grandmother to an Hawaian sugar family, an English family, considerably reduced when America took… Read full post »

JANUARY 16, 2010 9:13PM

Cinderella ... Meet Napoleon

An essay in the spirit of Franklin on our endogenous samsaras.

“Admittedly we women are the worst about this. It is the Cinderella Curse. From the first spark of infatuation we begin to fantasize about the future. STOP IT!!! .... And in case you didn't know,Read full post »

 Ok,this started out as a reply to a post by Verbal Remedy (now Denise Montgomery), and there was a suggestion to make this stand on it's own ... so here it is ---

>Lee, dear, I would LOVE to read the equivalent rant.

OK... since you asked ... but you need to… Read full post »

JANUARY 11, 2010 2:02PM

Loan Guarantees for Nukes....

Almost everyone is now betting that the Democrats in the Senate will slink off to their campaigns doing nothing to advance energy/CO2/global warming issues ... but one thing has been done: government loan guarantees for nuclear reactors are in the works.

The numbers aren't set yet, but it looks as th… Read full post »