Hope you can read my Climate: It's Not Just a Metaphor op-ed, published this Sunday in the Ventura County Star…here with links. "Something a little strange has happened in our national conversation about the economic crisis. Our economic experts frequently speak and write of the fiscal climate as if it were the physical climate. ByContinue reading “Climate: It’s Not Just a Metaphor”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Our Children for the Apocalypse? A Panel Discussion
From The Onion, of course. Incredibly funny, unsurprisingly. http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swfAre Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?
Rod Dreher: Rush Limbaugh is Crack for Conservatives
Fascinating to see America's biggest blowhard become the spokesman for the Republican Party. After hearing Limbaugh's speech to a national convention of conservatives this weekend, President Obama's right-hand man, Rahm Emmanuel, on Face the Nation, happily declared Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party." (No doubt he knows thatContinue reading “Rod Dreher: Rush Limbaugh is Crack for Conservatives”
George Will Misleads on Global Warming Again, Slapped on Wrist
This Sunday George Will,who is supposedly a serious thinker and not just a right-wing partisan, wrote his second Sunday column in a row about global warming. Just as he had the Sunday before, based on a septic Daily Tech item, he claimed that a) there has been no global warming since l997-l998, and b) globalContinue reading “George Will Misleads on Global Warming Again, Slapped on Wrist”
Venus, the Moon, and the Stars too…
Thanks to Deborah Byrd's great EarthSky science site, it's easy to look out at the night sky and understand what you see…the beauty you'll have to find yourself…
Global Warming Satellite Crashes
Happened to be observing at Vandenberg Air Force base the launch of a satellite that scientists hoped would answer a huge question about global warming called the OCO, or Orbiting Carbon Observatory. Ten minutes after lift-off, those of us standing in a chilly field in the early morning heard the voices over the loudspeakers atContinue reading “Global Warming Satellite Crashes”
An Unsurpassed Loveliness
This has been a day of unsurpassed loveliness for yours truly. For thirty years I have wondered, off and on, if I made the right career choice, and suspected perhaps I should have gone into journalism, despite its current woes, for personal reasons. Now it seems as if the universe is giving me a secondContinue reading “An Unsurpassed Loveliness”
Why We’re Expecting Too Much of Obama
The most powerful critique of the American way of life in recent years has come from a conservative professor named Andrew Bacevich, who in his book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism absolutely dismantles both the Bush doctrine and the fatuous belief that Barack Obama will fundamentally change the national security state.Continue reading “Why We’re Expecting Too Much of Obama”
NASA Satellite Launch Goes Awry: Stolz Attacks Engineers
Yesterday morning at 1:55 a.m., NASA launched a satellite designed to precisely measure flows of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, called the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. Unfortunately the nosecone failed to open as the mission neared orbit, and the satellite crashed into the sea near Antarctica. Bad news for NASA — and the planet — butContinue reading “NASA Satellite Launch Goes Awry: Stolz Attacks Engineers”
Hollywood is Forever
Many years ago, a young student director named Marty Brest made a self-financed movie as a fellow at the American Film Institute called "Hot Tomorrows." The plot cannot be synopsized, but the climax was unforgettable, as the young searcher standing in for Brest himself looked high and low for the meaning of Hollywood, in mortuaries,Continue reading “Hollywood is Forever”
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