Science! Spacecraft! Comets!
Is everyone aware that the European Space Agency has a spacecraft orbiting a comet at the moment? And that the day after tomorrow the Agency is going to try
Archive of entries posted on November 2014
Pricey Sunday
Our home water pressure has been a little above normal for quite a while now, although I didn’t know that that’s what was causing me to hear water running anywhere in the house at a specific corner of the playroom. Over the past few days, though it got really really loud. So I called a …
College Football Saturday
Hmm. 9th-ranked Arizona State is up 34-17 over 10th-ranked Notre Dame in the third quarter. Unranked Texas A&M is up 35-24 on 3rd-ranked Auburn with 4:41 left in the third quarter, but Auburn just scored to get within 11 points. 11th-ranked Old Miss destroyed Presybterian 48-0, a shocker. 12-ranked Baylor whupped 15th-ranked Oklahoma 48-14. Top-ranked …
A “Blizzard” of vetoes?
I’m with Kevin Drum, who quotes Ramesh Ponnuru: Senate Democrats will have the power to subject almost all legislation to filibuster (a word that does not appear in Will’s column [whence came the “blizzard” phrase]). Overcoming a filibuster takes 60 votes. So Republicans, who will probably end up with 54 seats, would have to win …
It makes no sense
So voters want a higher minimum wage, legal pot, abortion access and GOP representation. Ok then. — Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) November 5, 2014 All three of those policies are Democratic issues, so it makes all the sense in the world to vote for the Republicans to implement them. My fellow Americans, what were you thinking?
Oh fer cryin’ out loud
Obligatory song:
Now THIS is tough
I can’t recall a time when I saw a headline as forceful as this one directed toward a state’s governor in a major newspaper: The relentless lies of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback The author, Barbara Shelly, enumerates countless instances of what she calls lies on the part of the former Senator and now Governor Brownback. …
Happy Day of the Dead!
If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s projections are correct, there will be many more dead to celebrate in the near future, because the people of this planet are not doing nearly enough to solve our global emissions problems. Failure to reduce emissions, the group of scientists and other experts found, could threaten society with …