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Over the last decade and a half I’ve observed a Darwinian microcosom at Casa Pointman. It seems possums like cat food as much as the cats so one of the chores I relish is running off the little buggers and dispatching the retarded ones with prejudice when they won’t take a hint and go […]

Someone with too much time on their hands came up with an intersting little test to see how honest or dishonest people are by age, gender and race. I’ll tag this one under “Science” since I don’t to add “Bored” as a post category at this time.

Those following global warming know the most contentious point in the whole debate is Man’s own role in it. I’m on the side of any warming being naturally occurring as warming and cooling cycles through 6 centuries are fairly well documented and as of today it looks as though even the UN may be […]

Could the artic ice sheets actually be growing?

I would imagine the discovery of stem cells at the core of more cancers would be significant especially considering the recent political debate.

It is that time of year again, Leonid Meteor Shower 2006. Indications are it could be a pretty spectacular show this year…

Note that the article does not question the fact but states Israel Detonated a Radioactive Bunker Buster Bomb in Lebanon. I can see legitimately asking the question when a bomb crater turns up radioactive. But the lack of other options for the presence of radioactive debris really just turns this into an anti-Israel […]

The link between abortion and depression must be solid enough that it can no longer be hidden if a British paper is publishing a story on it.

Weather forecasts are a fun if sometimes frustrating venture. Today, for example, I’m looking at the coming weekend weather on three different weather websites (Weather Underground, Weather Channel and Indy Star) and I’m getting 3 completely different outlooks just for Sunday.
So I have to ask… if 3 weathermen cannot agree on what it’s going to […]

It’s a long paper (67 pages) but worth at least skimming if not thoroughly reading, the likley link between television and autism, or more closely the link between the rise of cable television and autism. Since before cable there wasn’t enough programming to use your television as a babysitter. I’d recommend anyone still using their […]

The hurricane season, this year, has been little more than a few tropical storms that the “if it bleeds, it leads” media all but willed ashore. It was quite amusing to hear the news keep referring to these storms as “hurricane strength” when, if that were the case, they’d be classed as hurricanes. But they […]

If you are going to point to melting glaciers as evidence of “global warming” what do you do when someone realizes that some glaciers are growing? Why.. you blame it on “global warming”!

As a quick followup to the sulfur Global Warming Fix; I was listening to a discussion today on “clean coal technology” involving gassing coal to remove the methane so that they do not have to burn the coal itself. One of the problems with Indiana coal verses coal from, say, Utah, is a high sulfur […]

Ok, so one of the “answers” to global warming is to release sulfur into the atmosphere? If this is actually “true” then why all the fuss over the last couple of decades to move to “low sulfur” fuels, hmm?? What about that thing called “acid rain”? I guess only today’s “environmental emergency” is the […]

Despite the dire warnings last year this year’s 2006 Atlantic tropical storm season remains well below normal and may not even catch up to the average.

It seems there has been a steady decline in the number of people in the United States who believe in evolution. And yet, the article points out, Americans are better educated than ever?
One thing the pro-evolution people do that tends to (intentionally) distort the whole debate is to blend trans-species evolution with same […]

Nice piece on BBC News, the pressure to hoax, is almost apologetic. Yet it also points out one of the driving forces behind science today, other than a political agenda. Though depending on where your funding is coming from the dollars and the agenda may be walking hand in hand.

Give me a freaking break! You can’t credibly say Wildfires May Be Linked to Global Warming without discussing the forestry rules first. Rules that, in the name of whacko environmentalism (versus legitimate environmentalism), prevent anyone from cleaning up deadfalls and keeping the fire breaks cleared.
Now add to this that, if they were […]

It is funny watching people discussing the issue lambast the author and even the paper it was printed in - which is the typical response when they cannot successfully challenge the assertions made in Scientists respond to Gore’s warnings of climate catastrophe.
“These models have been consistently wrong in all their scenarios,” asserts Ball. “Since modelers […]

YOU! Put down the wash cloth and step away from the disinfectant!

Gary Varvel hits one out of the park in his posting Rage Has a New Name. And anyone who calls Gary’s point of view intolerant only has to read the comments posted below his entry to see the opposition quickly resort to name calling, questioning Gary’s intelligence and insistence that because Gary doesn’t have […]

Yet another scientific about face. Seriously folks, they wonder why no one takes them seriously anymore. I wonder why…..
There is a very real skin cancer problem in America and we’re utilizing enough sun screen to sink several USS Mississippi battle wagons. So… maybe it isn’t the sun, eh? Then there is the dramatic […]

Nice commentary at DenverPost.com - Chill out over global warming.
…next time you’re with some progressive friends, dissent. Tell ‘em you’re not sold on this global warming stuff.
Back away slowly. You’ll probably be called a fascist.
Don’t worry, you’re not. A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force […]

I’ve seen some pretty disingenuous “research” from the nut job side of the environmental movement where global warming is concerned but this one on poison ivy really takes the cake.
Stop global warming now or face worse poison ivy rashes!! Gads, what a sham…
Another reason to worry about global warming: more and itchier poison […]

So-called “awareness” of UV is at an all time high as is the sale and use of heavy sun screen creams yet there is a skin cancer epidemic underway in the US. Could they be mistaking about UV? And what about the incredible high occurance of depression? Is all this sun screen use and […]