Cost Prohibitive — The last reactor at Three Mile Island is shutting down
Plant owner Exelon said the reactor would shut down by September 30. from Ars Technica by Megan Geuss, 05/09/2019.
Leona Helmsley, who, like Trump …
From a column By Daniel Hemel in the Washington Post: Trump just gave the House a very good reason to look at his tax returns Of course, anyone who has been following Trump-related tax news over the past several years should know by now that the president’s attitude toward tax compliance is cavalier, if not … [Read more…]
The Moron’s Dozen
By Dirty Matt Leonardo Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, a copy of an original 4 x 6 inches in ball point pen
The Foundation Book: Bay Hill Road Bodega Bay
By Dirty Matt Leonardo Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, original 4 x 10 inches in ball point pen.
The Demon Test by Dirty Matt Leonardo
Traded for a small donation with Mr. Leonardo in Petaluma CA in 2018, original 4 x 6 inches in ball point pen.
Goldilock’s Range – from The Uninhabitable Earth
The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells: Page 42: This (environmental warmth) is among the things cosmologists mean when they talk about the utter improbability of anything as advanced as human intelligence evolving anywhere in a universe as inhospitable to life as this one; every uninhabitable planet out there is a reminder of … [Read more…]
Qian Xuesen
(From Wikipedia) Qian Xuesen, (11 December 1911 – 31 October 2009), was a prominent Chinese aerodynamicist, cyberneticist and politician who contributed to rocket science and established engineering cybernetics. Recruited from MIT, he joined Theodore von Karman’s group at Caltech.[1] Later, he returned to China and made important contributions to China’s missile and space program. During … [Read more…]
USDA orders scientists to say published research is ‘preliminary’
USDA orders scientists to say published research is ‘preliminary’ – From the Washington Post, April 19, 2019. Researchers at the Agriculture Department laughed in disbelief last summer when they received a memo about a new requirement: Their finalized, peer-reviewed scientific publications must be labeled “preliminary.” The July 2018 memo from Chavonda Jacobs-Young, the acting USDA … [Read more…]
Only rebellion will prevent an ecological apocalypse
George Monbiot hits all the right words in his article in todays Guardian: rebellion, ecological and apocalypse. He is as usual, dramatic but what he says is right. It makes me think and that is good. As the author Jeremy Lent points out in a recent essay, it is almost certainly too late to save … [Read more…]
How We Can Fix Our Immigration Courts
An enlightening essay in the WAPO on what the immigration court system does, how it is administered, and contains some ideas on how to fix it: I’m an immigration judge. Here’s how we can fix our courts.