Authoritarians at the Gate

  The honoring of power over reason is that which makes one an authoritarian. For the Authoritarian, power is more important than laws. Laws become whatever Authoritarians impose on others. Authoritarians are far more likely to exhibit “sloppy reasoning, highly-compartmentalized beliefs, double standards, hypocrisy, self-blindness, a profound ethnocentrism, and — to top it all off —…

What On Earth Day Are You Doing?

  What On Earth Day Are You Doing? Well, I am reading climate change science fantasy… Climate Change Is Killing People in Houston. Meanwhile, Texas Is Full of Climate Skeptics And its redaction by truth… Climate FAIL Files A History of the Disastrous Global Warming Hoax And… I am wondering why my tax dollars are being…

I’m Getting Over Sentimental, And You?

As we head into the New Year let’s take a moment to not look back…   Sentimentality is that taskmaster which keeps us longing for the leeks and garlic of Egypt, the known-knowns of past life, up to and including slavery.  Sentimentality is gate keeper to the past, fending off reality to preserve sugar-plum memories.  Sentimentality…

It’s Not Easy Being Green Without CO2

Kermit sang it:   It’s not that easy being green Having to spend each day the color of the leaves … But green’s the color of Spring And green can be cool and friendly-like And green can be big like an ocean, or important Like a mountain, or tall like a tree…   “It’s not…

Less Than One Degree of Separation

 “I have been probing the arguments for global warming for well over a decade. In collaboration with a lot of excellent coauthors I have consistently found that when the layers get peeled back, what lies at the core is either flawed, misleading or simply non-existent.” Ross McKitrick, Financial Post  What is posited as mankind’s greatest…

Climate Apocalyptic-ism & The WannaBe Oppressed

Psalm 8 Lord, our Lord,     how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory     in the heavens.  Through the praise of children and infants     you have established a stronghold against your enemies,     to silence the foe and the avenger.  When I consider your heavens,     the work of your fingers, the…