Over at the Staying the Same post, or whatever I called it, Mike Fisher posted the following link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/12/1298838/-Somebody-finally-gets-the-fair-and-balanced-part-of-climate-change-debate-right-John-Oliver?detail=facebook# Go look at it. Then let me tell you what’s wrong with it.  This is the continuation of an old argument usually expressed as “don’t give them a platform.” The idea is that some ideas are…

So, it’s Saturday afternoon, and I’m having one of those days when I could sleep in the middle of the afternoon if I let myself, but I know that if I let myself I’m going to be up all night and a wreck in the morning. And I’m having, you know, malaise. It’s bad enough…

Meaning this. http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/04/interstellar_travel.html Let’s do it NOW. Let’s stop talking about how awful everything is and nattering away about “microaggressions” and whatever else, and do this.    

So, considering the amount of snark I got yesterday when I said I didn’t want children’s books in my search for an astronomy book, I think I’d better expand. First, yes, YA is indeed for children, just slightly older children.  I’m willing to concede that there’s a vast range there, but the old Sweet Valley…

This week-end, I went looking for something I couldn’t find.  And not wanting to be an idiot, I decided to do the sensible thing and ask a lot of people if they could help me find it.   This project was made a little more complicated than it might have been because I wasn’t sure…

A couple of days ago, a writer whose work I like very much posted a status saying that she had cursed somebody out on FB, and that she didn’t feel bad about it.  The was because the woman she had cursed out had declared herself in favor of a sentence that had been given to…

So it’s Tuesday, and it’s tax day, so I’m sort of floaty and distracted, the way I get when I have important things to do and don’t feel confident doing them. I get into that state fairly often, because I don’t really feel all that competent to do much of anything. But this is a…

So, here’s the thing. I actually tried to check out that story before I posted it yesterday–the one on Creationists in Oklahoma responding to the airing of Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos. I checked it out on Snopes.com, which had nothing on it.  And I found the same story a couple of other places.  In the…

And then there’s this http://topekasnews.com/oklahoma-protesters-threaten-secdee-union-neil-degrasse-tysons-cosmos-cancelled/ because the issue is not which side is bringing the stupid, but the attempts by the stupid to shut other people up. Sigh.

So, it’s Sunday, and up until a little while ago I had Gustav Leonhardt playing Well Tempered Clavier 2 behind me.  I have that on a two disc set and the first disc is finished, but I can’t seem to get myself out of the office and over to the CD player to change out. …