Findings of the US Climate Change Science Program While the vast amount of media coverage of Obama’s speech on national security today will focus on Iraq and Afghanistan, I would note what Obama himself says is the greatest single security threat to the US (and the world): This immediate danger is eclipsed only by the long-term threat from climate change, …
[T]he ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind. –Marshall McLuhan Notwithstanding that people who suffer damage to the right parahippocampal gyrus are incapable of registering sarcasm (sometimes equated with satire, an arguable difference being the use of irony by the former to merely demean versus …
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger flexed his Terminator muscles in George W. Bush‘s face this morning on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopolous: “They just didn’t believe in it or they didn’t believe that they should do anything about it, since China is not doing anything about it and since India is not willing to do the same thing, so why …
A Mind’s Eye View of Star Trek’s The Game In Star Trek: The Next Generation’s The Game (Episode 106, first aired 10/28/91), the crew of the Enterprise becomes totally addicted to a virtual reality game brought aboard the ship from an alien world. A slick pair of VR specs sends visual imagery to brain, energizing the brain’s serotonin and …
Spontaneous Republican Combustion Five weeks ago I wrote what’s beginning to look like the first installment in a continuing series on the Rethuglican Party’s self-immolation. It began thusly: Citing the public’s “. . .deep seeded antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures and, in some areas, the underlying cultural differences that continue to brand our party,” …
San Francisco voters have, in an upcoming election, the opportunity to name a prominent civic structure after the current president. George W. Bush, whom many historians consider to be the worst president in US history, is nonetheless being singled out for the honor of having his name engraved on a building overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean. If the measure passes, …
Rep. Steny Hoyer demonstrates his insight into 4th Amendment Put aside for the moment that Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman, Jay Rockefeller, et al, were “read into” Bush’s illegal wiretapping tapping program and are thus complicit in breaking the FISA law. And therefore have every reason to grant immunity to the telecoms and the Bushies, regardless of what damage it does …
