You people in the developed world are certainly free to debate the merits of genetically modified foods, but can we please eat first?” – Dr. Florence Wambugu The blind girl lurched toward me across the parking lot at Tirta Empul temple, mewling. I guessed she was ten to thirteen years of age, and shorter thanContinue reading “Golden Rice. Golden Opportunity.”
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Jury Selection. Again.
In 2011, I was part of a host of people considered to sit on a jury. Considering that the trial for the killing Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman has just ended in a Not Guilty verdict, I thought I would share how the process appears to work in Lake County, California. Jury duty in LakeContinue reading “Jury Selection. Again.”
Managing That Wild Natural Look
In 1978, I was just beginning my career with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). I worked in the southern Sierra Nevada range as the Assistant Forest Manager at Mountain Home State Forest. The federally managed 1.2 million acre Sequoia National Forest surrounded the 4800-acre state forest. On most of theContinue reading “Managing That Wild Natural Look”
You cannot be serious
(H/T Wm Briggs)
The Sunday funny, a day early
This trucker certainly doesn’t have a war on Christmas. He (or she) wants to marry Cristmas (sic).
A no CARB diet
California has created a market out of thin air. On December 16, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) endorsed (by a vote of 9-1) the cap-and-trade regulation with the goal of reducing California’s greenhouse gas emissions under Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions of 2006 law. The regulation limits emissions from sources responsible forContinue reading “A no CARB diet”
Dear commenters trapped by my spam catcher
My Askimet spam catcher harvested 36 possible spam comments over the past 24 hours. Since so many of you placed in spamagtory have asked the same questions and comments, I thought I would answer them with one post. First, thank you for saying how much you love the posts. Second, the Timberati blog uses theContinue reading “Dear commenters trapped by my spam catcher”
Just call him “Alan Greenspam”
From Grist.com come’s a sign of the times we live in: a virtual arguer. Nigel Leck got tired of arguing with people who were skeptical about global warming science. Noticing that most of them used the same debunked arguments over and over again, he decided to make a Twitter chatbot to answer them automatically. TheContinue reading “Just call him “Alan Greenspam””
A pox on humanity…and just in time for the holidays too!
The Fate of the World rests in your chip-laden hands. The holidays have arrived and you still don’t know what to get that dystopian gamer in the family, do you? You know the one: the moody, militant, and misanthropic neo-Malthusian who says that SimCity is for pussies. He’s sure that humanity is sucking down theContinue reading “A pox on humanity…and just in time for the holidays too!”
Rotting Swill: The “No Pressure” video from 10:10UK.org stinks
Recently a four-minute video titled No Pressure, written by the writer of Notting Hill, bombed worse than Ishtar because it bombed innocents. No Pressure promotes the 10:10 movement’s goal to lower carbon emissions by ten percent. The video went viral in an ebola sort of way. Because banners and billboards are so déclassé, the 10:10Continue reading “Rotting Swill: The “No Pressure” video from 10:10UK.org stinks”
Nullius in Verba 