A tropical cyclone has sprung up just off the tip of the Yucatan peninsula which could pose a threat to Florida early next week.
Monthly Archive: October 2011
Oct 25 2011
Civics teacher facing charges for teaching students how to vote
A high school civics teacher in the state of Florida is facing serious consequences for, get this, teaching students approaching voting age how to properly register to vote. In an election. In a democracy.
Oct 25 2011
Nation’s largest solar panel company leaderless
Strange happenings at the nation’s largest solar panel manufacturer.
Oct 25 2011
Is this Herman Cain ad for real?
I have no idea, especially given the odd events at about 40 seconds in. But I think it’s supposed to be legit.
Oct 25 2011
The lesson of my medical bills: Why I’m a progressive
Last month I got hurt bad enough to spend several days in the hospital, during which time I got a bunch of expensive treatment and tests. The bills have started rolling in now and one of the larger ones had two numbers on it: the $13,000 and change I would have owed vs the roughly $5,000 the …
Oct 24 2011
Perry has a tax plan
Governor Rick Perry has released some details of a flat-ish tax plan which critics say weakens Social Security, complicates the tax code and raises tax for the vast majority, but, to no one’s surprise, heavily favors the super rich and multinational corporations. One of the weirder features the plan creates a parallel tax code. That …
Oct 24 2011
Misty eye of the water serpent
The translation of the constellation Hydra is Water Serpent, and astronomers now know the name is strangely appropriate for at least part of the formation.
Oct 24 2011
That’s one cool brown dwarf
I don’t know what it is about brown dwarfs, but I just love these things. Maybe it’s the thought of a bunch of cold bodies wandering unseen, up to now anyway, through interstellar space: Luhman classifies this object as a “brown dwarf,” an object that formed just like a star out of a massive cloud …
Oct 23 2011
Climate change and Watts watch
Anthony Watts announced he’s taking the weekend off. But TPM has the back story up on their front page with the header “Climate Change Deniers Abandon ‘Befuddled Warmist’ Physicist Who Came Around On Global Warming”. Specifically that’s Richard Muller, a UC Berkeley physicist who now seems to accept the consensus that the earth is indeed …
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