This might have made a great Netroots Nation 2012 party theme if it had happened sooner. Yesterday morning MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough was whining about a piece in the NYT about Romney’s wealth and his recent multimillion dollar makeover of a beach mansion. The conservative commentator immediately went into the all too familiar rightwing persecution mode [Read more…]
NASA’s SOHO and Venus in transit. Awesome! And there are more photos, I’ll be adding to this for the next few hours time permitting. [Read more…]
And by beauty we mean 700 °F pressure cooker topped with clouds of boiling sulfuric acid. Nevertheless, Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after the moon and the occasional visiting comet or even rarer nova, and the closest planet to earth. Later today it will make a rare transit between the earth and the sun the likes of which will not happen for another century: [Read more…]
First the zombie face eater and now this joker who made YouTube kitten snuff films before moving on to mailing human body parts to national politicians: [Read more…]
A buddy of mine really freaked me out the other day when he demonstrated he’d bought into the Austerians hook, line, and sinker. I. e., that the way out of a recession is gut government spending. During the discussion he threw out “I took macro economics, I know how it works.” I didn’t argue with him because, one, I love the guy to death, he and his wife are some of the most decent compassionate people I’ve ever known, and two, I judged it would have been pointless. But if I was going to try to argue on those terms, here’s how it might go … [Read more…]
Diablo III, the third Boston album of the video game world — to date myself and coin a phrase — is ALIVE (Cue dramatic chipmunk). [Read more…]
I am in tech support hell, posting may be light for a day or two, my apologies and that is all.
I’m in Austin these days and I got a little, teeny, tiny studio apartment. It’s claustrophobic small, but that’s all I need thanks to the insane hours required to survive on my horrific Great Recession pay rate. Things were fine for the first year. But a few months ago the complex was sold to a company based out of California called Greystar. My experience since ranks right up there with an unmedicated root canal. [Read more…]
I usually avoid so-called presidential debates. But it will be interesting to see Mitt Romney debate Mitt Romney this fall. There are clear contrasts between the two candidates on important issues. Here’s just one good example: [Read more…]
An artist's depiction of a hot Jupiter, click image for more info at wikipedia
If alien solar systems have giant planets that migrate in close to their star, there won’t be any earthlike planets farther out. At least that’s what a new survey of exosolar systems suggests: [Read more…]