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…]
The K-T impact site in southeast Mexico as revealed by surface features and geophysical analysis
That’s what the headline says sans the question mark I put in at the end, added because I am skeptical. And while it’s certainly interesting research, it’s fair to say that header looks a teensy-tiny bit over the top, perhaps intended to grab pageviews. Which in all fairness seems to have worked! [Read more…]
Not to blow my horn or anything, because there’s no way to verify it, but in those comfy days of yore when I had a higher paying and far more stressful job, I used to make of a variation of the material below part and parcel to my pitch for clients to buy tech stocks: [Read more…]
Several nations across the EU foolishly experimented with “austerity” and one name-brand casualty has paid with his political career. Others will almost certainly follow: [Read more…]
Normal moon left, super moon right, click image for embigulation
Alas, the weather did not cooperate here in Central Texas for viewing the super moon. But we did get some badly needed rain. There were clear skies in other parts of the world though, and many photos have been posted. I’ll be adding a few below the fold throughout the morning. [Read more…]
The secretive Democrat/Atheist/Muslim National US Alliance, aka DAMN-US-ALL, scored another big victory in the War on Christmas this week when the official White House Christmas tree was lost through “mismanagement” and “negligence”: [Read more…]
Maybe charts like that help explain the earlier post about Mendacious Mitt. No one would argue TPM and Daily Kos are non-partisan sites. But they’re accurate. [Read more…]
Steve Benen has been cataloguing Mitt Romney’s lies and it has become quite a list. There is something new going on here we haven’t seen before in presidential politics. It’s not just that Mittens garnishes his speeches with a few zombie lies, it’s that he lies so continuously that his entire stump speeches are now nothing but one easily debunked lie piled on top of another from end to end. It’s unprecedented. Here’s a just a few of Romney’s serial whoppers, the rebuttals are linked in the original piece: [Read more…]
When last we heard from the Heartland Insitute, they were reeling from a leaked document revealing their duplicity and hypocrisy. The same jokers are back with an ad campaign comparing climate scientists to murderers and madmen like bin Laden and the Unibomber: [Read more…]
Romney has only himself to blame for what is shaping up to be yet another looming campaign screw up created by eagerly inserting his foot into his partisan mouth before thinking. A few days ago, a Chinese dissident under house arrest managed to sneak away and make it to the US embassy. Imagine the embarrassment and heads rolling over that in the People’s Republic: a blind guy essentially broke out of jail guarded by the Chinese gestapo. They wanted him back, real, real bad. [Read more…]