Merry Christmas, fellow atheists…
…and everyone else too, of course. There seems to be a lot of rather silly commentary on what holiday greeting should and should not be utter in various equations. I’m…
December 2013
Get a More 22 cats book for Christmas
Download this book to view on your new Christmas tablet. It’s free. It’s a PDF. It’s digital. It’s tiny. It’s cool. A tiny delightful book of cat art Download from…
The Craigslist Christmas eve scam.
So I have a few items up for sale on Craigslist. Last evening I got a query, asking email and phone number, and is the item still available? Yes, and…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Decorated cats.
The Economic Case Against the Tar Sands, Part 1: Why Our Best Future Economic Indicator is 2 Degrees Celsius
2 degrees Celsius is fast becoming the most critical number of the 21st Century. It is the number on which economic decisions are going to have to be based on…
Bah Humbug!
Physicists who want to protect traditional Christmas realize that the only way to keep from changing Christmas is not to observe it. (via xkcd) That is all.
Of "Porn Filters" and Agendas
Remember July this year, when Joy Smith stood up in Canada’s Parliament and suggested we should follow the UK’s example and implement a “porn filter”? Well, Cameron’s filter is about…
Gavin Schmidt on Advocacy
From AGU originally posted, by Michael Tobis on Planet3.0. Posted here mostly for my own records
The Gay Genius Alan Turing is Finally Pardoned
It's taken more than half a century of bigotry and prevarication, but the gay computer genius and war hero Alan Turing has finally been pardoned. Mathematician Alan Turing, who helped…
Canadians get lots of coal, oil and gas in holiday trash dump
The Friday night trash dump is a well-known trick of governments looking to dispense with bad news as quietly as possible. Controversial announcements are made in the last hour of…
Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noël! Feliz Navidad!
TweetWherever you find yourself these this week, I hope you have the opportunity to enjoy your time in the warm company of family and friends. Merry Christmas. As is annual…
The Day a Federal Panel Overruled B.C. — And Nobody Noticed
On the afternoon of Dec. 19th, as the National Energy Board’s recommendations on Enbridge’s oil tanker and pipeline proposal for B.C. were released, I tuned into CBC Newsworld and CTV…
See you in the New Year
After a frenzy of posting to kick off this blog, I’ll be taking a bit of time off from now until the New Year. All the best to you and…
Will 2013 Be Remembered as the Year We Discovered the "R" Word?
Looking back, it seems like I heard a lot of the R-word this year. I heard it all the time from Chris Hedges. I heard it from Naomi Klein. I…
A story of Egg Nog
A story of Egg Nog Filed under: art
Greed + Government Cuts Erode Society [Bah, Humbug!]
The greedy and selfish among us are NOT on our side. Happy Christmas Eve! I hope you’re all giving lots of money to charities because ’tis the season and all…