Archive for June, 2010
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 29, 2010
The last two days of session are not like the other days of session. How are they different? Let me count the ways: 1. While the House and Senate may still post an agenda (or agendas), dozens of other bills can and will be considered. This makes the last two days the most dangerous days […]
Vulcans Rule, Klingons Drool
The Obama Administration has set a new course for US Space policy that embraces arms control. Actually the arms control policy is an old course favored by Reagan, Bush I and Clinton, but not Bush II (is anyone surprised?). President Obama’s team will look to international cooperation instead of the “Go it alone” attitude favored by Bush and Cheney.
Three Is The Magic Number
Paul Krugman opines that we might be well on our way to a third depression.
The Politics of Science
Science writer Chris Mooney (Unscientific America and The Republican War on Science) has a recent column in The Washington Post about how scientists need to approach the general populous in getting their facts heard and understood. Mooney looks at climate change denialism, anti-vaccine hysteria and Yucca Mountain. (He doesn’t include opposition to evolution or denial […]
I Call Shenanigans
An essay supposedly written by an 11-year-old boy details the horrible discrimination he’s faced since pre-school.
Death by iPhone?
Admittedly, I find Maureen Dowd as useless as Christine O’Donnell. Her column today, “Are Cells the New Cigarettes”, begs the question, Is Dowd the new David Broder? I’ll skip all of Dowd’s references to bad science, but the one item she stumbles upon I found quite interesting. As San Francisco was debating whether or not […]
The Delaware Poker Beat #1: Two Suggestions to Make Delaware Gaming Even Better!
Since we’ve decided to balance our state budget on the backs of old age pensioners that need to carry oxygen bottles everywhere they scooter, and since I play poker (badly) and will no doubt find myself losing money in Harrington, Dover and Delaware Park sooner or later I’m going to take the gambling beat here at DL. (cont…)
A Path to Good High-Paying Jobs in Delaware
You may not know it, but there is a jobs bill in Dover that can’t seem to get a vote. Speaker Gilligan has been dragging his feet on putting the jobs bill on the floor. I am a little amazed by that fact, since it is a jobs bill that doesn’t even have a fiscal […]
Who is Contacting Me? for June 26 2010
Ken Matlusky contacted me via post card. Chris Coons contacted me via email (cont…)
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