BurningbirdEveryone should have a Jan Sundberg. A nice bit of normalcy did rear it’s head — I’ve had my annual, “F**k you!” from Jan Sundberg. Ever since I first published my four-part articles on the giant squid and cryptozoology and mentioned his rather, shall we say, ‘dubious’ adventures, I’ve had an email once a year, […]
It seemed a bit cooler this evening. When the roommate got home with the car, I hauled my butt down to Powder to go for a walk. The air quality is so bad that it appeared as smudges against the sky, with only a bit of true cloud showing through — touched with red gold […]
Danny Ayers has the start of a great RDF 101 titled RDF, Bottom Up, with promises of more to come. I’ve been working on something similarly named, but quite different in tone for some time now. Just so’s you know, when I every finally get around to putting this online, I didn’t steal the name from […]
I am actually very fond of the online site for the local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I’ve found over time that the site tends to provide a more balanced viewpoint on issues than not. And usually covers news with a strong sense of humanity. I think this is a mark of home town newspapers. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dr. Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground wrote an opinion piece on Katrina yesterday that discusses the concept that Katrina was an ‘Act of God’ and therefore something that couldn’t be foreseen. In response he wrote: A horror unimagined by anyone, except by every hurricane scientist and government emergency management […]