Category Archives: Cross-Posted

Criminal Negligence

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I am still fuming over the nonsense spewing from all sides in the recent school shooting incident.

Once more, our political class falls all over themselves in positioning to do nothing.

We send our kids into unsecure, unprotected open shooting galleries and demand useless things when it occurs over and over.

When all of these people were afraid of highjackers killing them, they demanded armed air marshals on planes. They demand their money is protected by armed guards. They want armed police to respond to a threat of violence in their home.

Yet they send their kids to an unsecure building where no one there can respond to an assailant armed with minimal weaponry.

It’s as if the children were expendable to make a political point. Oh wait…

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Book Review: The Berlin Project

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“The Berlin Project” by Gregory BenfordIn September 1938, Karl Cohen returned from a postdoctoral position in France to the chemistry department at Columbia University in New York, where he had obtained his Ph.D. two years earlier. Accompanying him was his new wife, Marthe, daughter of a senior officer in the French army. Cohen went to work for Harold Urey, professor of chemistry at Columbia and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of deuterium. At the start of 1939, the fields of chemistry and nuclear physics were stunned by the discovery of nuclear fission: researchers at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in … Continue reading →

When Things Don’t Make Sense

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When things don’t make sense, we make them make sense by supplying additional information which is either true or false, but which fills the gap.  I think a longer-term trend than simple disgust with the GOP, and to some extent with the DNC as the Clinton machine blows a rod, is the decay of an American Republic as seen in your Civics textbook.

We’ve always been plagued by the Art Bell / Alex Jones kooker crowd and their Libertarian Party locust. Call these people the early adopters, ready to fly away from reason (even while laying exclusive claim to “Reason”, a sign of derangement) at too little provocation. Then there are those who will never depart the pattern, but will drive right into a wall because there is … Continue reading →