Advice & Dissent

Aug17

The Polish Joke May Be Dead but Sentiment Lives On

Washington Post item: "Driver Dies After Hitting Pole" NOTHING in the story about what happened to the poor Pole!Read More
Aug5

Bring out your dead! The plague is back!

Swine flu, move over! The plague is back - at least in China, where it's now killed three people in the province of Qinghai. A single outbreak of the plague from 1348 - 1351, called "The Black Death," is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population. THEREFORE, we…Read More
Aug4

Study submitted for publication April 1 shows man-made warming very real!

Okay, you climate change skeptics, try to respond to this. A just-published study, submitted on April 1, uses an exquisite model to show that just the amount of greenhouse gas emanating from the U.S. Capitol Building each year will contribute to a global rise in temperature of…Read More
Aug2

Four months of swine flu deaths finally equal 1 seasonal flu day

The WHO now reports 816 flu deaths worldwide, since the first cases in March. Seasonal flu, it says, kills 250,000 to 500,000 people each year, or 744 to 1488 deaths. So after over four months, we've finally got swine flu cases equal to those at the lower end of the range for a…Read More
Aug2

"Not Quite Real," my Philly Inquirer piece about EOD in Iraq

One word keeps appearing in reviews of The Hurt Locker, the critically acclaimed war film: realism. In fact, as I note in my Philadelphia Inquirer piece, the incidents in the film are grossly unrealistic - as I know from having been a combat engineer myself and having embedded…Read More
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