Living on the Real World
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
My New Year’s resolution for 2016.
“If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.” – Will Rogers “Your system is perfectly designed to achieve the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Mary, did you know?
Work for the American Meteorological Society, and soon you’re using “meteorology” to refer to more than terrestrial weather. You come...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Congress signals its intentions toward the geosciences.
“The federal budget is a policy statement.” – widely-quoted Washington aphorism, of unknown origin. “Here’s the way to look at...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
The Paris postulate: the hidden assumption in the latest climate accord.
Postulate (n.) something taken as self-evident or assumed without proof as a basis for reasoning. – dictionary.com Read the draft...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Progress! The Paris climate accord.
“How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along! It’s like costly anointing oil flowing down head and beard,...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Congress, scientists, and the subpoenas: the Prequel.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stepping back from the cliff… completing the thought.
“There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix”...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Stepping back from the cliff… continued.
“…With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Congress, scientists, and the subpoenas – stepping back from the cliff.
“…Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that...
Living on the Real World, Perspectives
Wrong! Yet again.
The concerned wife phoned her husband, who was out on the road: “Honey, be careful out there! The TV says...
