Erich's post about free college got me thinking: what if college and healthcare were both free? What if America's college-bound population -- the nation's intelligentsia -- could seriously consider getting married and having children at the same young age that the rest of the population tended to reproduced? What if…
Over the recent holiday I was fortunate to find several good films on DVD at my local public library. One I have just mentioned -- The Ox-Bow Incident. Another is a trilogy about evolution, produced by the BBC. The films are titled, "Walking with Monsters," "Walking with Dinosaurs," and "Walking…
I've recently seen an outstanding WWII-era movie called "The Ox-Bow Incident," starring Henry Fonda & Harry Morgan. The movie is ostensibly a western, set in a small Nevada town in the mid-19th century. However, unlike other western movies of its day, in which you can tell the good guys from…
The weather channel has now been accused of having a pro-weather bias. Weather Channel Accused of Pro-Weather Bias Also consider a more serious media-crit piece by the Onion: an interview of a hot air balloonist who keeps trying to make his point.
Corn ethanol is a terribly costly and damaging joke that has been inflicted on us by politicians looking for something that looks like a fix, rather than doing the much harder work to find real solutions to our energy problems. I've posted on corn ethanol before, and it's now time…