[break for lunch — them, not me — will reconvene at 4:15 EDT, 2:15 MDT] Wow. This has been great fun, and the discussion and debate for the most part has been pointed, intelligent, and sharp (with exception to the occasional lame references to the Florida 2000 election). I’m going to be gone for a […]
An elephant hunter usually gets killed by an elephant. — Swahili proverb From Contemplate, one of my daily blogs (this link gives you a random proverb each time you read it). ..bruce w..
Gerard Van der Lune — one of the best writers in the Blogosphere — does a Saturday stroll through Seattle’s University District: Saturday was an especially good day for seeing the University District as it really is. It was Street-Fair Saturday and, as I remarked to my friend after strolling a couple of blocks, the […]
For the past several months all eyes have been focused on the ongoing mess that is the remains of the Democratic primary. The untold and emerging story is the impending beating that the Republicans are likely to take in November. In interest of full disclosure I consider myself a conservative and tend to vote Republican […]
I am a great fan of Jonah Goldberg’s book, Liberal Fascism, for its willingness to go back and actually look at the historical rise of fascism (and Fascism) in the 20th Century, in our own country (under Woodrow Wilson), in Italy (under Mussolini), in Germany (under Hitler), and in Russia (under Stalin). Indeed, I consider […]
Click on image for greater detail Word via io9 that Purdue has put together a map of the US showing their guess of CO2 emission density. They call the System “Vulcan” and it’s interesting because there is no sensor grid for CO2. Instead Vulcan derives a guess on CO2 density from local air pollution data […]
Evil Bruce has been missing from this site for a few weeks, and I apologize for that. Readers of this site know that my primary focus is using new software tools to solve big, ugly business problems. Fortunately for my team the number of problems that are big and ugly seem to be expanding rapidly. […]
Here and elsewhere, I have decried the deliberate or inadvertent lack of historical perspective on current problems, particularly with regard to things military, and especially among the mainstream media and the Left. I come from a family with a strong and long history of military service and am myself a student of military history. My […]
Ted Bronson has posted a wonderful essay (“Dad and the GD Bricks“) over at The Line is Here about the lessons that creep up on us in life: Once the wall was down, the detail work came into play. Often, many of the bricks would just fall out of matrix with no mortar attached on […]
Eduard Burceag: a hero deserving recognition
He deliberately put himself at risk — and died — in order to save his wife’s life: MOUNT RAINIER — Battered by a blizzard on the slopes of this mountain, Eduard Burceag lay down in a snow trench, trying to use his body’s warmth to protect his wife, Mariana, from the 70-mph winds. Rangers alerted […]
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