If I ever have the opportunity to read something else on global warming that is as concise, well-written, broad-ranging and sensible as this Freeman Dyson piece, I will be extraordinarily lucky.
(Source: the New York Review of Books)
If I ever have the opportunity to read something else on global warming that is as concise, well-written, broad-ranging and sensible as this Freeman Dyson piece, I will be extraordinarily lucky.
(Source: the New York Review of Books)
As I mentioned over at Catallaxy, I’m one of those erstwhile lefties who decided that I didn’t want to visit the USA as a callow youth, and then - despite my politics shifting as time passed - I never got around to it. Read more »
Before winter set in here in Melbourne, I picked up my daughter from creche.
The carer said, “She didn’t eat any lunch, but she ate all the afternoon tea, which was nachos.”
I was curious. “What was lunch?” I asked.
The carer sighed. “Salad,” she said. I gave her a wry look.
“Yes,” she said, interpreting my wry look correctly, “none of the two year olds eat their salad. But we have to serve food like that because of this emphasis on childhood obesity and healthy eating.” Read more »
Kim over at LP is engaged in an interesting but - in my view - ultimately fruitless discussion of the relative merits of Big Brother. Unfortunately, all this is by the by. Big Brother may be socially illuminating, an interesting commentary on class, a reflection of broader Australian cultural trends, etc. I do not quibble with Kim’s account on those points. The problem is its objective quality as television. Read more »
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