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  • Global warming consensus: bait and switch

    Whether or not we experiencing anthropogenic climate change is not the interesting or difficult issue; rather, what could or should be done to adapt to, or prevent global change - of all sorts, not just climate mediated change - is where we should have information, and debate. But the consensus-mongers among us are trying to push the view that ...
    Posted to The Spectator by Marcus61 on August 10, 2008

  • Doomsday mostly on kilter but still too alarmist

    Having spent altogether more than 1 year on missile alert as well as many other assorted related assignments, I think the article was good except for Ron Rosenbaum's naive willingness to take crew members' musings as unmitigated fact. A lot of crewmembers do indeed espouse dark-humor but often pass on rumor and half-truths as gospel. They are ...
    Posted to The Spectator by QuantumSam on October 22, 2007

  • the israeli lobby

    moral imagination is empathy, and all self-aware people have it. red-necks, right-wing conservatives, and certain fundamental religious sects don't because they see the world as black & white, right & wrong. absolutism delivers one from the restraints of empathy by claiming it to be a weakness. anti-semitism is only alive at the fringes, ...
    Posted to The Spectator by LUNARDIALER on September 23, 2007

  • A new holocaust? LMAO!

    Hmm, so the country with enough nukes to end all human life in Middle East is under threat of annihilation? From whom? The military might of shattered Lebanon? The skeleton crew army of Egypt which has a peace treaty with Israel? Oh right, Iran. Yeah they're that stupid to send a bomb and get nuked. Sure. What a silly response to a serious issue. ...
    Posted to The Spectator by rorschach on September 21, 2007

  • ICBM Fail-Safe Nuts and Bolts

    A friend of mine is a retired US Air Force missleman. He spent a number of years in that duty, as many Air Force officers do, before he received a psychological down-check and was medically retired. Apparently this is not an unusual phenomenon among the guys who spend their careers down in the launch capsules of the missile force. Sitting around ...
    Posted to The Spectator by Cyrano on September 1, 2007

  • Dire winds, but I sense a strange lack of disturbance in the force.

    Too many people have forgotten the true danger of nuclear weapons. It is not that terrorists will (yes, will - no matter how we struggle against it, someone, sometime will get the materials or a preassembled bomb) flatten a city. No, the truly terrible thing is that we are never more than thirty minutes away from the end of modern ...
    Posted to The Spectator by ked on August 31, 2007

  • careful with those literary references

    ''Blair is not a wild-eyed Cassandra raising unsupported suspicions.'' Do Aeschylus some justice: Cassandra's curse for failing to bear Apollo a child was to tell the truth but never to be believed. She foretells in gruesome detail the murder of Agamemnon, as she had foretold the fall of Troy, but she was not believed in either ...
    Posted to The Spectator by Joe M. on August 31, 2007