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Academic luftmensch takes reality shower

Tomorrow is my first day teaching for the fall semester. Not my first by decades, but distinguished for me by a deeply dismaying failure of my company's leadership and of the State of California's political machinery. The second has been discussed ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  27 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency

Engaging with the physical world

A roommate at the time, Ben Fairbank, happily announced one day that the family was very excited about the imminent publication of his aunt's cookbook. Full of snotty youthful arrogance, I assumed on the spot that this had to do with some sort of ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  2 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Julia Child,  AB Volvo,  Home Depot, Inc.,  Alfred Brendel,  Julio Lugo

More on museum parties

The 'reviews' gathered in this group nicely illustrate the tension this marketing initiative raises (and the careless flacky reporting typical of arts coverage other than straight reviews). On the one hand, a bunch of people get together in the evening ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  17 Jul 2009

Museums as party/dating/meeting venues

In fact, I wonder that museums haven't become a favored place for educated young people to meet strangers : you're assured that anyone there is enough like you to be worth at least some schmoose, it's safe, and all the stuff in the previous paragraph. ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  14 Jul 2009

Sad day at the aquarium

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of the real jewels in the Bay Area's cultural/educational crown. My wife and daughter-the-middle-school-math-and-science-teacher and I spent the day there, revisiting a place we knew well when the kids were younger. It ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  13 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Museum of Natural History

With friends like these...

The Iowa Democrat, a major advocate for ethanol, also wants to expand opportunities for the corn-based version of the fuel. He said he would like to include language that would raise the amount of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline from 10 ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  U.S. Democratic Party

Green jobs and climate

George Will has an important column today about the economic cost of Spain's wind energy program. Unfortunately, as is his habit, he allows himself to be entranced by the sound of his own voice and wit, and forgets both what he started out to talk ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  25 Jun 2009
Related Topics: George Will,  Barack Obama

When do you sacrifice a policy hit for a principle?

An environmental colleague I respect says throwing ILUC (and the federal Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which I care about much less) and I infer, the coal utility certificate giveways overboard for a climate bill was "a deal they had to make". Had to? How ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Science and the planet sold out for a bowl of grits

Waxman also consented to block EPA from calculating "indirect" greenhouse gas emissions from land-use changes when implementing the federal biofuels mandate. The Democrats will impose a five-year moratorium to allow further study of the issue, with ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  24 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Environmental Protection Agency,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress,  United Stated Department of Agriculture,  George W. Bush

More on biofuels and legislating against science

Last week I posted an alert for the appropriations subcommittee markup session in which the profoundly dangerous Emerson amendment was defeated by 29-30 votes. It's already a shocker that 29 representatives would raise their hands for something so ...

From MICHAEL O'HARE, The Reality-Based Community,  20 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Federal Reserve,  NASA,  Environmental Protection Agency

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