I’ve given up on being a shrill dissenter. After all, most of us are dissenters these days, aren’t we? The more time you spend with shrill dissenters, the more you realize that most of them are just intolerable. They’re opportunistic, they oversimplify, they mischaracterize; in short, they’ll say anything to put down [...]

Posted on May 12th, 2006 by Lee
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I’ve been quite enamored of the Environmental Economics blog of late. John and Tim have great things to say–especially regarding the recent spike in gas prices and all the hubbub it’s caused. If you’re the type of person that has an interest in energy issues (and who doesn’t these days), this is a [...]

Posted on May 4th, 2006 by Lee
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Remember back when I sent in that angry letter to the editor that didn’t get published regarding some comments made by Ithaca Democrat Nathan Shinagawa? Yeah, okay it was a while back.
Remember when I dug through my site statistics and found evidence of him Googling himself and finding my letter that never got published?
It [...]

Posted on April 16th, 2006 by Lee
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India receives 90% of its rain during monsoon season so forecasting monsoons is critical for productive farming. Fortunately, according to an article in Nature (subs. req.), the Indian Meteorological Department has found a way to make its forecast better than any other available - they have suppresed publication of the other forecasts. The [...]

Posted on August 10th, 2005 by Lee
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OK, so bitching about the Shrub seems to be out of style these days. And I probably missed the boat on this one anyway. But this is just too good to pass up.
Jim Infantino of Jim’s Big Ego, in his infinite wisdom, has said it more eloquently than I ever could. WTFMFWTFAYT!?!
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Posted on December 5th, 2004 by Lee
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