Daily Archives: November 16, 2015

[A despotic] government always [keeps] a kind of standing army of newswriters who, without any regard to truth or to what should be like truth, [invent] and put into the papers whatever might serve the ministers. This suffices with the … Continue reading →

“Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning” Sunrise in Boulder this morning

In 1988, NASA’s James Hansen claimed droughts re getting worse, and that the odds of drought in the 1950’s were only one in twenty.  FEROCIOUS STORMS AND DROUGHT SEEN – NYTimes.com The exact opposite has happened. and in fact the … Continue reading →

“football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” ? George Orwell, 1984