So we have 3.2% of station touching science. The other 96.8% of the people are keeping this place from being overrun by the environment and preparing it for the wave of people at summer. It gives you an interesting perspective on how harsh this place is when you realize that your overhead has to be so high.
In my previous blog I talked about the effectiveness of the RILA on lobbying congress and how it illustrates the methods that FCNL and others teach about changing the face of our legal/policy reality. Something that bothers me about this though, which I did not mention in the blog, is the fairly obvious reality that … Read more
Two blogs in one week after such a dry spell, it’s crazy I know, but I’m feeling in the mood to write these days. I wanted to highlight a few things based on my experience at FCNL, in DC/Congress, and in my understanding of human nature from this excerpt of this article in the NY … Read more
I also know that all of this is an irrational feeling, one that is based on our irrational programming.
When it comes to rational verse irrational, irrational generally wins, and that’s why you have markets that panic and cause devastation. That’s why people irrationally do things (like save money) when the best thing for our market is to spend money. (Assuming that our market is sustainable and sensible, which I won’t stipulate.)
I’m wacked out on over the counter drugs and prescriptions for yet another sinus infection that’s been lingering for the last 2 weeks. I’m home this weekend, trying to take it easy, listening to my heart beat, trying to distract myself from the pain in my head. What does one do during such a time? … Read more
These maps represent the status quo and are a snapshot of a progression (the same as if we were to simulate evolution in a computer model). Some times we go one direction, some times we head another,
I got out of DC yesterday and spent several wonderful hours wandering around polyface farms in the Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia. 3 hours of a drive from DC, it was well worth the trip as we managed to shuttle past the persistent rainstorm settled atop DC for the beautiful weather at Polyface Farms. For … Read more
My housemates an I were enjoying another spontaneous dinner gathering–one never knows what percentage of 8 people plus signfigant others might show up–and with the Washington Post strewn about our table as normal, I asked what they thought of the current Tibet situation. What resulted was an interesting half-in-hour conversation that brings home the reason … Read more
Bobby’s house is flapping in the wind. As one of the residents of New Orleans whose house was flooded by 3 breeches surrounding the Lower 9th Ward during Hurricane Katrina, she came back and paid 131,000 dollars for a house that’s a shell of completion. Her shell sits on 10 foot concrete stilts next to … Read more
At least once a day lately I am reminded how we live on a body based on several million years of randomly permutated designs that proved to be the most fit for the enviornment. Yet in most cases evolution was on a scale and of a term that no human has witnessed. In contrast our … Read more