I Love Beach Music

One of my favorite music genres. Shaggin' on the beach with a beer.

Moyers off the deep end

I think the man spent just a little too much time under the hot lights in the studio. This rant is crazy stuff.

Vintage Patton

Now, this is what I call a motivational speech. I suppose W, in a kinder, gentler way, has the same determination and perseverance that the good General had 60 years ago.  Put another way, 30 years from now W will tell his grand son that he really did something in the war on terror.

You’ve got to love leadership like this!

NCSU 80 - Clemson 70

Way to go Pack!

They did not die in vain

Wow! This says it all.

Thank you Francis, and Andy.

Harvard - Bastion of Free Speech?

Now that Larry Summers as sufficiently irritated every left wing nut case, a deeper discussion of the issues has ensued.  Can free speech and thought be allowed to flourish in our educational institutions?

Dr. Summers's comments - which he said were intended to provoke discussion about why women were underrepresented in top science posts - have ended up raising an even larger question: Have universities become so steeped in sensitivities that certain topics can't be openly discussed?

Free speech to these people is only when it is their free speech.

Good Advice to SUV'ers on Ice

We’ve all seen it. Crazed drivers in SUV’s who decide to go sledding on ice covered roads. When will the over-equipped, under-educated ever learn. I really don’t have much room to speak here. Many years ago, I was the proud driver of an old Jeep Wagoneer that got stuck so deep it took a tractor to pull it out. So there, for fairness in my rant.

Addendum: I have to pick on my sister's ex here too. He had one of those big Chevy 1500's. He stuck it deer hunting one evening in a central Alabama cotton field, which is composed of black gumbo soil, essentially super glue to a trucks tire. A tractor couldn't pull this one out. It finally took a log skidder to extract this puppy. We all live and learn.

Hollywood Thanks

Now I am sure the egos of our Hollywood elite will be able to “tolerate” this type of thank you.  Way to go Citizens United!

Blockbuster Branding

P&G and Gillette coming together create one of the most powerful portfolio of brands ever assembled. We may finally have a challenger who can stand up to Walmart.

Intelligent Design leads to Scientist's persecution

Amazing how secularists can dish it out but can’t take it. Here is the offending article.

Now that is what I call relief

Now this is what I call ingenuity.  And, you thought beer was bad for you.

Ouch! Pack drops another

Fl State 70 – NC State 64

Chirac tax

Now why am I not surprised that our favorite Frenchman would come up with a hair brain idea like this?

Another view on global warming

As an engineer with considerable background in thermodynamics, I have always been skeptical of the notion of man-made induced global warming. This article takes a step back and compares natural events (solar flares, volcanoes) to the impacts of human interaction with the atmosphere.

The energy output of the Sun is far greater in one second than human activity could produce in a million years.

Simple facts such as the one above frankly overwhelm the pseudo-scientific models put forth in the cry for emission curbs.

I learned along time ago that data can be manipulated to sell a point of view. Not that I subscribe to this view. In fact, I strongly disdain it. All of us can remember an easy example of data manipulation from high school math classes. When you plot a graph with a large scale or a small scale, the larger the scale is the flatter the data looks. There is more detail on how this is done to, say, tell one side of a story in court.

My impression is that the ENGO’s who are the loudest proponents of the global warming bombast are more interested in perpetuating their business model - how else can they raise revenue, er funding. Or, perhaps, they have a desire for a global governance structure - ahhhh – liberal nirvana. I apparently am not the only one seeing through the environmentalists' charade.

China is a big consumer of oil

Looks like we are increasingly getting competition for oil from the big beast from the east.

HT - Dad.

Passing Over the Passion

Well, as predicted the Hollywood elites snub The Passion. I think this was expected.

The Hildebeast Can't Find No Leadership

Well, well.  Looks like she will stand by her man after all.  Per the Hillster, Bill’s “leadership” was brilliant.

Conservatives need not apply for an honorable mention.

Nanotechnology and weapon systems

It appears that nanotechnology has made its way into the DoD and the next generation of weapons systems.

Researchers can greatly increase the power of weapons by adding materials known as superthermites that combine nanometals such as nanoaluminum with metal oxides such as iron oxide, according to Steven Son, a project leader in the Explosives Science and Technology group at Los Alamos.

"The advantage (of using nanometals) is in how fast you can get their energy out," Son says.

Son says that the chemical reactions of superthermites are faster and therefore release greater amounts of energy more rapidly.

"Superthermites can increase the (chemical) reaction time by a thousand times," Son says, resulting in a very rapid reactive wave.

Pack 85 - Terps 69

Pack lays the wood to the Terps.

When 1 plus 1 doesn't add up

And you wonder why people are frustrated with liberal educators.  The notion that mulitculturalism takes precedence over fundamentals is beyond the pale.