Retired chemist. I've done a lot of chemistry that has to do with policy, particularly nuclear policy.
We’ve got a lively discussion going on impeachment already this morning. If you want to know if your representative supports impeachment, you can put your zip code in the blank at this website and find out. Press your representative hard if they’re a “no.” Send them good words if they’re a “yes.” At Ben Ray […]
Biden has a nice ad out in response to Trump’s and Giuliani’s attempts at smearing him. Desperate Donald Trump knows that I can beat him, so now he’s enlisting the help of a foreign government — once again. It’s an abuse of power and violates every basic norm of the presidency. We cannot give him […]
I’m going to be away from the keyboard the first part of today, but the strike for the planet’s climate has begun and is sweeping around the globe. I know there’s too much going on. What are you doing for the climate? Among the thousands of #GlobalClimateStrike protesters was this geographer. Huge crowd. Unable to […]
We’ve all been wondering about the subject of the whistleblower complaint being withheld by Acting DNI Joseph Maguire from the House Select Intelligence Committee. Tonight, Washington Post has a hint for us. Twitter is exploding with speculation, and why should they be the only ones? From Adam Schiff’s letter to Maguire, it can be surmised […]
An explosion, said to be of a gas cylinder, caused a fire at the Vektor research institute in Novosibirsk. The explosion took place on the fifth floor of a six-floor building, where a laboratory was being refurbished. This is a plausible explanation. How worried should you be? If you live outside Novosibirsk, not very. There […]