I Love Cynics!

I know I harp on the missile defense system an awful lot. I really feel that it is a bad idea, and anything I can do to help get information out about it must be good. Well, that’s what I like to think anyway.
When Pres. Bush recently went to Canada, he lectured the Prime Minister […]

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Today’s News-Miner contained a front page story regarding the Kodiak launch facility, and it’s use in the missile defense system being installed in Alaska. When the facility first opened, I was excited about the commercial venture, and bringing Alaska into the competitive world of satellite launching businesses.
Alaska occupies an excellent position for bringing satellites […]

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It’s like the domino theory in reverse. The world isn’t going to fall to communism any time soon. But a distorted version of democracy is spreading. As one nation falls, another watches the approaching shadows.
As President Bush enters another term, his eyes are focused on a singular goal: spreading democracy. It’s not the democracy we […]

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Removed the need to register to reply to articles. The reason I did that to begin with was the insane amount of blog spam I was receiving when I first opened up the site. I think I’ve got a decent set of filters going now, but spammers are always finding new ways to […]

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It’s a sobering notion: The defense of this nation could fail because of a single line of code in the control software of a missile.
According to most news sources today, the cause of the failure of the missile defense test in December can be traced to a single line of code in the software that […]

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Today the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ran an article stating that ConocoPhilips has left the Arctic Power coalition.
Arctic Power was founded in 1992 with the goal of opening up the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. According to the News-Miner article, the group gets most of its funding from the […]

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There is some amount of pleasure in being too little to truly remember the 70s. Sure, I was eight when the decade came to an end, but I was young and naive. The 80s were like totally my generation.
Then, a book like Interior Desecrations by James Lileks comes along, and spoils it for […]

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