I Love Cynics!

Dear News-Miner editorial writers,
Please explain to me how you can reconcile the following two sentences:
And in that debate, there are people who play loose with the facts and who make statements based on an emotional attachment to the wolf and all that its supporters say it embodies.
Many people just can’t bring themselves to see the [...]

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Went to the Chena Hot Springs Renewable Energy Fair this weekend. I got there much later than I anticipated, and missed some of the talks. I have to say, one of the more interesting ones was the speech by Sen. Inouye of Hawaii.
In Alaska, we pride ourselves on our self-sufficiency and isolation from the “lower [...]

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What happened to the damn Cajun food place??? Where will I go to get my jambalaya fix? Where to go to get a good Crawfish Étouffée? Ah well, the Alaska Seafood place was there to save the day with a good fried halibut pocket.
I had to wander back to the fairgrounds today to pick [...]

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A momentary sigh of relief. A couple of years ago, I wrote here about the possible damage from the dumping of tailings into Slate Lake by the Kinsington Mine. I then let it slip off my radar. Good news came today.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, CA, ruled today that the [...]

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Outdoor Photographer has a section labeled “Favorite Places” where they request people send in photos of their… duh … favorite places. They then select some for their website. I submitted a few photos, not really thinking much, since I didn’t think my photos were up to par with what I’d seen there.
I was wrong. One [...]

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Scientific consensus, particularly when it comes to global warming, is a much misunderstood and often misrepresented term. At it’s simplest, the term means that through a process of experimentation and peer review a scientific concept has been accepted, without any substantial doubt, by the scientific community.
This happens to be the case for global warming, where [...]

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It’s official, Governor Murkowski is out. This is a welcome relief to the many Alaskans worried about his gas/oil dealings, his shady nepotism and general untrustworthiness. With three republican candidates to choose from in last nights primaries, Murkowski came in dead last. A condemning verdict from the Alaskan people.
Sarah Palin, formerly a mayor of Wasilla, [...]

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This weekend I attended the 1st Annual Chena Renewable Energy Fair. While it was a drizzly gray day, the plethora of interesting booths, and the tour of Chena Hot Springs Resort’s new geothermal electric plant was to big of a draw to keep me away.
The plant is the first geothermal plant in Alaska and is [...]

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There is nothing quite like a local paper’s Letters to the Editor section to make you realize how crazy people you live near are. Whether it’s the poor writing styles, freaky ideas, or logical fallacies used to make a point, there is usually plenty there to make you feel intellectually superior. And we all know [...]

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I like it when I can say something nice about my state’s representatives. On Tuesday, Alaska Senator Ted Stevens introduced legislation that should help unburden over-fished regions, and to make fisheries management more answerable to scientific advisors. To put it mildly, this makes me happy.
One thing I often harp on is that it seems politicians [...]

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