John Yates was a commercial fisherman in the Gulf of Mexico. He was caught by a National Marine Fisheries Service agent with a large number of under-sized red grouper. The agent measured the fish, segregated the undersized fish and directed Yates not to destroy the fish. When the agent was gone, Yates ordered a crew member…
So Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon (PhD, Southern Cal, Aerospace Engineering) is revealed as a fraud. Soon, who has the same climatologist credentials as you and WC, has for some years spouted climate trutherism to anyone that would listen. It’s not very good science. But he’s been trundled out at committee hearings and conferences by anti-science…
Wasilla suffered yet another stupid gun injury Saturday. A 4-year old boy was shot in the leg when his mother’s .357 pistol fell out of her purse, struck the ground and fired. The bullet struck the 4-year-old just above the knee. There are so many things wrong in this incident. But let’s focus on the…
WC will be on semi-break the next week or so. It’s not a vacation; it’s more or less the opposite of a vacation. Depending on events, there may or may not be posts. /WC
WC and Mrs. WC were walking the grounds of a lodge less than a quarter mile from SeaTac International Airport. A portion of those grounds are a “recovered” wetland. The “recovery” seems mostly to have involved hauling away a lot of trash, but the result has been an island of habitat in a sea of…
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R, Exxon) announced to the Alaska Legislature last week that President Barack Obama plans to shut down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. WC can’t make this stuff up. Walking the same path that former Governor Sean “Captain Zero” Parnell used to scare Alaskans into giving Big Oil $2 billion dollars, she’s trying to frighten Alaskans into some…
Dale Chihuly is a truly extraordinary artist whose medium is epic scale hand blown glass. WC offers a few photos of his permanent exhibition in Seattle, “Chihuly Garden and Glass,” for your pleasure. This is a tiny, tiny fraction of the exhibit itself. Some of the sculptures are very large; all are three dimensional. They don’t…
WC is an unrepentant liberal. But a registered Independent. The Democrats have made mistakes; you can’t have lived through the Vietnam War without acknowledging that horrific example. But what has happened over the last 15 years is that the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln, has become so loathsome, so despicable that it…
Kaspersky Labs, the Russia-based computer security firm, has published a detailed analysis of what is almost certainly an NSA hack that has affected computers in at least 42 countries, some of them U.S. allies. Kaspersky calls the author of the malware the “Equation Group,” but there’s little question its the United States, and specifically the…
Senator Anna MacKinnon (R, Eagle River) is the new co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Her husband, John MacKinnon, is the executive director of Associated General Contractors of Alaska. Senator MacKinnon doesn’t think it’s a conflict of interest. She’s wrong. If you want to split hairs, it’s probably not a violation of the loosey-goosey Alaska…
He’s perhaps the most famous looter in history. Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, while serving as the rather grandly titled “Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty to the Sublime Porte of Selim III, Sultan of Ottoman Empire,” carried off half of the ancient treasures of the Parthenon and the Acropolis.…
Golden Eagles and, to a slightly lesser extent, Bald Eagles are the true kings of the North American skies. Sure, other birds will mob them sometimes, if they think the eagle is targeting their nests, but eagles are apex predators; they own the skies. Except that wind farms are thickets of high speed guillotines, the…
