Category: Science
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It’s SCIENCE!
You don’t DARE defy The Science (TM), do you?
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Tim Walz, The Avatar Of Science
Remember 2020? No. Never forget 2020. The Cathedral of Saint Paul seats 3000 people. Governor Klink arbitrarily limited to 10 people. No singing. The 617 bar in White Bear Lake seats 37 people Bars were limited to 50. No matter how many they started with. This is governance by “the party of science“. Never forget.…
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We Were Promised…
…a lot of things in the 21st century. Flying cars, food replicators, houses in the sky. Most of it crapped out. But this… …is certainly getting closer.
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Tortal Recall
Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: Uh…lawyers?
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Far Be It From Me To Question A “Scientist”
To: Amanda Taylor, Candidate for the Missouri HouseFrom: Mitch Berg, PeasantRe: SCIENCE!!! Ms. Taylor, Your bio claims you’re both a biochemist and running for the Missouri House Last week, you dropped an “Ack-Shyu-Ally” bomb on someone: So, question for Ms. Taylor: Let’s ignore for a moment that Karyotypes aren’t, themselves, “sexes”, rather than medical conditions…
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Mostly Peaceful
British climate protesters who blocked the London beltway get seriously slammed in court: Obstructing a highway is not simple political expression, and it is far from “peaceful protest.” It involves the physical obstruction of others’ freedom of movement. It is also disruptive and potentially tortious conduct that can have severe consequences. In this case, those…
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The Experts Have Spoken
As I noted a couple of years ago, I lost my mother to Alzheimers. There was no treatment that seemed to do anything useful. She went from first really noticeable symptoms to gone in about six years. Research on the disease has been heavily focused on exploring brain-protein anomalies noted in a paper led by…
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End Of The Beginning
Coming in the wake of the celebrations of the 90th anniversary of D-Day, it’d be easy to get hypoerbolic about this. But in today’s academic culture, making an announcement like this is a little like running off a Higgins boat with a BAR and running toward the muzzle flashes: “But they’re a small conservative group!…
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Verdict?
I may not have advanced the science of astrophysics in any meaningful way. I’ll take the “L” there. But I think I’ve got one thing on Steven Hawking: Since he isn’t reiterating this theory to us in person today, it’s clear his theory is at least half-wrong.
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The Real Problem
Metro Transit and the Strib have put out a “climate conscious newcomers guide to using Metro Transit”. It’s tempting to snark “they figure out who the real problem is”: Familiarize yourself with Metro Transit’s code of conduct, a lengthy and often-ignored rule book that mandates such things as keeping non-service animals in carriers, one seat…
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An Intellectual Palate Cleanser
Sunny Hostin on The View: Climate Change caused the eclipse, has brought out the cicadas: I wonder what “intellectual self-defense” looks like, legally? Because this woman is an immediate danger of destroying or gravely injuring the national intellect.
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Blast From The Past
One of the moments that made me realize my old former friend known to all of you as “Dog Gone” had slipped the surly bonds of reason was their claim that gender reassignment surgery altered the patient’s biological makeup at the DNA level – that it changed gender-related chromosomes [1] I told myself “nobody can…
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Purity Test
SCENE: Mitch BERG is cleaning out his garden boxes. Busy hauling stalks to the truck, he doesn’t notice Avery LIBRELLE, patrolling the alley, looking for over-filled recycling bins to report to the city. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Hey, Avery… LIBRELLE: Shut up. The GOP’s new Speaker of the House is anti-science. I have proof! BERG: Huh.…
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Settled Science
The part of me that works with engineers knows that for every decision where engineering meets design, there is an elaborately calculated rationale. And the other part of me thinks that the eighth-grade prankster in so many engineers has just pulled the prank of a lifetime.
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False Idols
“Don’t Create False Idols” is a Biblical commandment; essentially saying don’t turn God into a token object. It is important enough to the Christian faith to rate as one of the ten standing orders for the faithful. And, really, it’s great advice for life in general. For example – I’m not one who creates an…
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Remembering The CFL
No – not the Canadian Football League. That still exists, believe it or not. No – does a nyone out there remember the “compact fluorescent light”, or CFL?It seems like just yesterday when the green mafia wheedled the government into mandating the replacement of the incandescent bulb with the CFL – a miniature fluorescent tube…
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Things I’d Do If I Had A Time Machine
Speaking for myself? I”d go back and try to show… …well, not “the idiots who shut down nuclear power”, so much as the mushy minds that believed them, how much trouble and misery they would eventually cause around the world. Of course, destroying cornucopia in general is a goal of the totalitarian left. Poor people…
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It’s A Wet Heat
Minnesota Enviromaists: “We’ve never had a summer like this! This is proof the climate is… History: Minnesota Enviromaoists: “Why are you such a racist?”
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Peak Progressive
Spanish environment minister Teresa Ribera…: It seems to be all the rage among the “progressive” “elites” these days:
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Out: Greta Thunberg. In: Reddy Kilowatt
Big day for Greta on the blog today, huh? Sweden has ditched the Greens “100% Renewable” goal, doubled down on nukes: More than 40 years after the country voted to phase out nuclear power, Sweden is now looking to build more nuclear reactors after its parliament formally abandoned its 100% renewable energy target to meet…
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Borrowed Time
Some people are hopping up and down about Greta Thunberg’s prediction from five years ago: Me? I say we’re still on borrowed time from the Ozone Layer, the hole in which (we were told by noted physicist Ted Danson, was going to kill us in 10 years. Starting in 1988.
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I Love A Happy Ending
Whackjob environmentalist protesters crash a Swedish TV dance show. Robocam operator scores a two-fer: Consider my week made.
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When Reality Is Absurd, Parody Is Pointless
The University of Helsinki gives climate activist Greta Thunberg an honorary PhD in Theology . The Babylon Bee should sue for trademark infringement.
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Ripped From The Headlines Of Junk Pop Culture
Is there anything “climate change” (TM) can’t do? Like, spawn a zombie apocalypse? No, it’s no the Babylon Bee: Of course it’s Berg’s Seventh Law in effect; most adherents to the Religion of Climate are pretty much the Walking Intellectual Dead already.