by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 5, 2008 | Asides
Michael Crichton dies of cancer. I still remember reading The Andromeda Strain and The Terminal Man, my first two Crichton reads, as a wee lad at my grandparent’s cabin in Twain Harte, CA. A challenging book for me then. I still find his books a good mindless...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 8, 2007 | Asides
ICECAP, the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, is the “…portal to all things climate for elected officials and staffers, journalists, scientists, educators and the public” and consists of a group of scientists that,...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 23, 2007 | Asides
Don’t know whether I like being on the same page as Pat Buchanan or not, but it appears that he holds the same point of view that I do regarding the whole global warming thing. Not to be trite, but on a day like today (70º in NY on October 22) the whole idea of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 15, 2007 | Commentary, Featured, HousePosts
Blog Action Day—October 15, 2007 Today, for those of you not yet in the know, is Blog Action Day. A day where tens of thousands of bloggers (over 15,800 as of today) focus the day’s post on one subject. This year’s theme? The environment. I’ve...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 25, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts
It appears that the insurance industry is blowing up a category 5 storm of their own… Newsweek is reporting this week that people living near coastal regions are increasingly finding it ever more more difficult to get homeowner’s insurance, if they can get...
