As I trundle off to a total knee replacement surgical procedure this morning I am thanking science and technology for providing this kind of opportunity to regain mobility. I also think of the incredible ability to predict the course of Hurricane Sandy and the tidal surges that will accompany this perfect storm. This science of meteorology and oceanography etc. will save many lives in the next few days.
However, I do not much appreciate the beating science and education are taking right now from the far right republican party. Their science book is the bible. That is the book written by fishermen and shepherds 2000 years ago. The GOP evens thinks if a woman gets raped that her body will know how to 'shut that whole thing down.' This comes from a republican senate candidate who was on his way to victory before he managed to make just about every female on the earth wonder what planet he came from. It is probably from the same place where the term 'clean coal' was thought up and the climate change deniers were funded and organized.
It is might also the place where the current publisher and editor of the Albuquerque Journal are getting their logic. On a day when their front page feature on the possible demise our forests from drought and heat is presented, they go ahead and endorse for Senate a puppet of the fossil fuel industry, Heather Wilson, over a sane and rational Martin Heinrich who looks to the future rather than the past. This all on a day when a friend sent an article about the richest people in every state of the union. The richest guy listed in New Mexico is Peyton Yates of Yates Petroleum with a fortune near $800,000,000.
I will be out of rational thought for a few days while I cruise in a sea of pain and painkillers in the hospital. I don't know when the fog might lift. I will check back in when I can string together a sentence.
It is might also the place where the current publisher and editor of the Albuquerque Journal are getting their logic. On a day when their front page feature on the possible demise our forests from drought and heat is presented, they go ahead and endorse for Senate a puppet of the fossil fuel industry, Heather Wilson, over a sane and rational Martin Heinrich who looks to the future rather than the past. This all on a day when a friend sent an article about the richest people in every state of the union. The richest guy listed in New Mexico is Peyton Yates of Yates Petroleum with a fortune near $800,000,000.
I will be out of rational thought for a few days while I cruise in a sea of pain and painkillers in the hospital. I don't know when the fog might lift. I will check back in when I can string together a sentence.
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There are a lot of people pulling for you including me, but I suppose by the time you see this you'll have successfully come through surgery, so congratulations!
PS; I wrote what turned out to be a long comment about your web log entry of today, but it turned out to be too long to go through, so I just converted it to a web log entry of my own.
I wish I could be as concise and to the point as you. I wonder if that comes from the background in TV.
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