THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Noticieros Televisa’s weather presenter Sugey Abrego. Mexican weather forecasting is something else. Might be hard to concentrate on the temps, trends and fronts with her in your face. Via Planck’s Constant. And Sugey is not alone.

Our forecast for the week suggests we may beat the anticipated continuation of our drought and get up to four inches of rain by Friday. Got about an inch at the Rancho on Saturday night and more is expected tonight and tomorrow. Moist ground would also lower our daytime temperatures this summer. Via WeatherBELL UPDATE: [...]

Real scientists (as opposed to those corrupted by the federal dole) know the climate is far too complicated for any computer model yet devised to measure what’s happening today, let alone a hundred years in the future. Like they say, GIGO:  garbage in, garbage out. So this is not a surprise: “49 former NASA scientists [...]

A photographic (and musical) tribute to West Texas—from the Rio Grande to the Palo Duro. By the official Texas state photographer Wyman Meinzer. Take a look. Via old friend (even if he is a Democrat) Tucker Smallwood.

Thus, you have one Oregon professor proclaiming that skepticism about climate change (previously known as global warming until the warming stopped about fifteen years ago) is evidence of a mental disease requiring treatment. Meanwhile, an Arkansas university “research team” has concluded (very scientifically I’m sure) that political conservatism is a sign of low intelligence or [...]

Now here’s an idea that, if it’s really as promising as the initial claims suggest, could not only solve the so-called energy crisis (promoted by the radical Greens who want to stop drilling for available oil and gas), but global warming (to the extent it’s really a problem) and, gasp, climate change. If Obamalot really is [...]

As a recovering journalist, my memories of the job come and go, some quite indistinct—like this tornado recollection I left at JD Allen’s place not long ago: “I ‘chased’ one in the Panhandle one time so the photographer I was working with could get a decent shot of it. He was driving. We were about [...]

It was a pleasure to meet the real Rough Rider and Bull Moose in his most difficult moments, in The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. Although it was very disquieting to learn the harsh fate of his sons. This is quite a good book, which deftly shows the value of civic virtues we [...]

I’ve had Tinnitus, a ringing in the ears, since I came home from the Vietnam War in 1970. Although it can have several medical origins, I’ve always attributed it to months of being in close proximity to the staccato noise of machine guns and automatic rifles. Last night I was awaked by what sounded like [...]

The usual shrill babble and punchy trailer clips are flogging John Carter, Disney’s remake of Edgar Rice Burrough’s 1917 novel Princess of Mars, but it looks like a kiddie combo of Hercules and Avatar. The bad guys burn coal, you see, and are damaging the Martian atmosphere. Uh oh. John Carter is a Confederate soldier [...]