August 7, 2009
Science Friday: Tagging Tuna
Tagging tuna, below, or watch it here.
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August 5, 2009
Post Office or Kinko’s – You Decide
Nate Silver has a funny post referencing his experiences with the United States Post Office as the powers-that-be debate whether to close some offices to reduce a yawning budget gap. He’s had some terrible experiences at government-run U.S. Post Offices but feels that the privately run FedEx Kinko’s is even worse. Here in the Nat’s Cap, I tend to agree: the Eastern Market FedEx Kinko’s is almost always unbearably bad (lack of staff, lack of stuff), while the USPS across the street is actually quite well run. I typically only go to Kinko’s for printer paper, but for some reason I always leave there grumbling. USPS, not so much. Perhaps the real reason I favor the USPS over Kinko’s is because the post office is on the same side of the street as my favorite coffee shop, Peregrine Espresso.
August 4, 2009
Sporadic Vacation Blogging: The Everglades
We popped over to Naples from Jupiter, swinging through Alligator Alley. Although, according to this history of the Everglades, the mix of salt and fresh water allows crocodiles and alligators to live side by side. We did not see either, sadly.
July 31, 2009
Science Friday: The Mystery of Lightning
The mystery of lightning, watch it here.
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July 30, 2009
House Health Care Markup
C-SPAN is covering the House Energy and Commerce Committee health care markup today. The morning session is archived; the afternoon session is on again after a recess. Read the amendments as well as the full bill on the C-SPAN home page.
It’s very possible that soon there will be an actual committee-passed bill that people can read and that outside groups can analyze while members take their European-length summer vacations.
Hopefully, lawmakers will spend some time entertaining questions from the anxious citizenry; a recent poll showed something like 94 percent of Americans would be concerned if Congress failed to enact meaningful health care reform. When practically ALL of us agree, lawmakers should be on notice and prepared to defend the particulars. And to act.