On the Nature of Things | Forum

Well, I wouldn't say "as often as not." There is certainly bad radio, but if it's commercial it either doesn't last long or it stays local and on quiet time slots. The thing about talk radio is that it's a stream of pure information that goes on for hours, and after a while listener's BS d...

Excuses: 1) I am too busy with work. a. Valid reason, but also fundamentally places the individual in a subservient serf role. This is a tough one to deal with for the individuals themselves. Work and family can be exhausting, especially in a bad economy where people have to overwork just to feel s...

I've read that the hardest hurdle is the exercising step. But even after that, I can't imagine what will have to be added to the product for it to taste good (normal?). After all the chemicals and preservatives, it probably won't be organic, so the health-conscious will remain wary. But a lot of oth...

Here is someone from Anonymous claiming that the hack was "not the work of Anonymous." Stratfor has been purposefully misrepresented by these so-called Anons and portrayed in false light as a company which engages in activity similar to HBGary. Sabu and his crew are nothing more than oppor...

Around the time that I'd first posted to the Spengler board, Anthropogenic Global Warming fear mongering was still going on throughout much of the Western world. It was always on TV, in print, and people were talking about it. Since Spengler essays dealt with the end of civilizations, or it not bein...

Typhoon wrote:The global climate will continue to fluctuate.

Smartest one I've heard yet.

Thanks for posting these. Looks great so far. I like how they're playing it straight and not showing any aliens that we'd recognize. It's going to be more of a haunted thing, where you know it's off in the distance, somewhere in the dark, and you never see it. That's the kind of fear our ancestors l...

Something like this means very little to Tea Partiers. It's well understood that House Republicans are merely running down the clock until Nov. 2012.