Here's a good discussion of the great sorting on abortion in the US. https://reason.com/2022/05/06/when-ted-kennedy-was-pro-life-and-ronald-reagan-was-expanding-abortion-access/ For example: &qu… (View Post)

On nuclear waste: Years ago, I realized that someone who thought nuclear waste was a major problem was either misinformed, or dishonest. (Early on, some anti-nuclear activists were surprised by the p… (View Post)

Having read the header and some of the comments, I feel I should remind all of you that we should begin preparing for global cooling. It is, after all, inevitable. Two centuries ago, we got a small r… (View Post)

Thanks to Nigelb, Andy_Cooke, viewcode, Sean_F, and Malmesbury, for their guesses about that odd building. The picture was taken at Paradise, Washington, and shows the top of the old Henry M. Jackson… (View Post)

Since most of us are a little bit Neanderthal, it seems odd to attack anyone for "Neanderthalism". (The exceptions are mostly found in sub-Saharan Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nean… (View Post)