Author: Don Warrington

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Snowy Beauty, DOT Style

This, from (I think) south-western Virginia: Taken this day in 1987.

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Wake Up, South Florida Boomers: We Are the People We Made Fun Of

That is, we are becoming elderly drivers: Remember "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena"? Baby boomers who first danced to that 1964 pop hit about a granny burning up the road in her hot rod will begin turning 65 in January. Experts say keeping those drivers safe and mobile is a challenge with profound implications.... …

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It's "Mea Culpa" Time on the BBC for the Environmental Movement

As the Telegraph reports, it's a surprise it got on the Beeb at all, but there it is: This was no such programme. Instead, it was a platform for every sinner that repenteth. Former hippy Greens, directors of Greenpeace, the chairmen of the Copenhagen Climate Council and the like, queued up to admit error. Their …

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Health Care: If It's a Tax, It Should be Called One

That's the core issue of challenges to the health care law: When 21 states and several private groups initiated lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care law earlier this year, critics denounced the suits as frivolous political grandstanding. But it is increasingly clear that the plaintiffs have a serious case with a real …

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The LGBT Community Shifts toward the GOP

Hard to believe, but... More self-identified gay voters chose the GOP in the midterm elections than in previously recorded totals, according to a CNN exit poll. Thirty-one percent of self-identified gay voters cast their ballots for Republicans on Tuesday, 4 percentage points more than in 2008, according to a similar CNN exit poll... “The gay …

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The Old British Tactic of Playing Off Minority Races Against Majority Ones

This interesting tidbit, buried in an Asia Times Online piece about why Myanmar (Burma) has been a string of dictatorships and conflicts since independence: During Myanmar's period of colonial rule, from 1886 to 1948, Great Britain preferred hiring ethnic minorities to work in its colonial administration, for fear of putting the majority Burman in positions …

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Getting Past Panic in the Climate Change Debate

Without including engineers, who are charged with coming up with solutions to the problem, things get pretty irrational, as the September-October 2010 edition of Geo-Strata notes: Evolution has been at work on the climate situation recently. Let's overlook the late 1970s forecast of an impending ice age and focus on the early- to mid-2000s 'global …

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NPR News and Fox Not News? You've Got to be Kidding!

But that's still NPR's line re the firing of Juan Williams, as elucidated at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches: When asked about the firing of Juan Williams by NPR for comments he made on Fox News, (NPR Political Editor Ken) Rudin said he regretted the way it happened, but it was almost inevitable. …

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Some Closing Thoughts on Cyril of Jerusalem's Catechetical Lectures

This is the twelfth and last in a sporadic series on the Catechetical Lectures of St. Cyril of Jerusalem.  The previous post was Mystagogy, Sacramental Theology and the Poker Playing Dog. It's time, I suppose, to “put a wrap” on this long series on the Cathechetical Lectures of Cyril of Jerusalem. For me at least, …

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Transportation Lobbyists Better Work With the Winners

That's what they're paid to do: There was a palpable sense of disbelief in the air at Wednesday’s gathering of the Minnesota Transportation Alliance. On Tuesday, the transportation advocates saw some of their biggest boosters, including U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, chair of the House transportation committee, go down to defeat as Republicans took control of …

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