After several failed attempts to sell the Saab car line, General Motors gave up and announced the death of the brand today. The fashionable narrative shall be one of big, stupid, clodhopping GM not understanding what made Saab special, slowly strangling all its uniqueness over two decades of ownership until it finally collapsed. To be … Read more
…and I’m pretty sure it’s anthropogenic. Heh. Since our last action-packed episode—hacked emails and reports detailing doubts, destruction of evidence, conspiracy to sabotage peer reviews, deceitful data omission, good stuff like that on “global warming,” remember?—it seems Phil Jones, head of the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia, has resigned in disgrace. … Read more
I’ve felt less like blogging this weekend than I ever have, I think. Sorry about that. Nothing personal. No obvious reason why. Been a pretty good time off. Gave myself a haircut Friday morning. Lea was a little puny yesterday, though. Church this morning. Got the Christmas stuff down a little while ago, for my … Read more