Skeptics Score A Win Against Alarmists!
At the Munk Debate in Toronto Tuesday night, the email scandal was barely mentioned and so had little direct impact on the results. Before the debate, the 1,100 people in the audience cast ballots, with 61% supporting the resolution that “climate change is mankind’s defining [...]
At Austin’s suggestion I attended the candidates debate for the 8th Congressional District put on by the Conservative Coalition of Montgomery County. It was, to say the least, an interesting experience. As he mentioned the audience was a modest collection of about fifty people. The [...]
Easily the best holiday ad you won't see on Southeast Texas television (not yet, anyway). We felt compelled to bring this to a wider audience (if you can call the 12 people that read the Bayou an "audience"). It's the good folks over at JJ's Pawn Shop on College, doing' [...]
The cold rain and wind took a break while the community broke ground on the new Boys & Girls Club off of Highway 281 in Edinburg. I had a chance to address the audience to convey the importance of the 32,700-square-foot facility.
President Obama delivered his latest strategy for the war in Afghanistan before an audience of cadets and officers at West Point last night. Secretary of Defense Gates and Secretary of State Clinton were also in attendance. The audience was polite and respectful. Frankly, they looked bored and one cadet was [...]
A Christmas Tale (2008) ***** Late in A Christmas Tale Abel Vuillard (Jean-Paul Roussillon), the mirthful, patient patriarch in Arnaud Desplechin’s noisy, cloying and altogether marvelous film, reads aloud from the opening pages of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. His audience is his oldest child, Élizabeth (Anne Consigny), who [...]
Number of comments: 1 Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors was recently asked to review a book, and because the target audience was people under 30, he asked me if I wanted to take on the project. I agreed, then emailed him and a few other people about how to go about reviewing a book [...]
Number of comments: 12 Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors was recently asked to review a book, and because the target audience was people under 30, he asked me if I wanted to take on the project. I agreed, then emailed him and a few other people about how to go about reviewing a book I [...]