October 2025 archive

State of Terror – Louise Penny and Hilary Rodham Clinton

Having read this book, I’m left with two insights: One, I don’t know enough, and never will, to form any valid opinions about anything political.  It’s beyond complicated.  Whatever ‘it’ is. Two, what the fuck.  I mean, if an insider such as Clinton, who DOES know enough to form valid opinions, thinks this could happen …

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Exposing the IPCC

Just finished reading Donna Laframboise’s expose of the IPCC, The Delinquent Teenager who was mistaken for the world’s top climate expert.   Laframboise is a Canadian journalist, not an American climate denier, and yes, the book did lower my esteem for the IPCC. But that doesn’t mean that its conclusions (such as CO2 warms the atmosphere, …

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The Cockroach – Ian McEwan

Wickedly funny.  British, but frighteningly international and, of course, the President of the U.S. had to be included …

Climate Scientists Reacats to Trump’s UN Speech