Because We Love Our Servitude
May 6, 2017 by 3 Comments
A Most Excellent Quote of How Statistics Prove Statistics Can Prove Anything
February 13, 2017 by 1 Comment
In a rapidly growing email exchange about effects of ungulates, particularly deer, on forests, I read the following most excellent statement contained within a larger E-mail response:
“…if folks want to play with words or numbers, as I’ve often seen done in the name of “science”, one could produce almost any number desired. For example, why stop at a group of deer in a deer yard? How about a doe and fawn standing on 10 sq. ft. of ground? That compounds out to 5,575,680 deer per sq. mile.”
“…A Depraved Electorate” Willing to Elect Barack Obama
January 19, 2015 by Leave a Comment
An unsubstantiated quote from Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus:
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”
Post-Normal Science Has Leaky Pipes
January 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
James Lovelock: Gaia Guru Quote
August 28, 2014 by 1 Comment
Dr James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS (born July 26, 1919) is a British independent scientist, author, researcher, environmentalist and futurologist. He is most famous for proposing and popularizing the Gaia hypothesis, in which he postulates that the Earth functions as a kind of superorganism (a term coined by w:Lynn Margulis).
A Lovelock quote:
“Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.”
Livy, sharing thoughts and opinion from a bunkhouse on the southern high plains of Texas.
