Thanks to Denny Wilkins for passing on this little tipsheet from the Society of Environmental Journalists. _______________________________ TIPSHEET SPECIAL EDITION OF 5 JANUARY, 2005 TSUNAMI BACKGROUND INFORMATION TipSheet provides biweekly news tips for journalists on potential environmental stories and sources. TipSheet is produced jointly by the Society of Environmental Journalists and the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation. TipSheet is

For some odd reason folks attempting to post replies to my blog entries have been faced with the challenge of composing those replies in black text on a black background (thanks to fikshun for his incessant bitching on the subject). I have no idea why this was happening – the site isn’t designed that way and it didn’t used to

So last night’s 55-19 thumping of Choklahoma eliminates all doubt, huh? Sez ESPN: “There will be no sharing No. 1 this year. USC made an outright statement in Tuesday night’s BCS title game…” (Story) Ummm, bullshit. What last night’s game proved was that USC is a whole lot better than OU. What it didn’t prove is how they stack up

This site has all kinds of time-wasting crap. Apparently I’m Chandler. You scored as Chandler. You’re Chandler. The sarcastic commitment phobe. Could you BE any funnier. Chandler 60% Rachel 55% Monica 40% Ross 35% Joey 35% Phoebe 30% Which Friend are you?created with QuizFarm.com

Hunh. I’m sure this comes as a big surprise to those who know me. Hell, it comes as a surprise to me… BTW, if this doesn’t make any sense, you need to bone up on your D&D. You scored as Lawful Good. A lawful good person acts as a good person is expected or required to act. They are dedicated

Well, it looks like Congressional Republicans have thought better of their move to insulate Tom DeLay from their ethics rules. Darnit. As I wrote here back in November, that decision was actually very good news for people who hate DeLay (and the GOP in general): This is a sitting politician, and thus the story has what folks in the PR

Kelly Freas, an illustrator who produced sleek, stirring images for science fiction and fantasy books and helped shape the image of Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Newman, died Sunday. He was 82. My first acquaintance with Freas was, oddly enough, the 1977 Queen album News of the World, which featured a modified version of his famous painting, The Gulf Between.

Mike Shanahan was once the best coach in the game. Period. Yeah, with the kind of talent he had during the Super Bowl years even one of my idiot cousins could have been the best coach in the game, I guess, but there have been a lot of guys who had great talent and managed to lose anyway. So let’s

There have been lots of arguments over the declining pace and quality of NBA games in recent years. Scoring is down, the games are impossible to watch (the Pistons’ method of boring the opponent and crowd to death ruled supreme last year – I know I couldn’t watch it, even though I was loving the fact that the Lakers were

I have a new project I’d like some help on. I’m compiling a list of the WWW’s greatest hits. By this I’m referring to the sites, games, and outright stupidity that have periodically overrun everyone with a Net connection. Below are listed ten that come immediately to mind, but I’d like to make sure I’m not forgetting anything. So send

We’ll miss you, Johnny. Obit

After my earlier “Merry Christmas” post the esteemed Dr. Harold Tedford passed along this column by Charley Reese, and I find a lot to agree with here. First: I don’t think nativity scenes belong on courthouse lawns and or other government properties. For one thing, in its usual weaselly way, the Supreme Court said that such scenes must include secular

God Bless America. Jesus is a goldmine. Val MacEwan is raising some hell over profiting off of Jesus. And she’s right, of course. You know, moneychangers, temple, all that….

Ouch.

We’re hearing a lot this year about the secularization of the holiday season. (See, I just did it – I failed to call it “Christmas.”) Battles are being waged in courts over whether Christian groups can stage nativities on public grounds, in the press on whether children should be able to offer explicitly Christian expressions in public schools, and in