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Got to watch the 2004 movie "The Day after Tomorrow" over the weekend.观看了2004年的电影“后天”的周末。 It’sa good movie, even  though basic science gets grossly abused in the process of creating the required gripping story line.这是部好电影，即使基础科学得到粗暴虐待的过程中，创造必要的引人入胜的故事线。 Nonetheless, it’s interesting to look at how far we’ve come in our appreciation of climate change since 2004:然而，有趣的看多远我们走过的，我们赞赏气候变化自2004年以来：

• The polar ice caps are melting away ... Continue Reading »在极地冰盖融化了 ...继续阅读»

The date was Wednesday, 17 October 2007, around 5:00pm.日期是10月17日星期三2007年，大约下午5:00 。 I was sitting at a terminal gate at DFW, waiting to board my flight back to New York.我坐在一个终端DFW大门，等待乘坐航班，我回到纽约。 As usual, it’s hard to escape the noise of the TV broadcasting CNN’s latest news.像往常一样，很难逃脱噪音的广播电视CNN的最新消息。 Suddenly I hear this: "It seems to me that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III . . . you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."突然，我听到这个： “在我看来，如果您有兴趣，避免第三次世界大战。 。 。你应该有兴趣防止[伊朗]拥有必要的知识，使核武器。 ” I know there is only one nutcase crazy enough to utter such nonsense.我知道只有一个nutcase疯狂足以完全胡说。 Our current President.我们的现任总统。 Sure enough, looking up at the TV monitor, I see ... Continue Reading »果然，抬头看到电视监控，我看到...继续阅读»

Whenever I hear the nonsense about ‘manned space flight’ I have to cringe.每当我听到有关胡说八道'载人航天'我不得不低三下四。 Here’s why这也是为什么

• The budget for space exploration is finite.预算的太空探索是有限的。
• Any money spend on manned missions can not be spend on real space science.任何金钱花费在载人飞行任务不能花在真正的空间科学。
• No science has come from any manned missions (except for studies of human space physiology).没有科学的来自任何载人飞行任务（除研究报告人类太空生理） 。
• Manned missions cost orders or magnitude more that robotic missions but yield no scientific results.载人飞行成本的命令或规模以上的机器人任务，但收益率没有科学的结果。
• Manned missions have and will cost human lives.载人飞行任务的成本和将人的生命。
• All hard scientific results so far have been obtained by inexpensive (compared ... Continue Reading »所有硬科学成果迄今已获得了廉价的（相比...继续阅读»

Yesterday’s Washington Post ran this courageous op-ed piece about our current Iraq quagmire, written by 12 former Army captains.昨天的华盛顿邮报了这一勇敢的论坛版片对我们目前的伊拉克泥潭之际，写了12前陆军上尉。 "America, it has been five years. It’s time to make a choice." “美国，已经五年。现在是时候做出选择。 ”

Irony and humor are great rhetorical weapons, exposing extreme points of view without obviously insulting the person that holds them.反讽和幽默都是伟大的口头武器，揭露极端观点显然没有侮辱人，拥有它们。 In today’s Salon.com column, Glenn Greenwald uses irony and humor in discussing current right-wing views,  starting with a comment made by a notorious right-wing talking head.在今天的Salon.com栏，格伦格林沃尔德使用讽刺和幽默在讨论当前的右翼观点，一开始用所提出的意见臭名昭著的右翼谈头。 Makes for great reading!使大读！

Our country’s leftist radicals would provide habeas corpus, obtain warrants before eavesdropping and ban torture.我们国家的左派激进分子将提供人身保护令，令之前取得窃听和禁止酷刑。

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When Secretary of State, Condi Rice, traveled to the Middle-East in September, little was expected of her and she delivered accordingly.当国务卿，赖斯，前往中东地区在9月份，几乎是她和她交付相应。 What she did ‘accomplish’ was the announcement of a new peace initiative in the guise of a formal peace summit to be held in the US city of Annapolis, Maryland.她没有什么'完成'是宣布了一项新的和平倡议中的幌子正式的和平首脑会议在美国城市马里兰州安纳波利斯。 Even if the Bush administration had everything going for it, it is a lame duck and as such can accomplish only very little.即使布什政府说无所不有，这是一个跛脚鸭，因此，可以完成只有很少。 Everybody realizes this thus begging the question: What good can ... Continue Reading »每个人都意识到这一从而乞讨的问题：什么好可以 ... 继续阅读»

Eugene Debs was an American political leader and social activist who ran for President of the United States while being in prison in 1920 and received almost 1 million votes.尤金德布斯是美国政治领袖和社会活动家谁竞选美国总统的同时，在监狱中，并在1920年收到的近100万票。 Today he is mostly forgotten.今天，他主要是被遗忘。 He is mentioned with admiration in the writings of Kurt Vonnegut, eg , here .提到他是钦佩的著作库尔特冯内古特，例如这里。

What we are taught as being objective historical facts is really a narrative told from the point of view of the powerful and ruling elements of society.我们所教的是客观历史事实确实是一个叙事说的观点的强大和执政的社会因素。 For an alternative view of history in which Eugene Debs plays a greater ... Continue Reading »对于另一种历史观在尤金德布斯发挥了更大的...继续阅读»

Our government launched a national add camping advocating sexual abstinence as a way to promote teenager health.我国政府发起了一项全国新增露营提倡禁欲，以此来促进青少年的健康。 It can be viewed here:它可以被看作浏览：

It is surreal to see a US President who just spend $500 billion on an illegitimate war (and is currently requesting an additional $180 billion in supplemental funding for said war) veto a bill that would cost an additional $35 billion spread over 5 years to expand health insurance coverage for American’s neediest children.这是超现实地看到，美国总统谁刚刚花5000亿美元的非法战争（目前正在请求增拨1800亿美元的补充资金说，战争）否决了一项法案，将增加成本350亿美元分散在5年内扩大健康保险美国的贫困儿童。 What is going on in this man’s head?这是怎么在这名男子的头？ Frankly I am worried.坦白说，我很担心。 The way things look for the Republican party at this point, they will drop off a cliff when the next election comes around.事情的方式寻找共和党在这一点上，他们将落悬崖时，下次大选来了。 Even a man as manifestly detached from reality as Mr. Bush sooner or later will ... Continue Reading »即使是男子显然脱离现实，布什先生迟早会...继续阅读»

Our current occupant will be in office for another 15 months, or so, and I truly hope that no further opportunity presents itself for him to screw up.我们目前的乘员将在办事处的另外15个月，或做，我真诚希望，没有进一步的机会，他搞砸了。 Everybody (yes, everybody, in the long run) will be better off if the man goes back to clearing shrubs on his ranch or does some other useful and harmless work, like giving motivational speeches to executives.每个人都（是的，每个人，从长远来看）会更好，如果该名男子追溯到清除灌木他的牧场上，还是其他一些有益的和无害的工作一样，给予激励演讲，管理人员。 Ours is a great nation not because of our leaders, but in spite of them, that much is certain.我国是一个伟大的国家，不是因为我们的领导人，但尽管它们，这是肯定的。

Of the current crop of political candidates two stand out, in my humble opinion.目前作物的两个政党候选人脱颖而出，在愚见。 There is Ron Paul on the Republican side and Barrack Obama ... Continue Reading »有保罗在共和党方面和巴拉克奥巴马...继续阅读»