Reno blogger Ryan Jerz continues to face harassment for his outing of complaint-happy, former University of Nevada, Reno soccer coach Terri Patraw.Jerz outed Patraw’s–and/or her supporters’–online behavior, wherein it appeared as if all defenses of Patraw were coming from the same computer. First Patraw threatened to sue Jerz. Most recently, Jerz’s web host is being threatened with [...]
April 12, 2008
I purposefully avoid discussing local matters for two reasons: 1. there’s ample material of which I often know too much, and 2. in light of number one, I try to maintain a decent amount of good juju with my colleagues. I admit I’m not always successful. Thus, this blog’s emphasis has rarely been about matters [...]
March 28, 2008
Michael Shermer likes to tread dangerous waters. His latest dip into challenging the received turbulance of our times is an evolutionary explanation for the state of Modern Capitalism. Politicos, religionists and the lay masses, if they actually take a gander through Shermer’s The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from [...]
March 19, 2008
(Update March 4, 2009: Research results released today from the Water Research Foundation confirm the safety of public water supplies despite negligible amounts of pharmaceuticals. A news release about the research is posted here.) A couple of years ago I received a phone call of a reporter. She wanted to know the effects of [...]
March 13, 2008
Contrast how New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has handled his demise with Geraldine Ferraro, who also recently resigned from working on the Hillary Clinton campaign. Ferraro recently said of Barack Obama: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in [...]
April 28, 2008