December 2007 Entries

Even top businesses are in on it!

What?  Wait a second?  I thought that global warming was a hoax perpetuated by those dastardly scientists and tree-huggers with all their, you know, trees and science and stuff.   Now even Top Businesses are in on it and they're demanding action, those tricksters.  Good thing we've got Sen. Inhofe to protect us. Seriously, the Forbes article above gives me a glimmer of hope.  We all know the amount of influence large businesses have in our government and the policies it operates under.  Perhaps having them pushing on the sane side of this argument will actually drive some serious discussion about...

RPE Resets

Just finished a two hour run in some really nasty conditions.  It snowed hard here in the Seattle area for most of the day yesterday.  It's amazing how different a little bit of altitude makes.  My house is about 150' above sea level, and I got about 5" near my house.   Overnight the temperatures went up in to the high-30s and it's been raining hard ever since.  I waited until noon hoping that it would melt off, and near my house it looked like it had.  My normal route starts off going up even higher and away from...