Finding truth

I'm going to have to tell some of my friends on Facebook to step away from the FOX News. It's making you sound crazy like Todd Akin.
It's science, people.
I found it interesting that many of the early comments last week on an blog post about Hurricane Sandy on Accuweather were harumpphing about storms being connected to climate change. "Really? There's no way any one storm is a product of climate change. It's not even hot out."
She's dropping tons of water on the east coast right now. And here's the thing - while we can't pin down causation of any given storm to climate change, you can say generally that climate change is impacting the number and size of storms we're seeing. This one is at the end of the supposed hurricane season. They're all connected to climate change now.
Here's a great blog post from Bob Priddy on the Missourinet about Carnegie, and his views on wealth. Some might consider him "old school." He thought men should give their wealth away while they lived, so they could direct the good causes it benefitted. You know, mankind.
Not today's leaders, who think we should eliminate the estate tax, let men keep more of their own money, and starve government of any purpose at all. Except government does a lot of things that we all need and want.
It seems our nation is sleepwalking into the abyss, only because we don't want to wake up. It's much easier to listen those who promise a return to greatness and plug away, hoping that the twinge of commonsense we feel in our brain will go away. Yet, you don't have to scratch far to see it for what it is.