That’s us with Brian O’Laughlin, he on the left. Funny, musical, soft spoken, gentle, sharp, stoned, and a little lost, he’s long gone now but still much loved, still remembered. Yet this seems to be the only picture of him we have. It was 1985 or so in a motel room in San Francisco between […]
OK, the washer died. Well, it disintegrated. The dryer died a couple months ago when finally I could not fix it. They were nearly thirty years old and for a full three quarters of our marriage they were in the laundry room whirring and spinning and sloshing and sometimes clumping like a Maureen Tucker drum […]
Respect for the scientific method is little to be found anywhere in the popular culture, with the possible exception of what is simple and dramatic — dinosaurs! Witness the anti-vaccination movement as a particularly depressing example. It doesn’t help that modern physics has produced “theories” which belie the term by being merely elegant mathematical games, which are not testable against reality. Then there’s the fact that we have to have “equal time” for “both sides” (as if every question of fact was divisible into 50% yes and 50% no, instead of one side having overwhelming evidence.)
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