My stance is that everyone has the agency to make the decision to get vaccinated for themselves. I would personally strongly recommend vaccination as early indications show a higher degree of coincident antibodies in vaccinated individuals than in those with prior COVID infections. However, if it is...

The problem is - those records only measure discrete daily events, correct? It is possible to have 6+ inches of rain within a 24 hour time block, part of which falls on one calendar day and the remainder of which falls on the immediately subsequent calendar day. The charts I provided do quite a bit...

Despite the legalities, legislatively, these Democrats are in stalling legislation, in effect, through a very expensive filibuster. The filibuster is quite an obnoxious tool when it's stalling your preferred agenda and I still have very mixed feelings about its usage/thresholds. I will concede that ...

This may come back to bite me, but I do think that today's rain chances are pretty decent today. The NAM is a bit more aggressive than the HRRR/RAP, but the HRRR/RAP seems to be overestimating the amount of planetary boundary layer (PBL) to free troposphere mixing. You can tell this by looking at mo...

What little I know about public policy tells me that any conflict with Afghanistan is going to end poorly. I still think invading was a political tool not a military imperative. It's definitely going to end poorly there, but that's not because of the decision to invade in the first place, it's due ...

I should also note that's also why we never went to war with Pakistan, even though we did engage in limited covert ops to retrieve Bin Ladin there.

To follow your logic, why aren't we at war with Saudi Arabia? It has been well documented that they protected Bin Laden. Because foreign policy is much more murky and convoluted than even domestic affairs; and while Saudi Arabia acts against out interest on many fronts, but they are also critical a...

A couple of points: I agree that any representative should represent their constituents in an emergency, and Tlaib certainly has done that: https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1411007040609304579 https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1411055631914647556 Minor point, but Tlaib doesn't represent...

The decision to go into Afghanistan was based on sound reasoning: the Taliban openly and willingly gave Al-Qaeda the space to plan and execute 9/11 attacks. They also in the following days aided and abetted Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Ladin, as did Pakistan. That is an act of war and hostility that certa...

Public health policy is a balance between tradeoffs: the economy and public safety. If you swing one direction too strongly for too long, then you are making a conscious choice to impose disproportionate harm on innocent segments of society. We're at a point now that it's a personal responsibility i...

I have to agree with bmw here. This is a disabilities rights', and by extension, a human rights issue at its core. If someone as high profiled as Britney Spears can have all of her rights trampled, it's not hard to imagine how many other people are unjustly barred from managing their own lives. Cons...

No problem -- and that is correct re: the caveats, which is true for how you should look at any statistic.

On the first point, he is simply wrong. Weather records in Detroit only date back to the 1870s, and some areas saw similar rainfall just seven years ago! There is no legitimate research he can cite to support the "500 year" claim. In other words, he is spreading FAKE NEWS. On his second point, he i...

If they keep adding federal holidays without removing some eventually they will have 365 and Government works won't actually work. This is the first federal holiday that's been approved since MLK Day in 1983, nearly 40 years ago. I don't think we're on a slippery slope to never working. :eek Let me...

If the Juneteenth holiday is a response to people who reject the July 4th Independence Day, shouldn't people be forced to choose one of those holidays as a mid-summer holiday? Will the Juneteenth holiday become a platform for marches and speeches related to racial grievances? June used to be a very...