Author: Knoxville Progressive

A World of Jazz Arthur Gilroy made a point in one of his recent diaries that I’d like to riff off of tonight: Only 100 years after Louis Armstrong played his first notes into a recording system, “jazz” (I...

Interested in stretching your brain this afternoon?  Try to wrap your brain around this – Computer modeling (at least in this study) indicates that totalitarian states like the USSR, China, and increasingly W’s...

Some Community Service Announcements First off, thanks to Arthur Gilroy and James Benjamin for their recent diaries expanding the discussion here, and raising some points I’ll try and keep in mind.  In particular,...

Lest I be accused of being the Environmental Eeyore of BMT, here are some items of good environmental news for a change.   And the first bit comes, surprisingly, from the US House of Representatives via the NY Times and...

Let’s see – the regime that has given us or promoted the following scientific advances: Intelligent Design (biology) Video Diagnosis (Frist procedure to test for brain activity) “Global Warming is a myth”...