It already seems like months since I was down in Argentina. But here’s a little composite of some video I shot during a hike up the “Ventana” with two colleagues on our day off. The Sierra de la Ventana is about 500 kilometers south of Buenos Aires, and at the time we were there (mid… Continue reading
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
Apropos the news about Ardipithecus, you just knew some moronic statements were going to issue from the PR maw of the Discovery Institute. Predictably, they do not disappoint….
Looks like Jay Fitzgerald and I both finished Sam Tanenhaus’s book at the same time. He also beat me to a review…which I pretty much agree with.
Elmore Leonard wins the PEN USA award for lifetime achievement.
Larry Moran, worth quoting in full: Sometime tomorrow Richard Dawkins will be presenting the Richard Dawkins Award to Bill Maher at the Atheist Alliance International convention in Los Angeles. Why is this a problem? It’s a problem because Bill Maher is a kook. He believes in all kinds of strange things about alternative medicine, cancer,… Continue reading