Howard Weaver

These thoughts were passed along to me from a friend's spouse. If he posts them himself I'll link. Till then, I thought it important to share this insight now, early in the debate:"The NRA is not stupid. They are trying to re-frame the gun debate and t...

I took mild issue with Nate Silver on Twitter yesterday about his article "Alaska: Future Swing State?" I said it was "proof that Silver is better with numbers than analysis."   Ted Cuzillo (@datadoodle) asked what I’d have said if I was...

With all the Nate Silver inspired debates about analytical journalism going on, I can't resist referring to the work Richard Mauer, Larry Makinson and others did at the Anchorage Daily News in the 1980s-1990s. Using a Macintosh 512 and Fourth Dimensio...

A veteran political observer I know is fond of quoting the aphorism, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” It means, among other things, that sometimes only crisis can break through governing gridlock and make things happen. In today&rsqu...

For several years now I've been giving a talk at journalism conferences and classrooms I called "Whatever happened to facts?" I took as my starting point a brilliant headline from The Onion, which said, "One in five Americans now believes Obama is a ca...

See the full gallery on Posterous Since we had Alaskans on hand willing to work, we harvested olives and a couple of combs of honey today. Our olive harvesting meager, owing to recovery from last year's olive knot, but the trees look much bette...

Barb bought a selection of heritage chili pepper seeds from the University of New Mexico last year and they've produced abundantly in this second season.I don't recall all the varieties at the moment and we've yet to taste any (that will ch...

Since the birds have already harvested our cherries, these fat plums are the first real harvest of the year from Redwing orchard. The big juicy looking specimens are Santa Rosas, of which there were disappointingly few. They're gorgeous, though. More ...

This is taken from a blog post I did in July 2008 at Etaoin Shrdlu:   Utopian or distopian? At the moment, things feel precisely like the condition social theorist Fredric Jameson described as “the postmodern sublime” &ndas...

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