t-shirt
'I promise
not to talk politics
during dinner'

Steve's favorite news links

* The Newseum's daily compendium of front pages from around the world

* Alan Keyes for President

* Google News, updated continuously throughout the day.

* Maryland Independent Party



"Contemplating" ...

Your humble host
agrees with the signers of
Declaration of Independence
that all men are created equal,
endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable rights,
including the rights to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness

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November 15, 2009

I send out a variety of topical info-nuggets pretty regularly via Twitter. My main ID there is RockvilleSteve.

April 12, 2008

"Unbelievable" - that's how the lady in spot next to mine in parking lot this evening described the cloud cover here near the Shady Grove station on the Washington, D.C. Metrorail's Red Line. I had come to similar conclusion a few minutes prior, and had snapped these photos.

March 31, 2008

Hello and welcome.

I'm Steve Schulin. Before the web, I ran a dial-in BBS for subscribers to the nuclear power plant radiation protection newsletter I published, called Radiological Inspection Reports. When the internet was opened up for email domains, I was delighted to add that feature to the BBS. My first choice for domain name was rad.com, but that was already taken. So I thought about it for about a week, and decided on nuclear.com, which was available. That was in the early 1990s. Now that every word in the dictionary has reportedly long been registered, I feel very lucky indeed to have been one of the early adopters. I still spend most of my time on things nuclear, but I registered some other domains in 2008, and this site points to them all.

* MarylandIndependentParty.org - The dominant political parties have failed, miserably, in leadership. I wanted to help ensure Alan Keyes was a choice on the ballot in my state, as others were across the nation. I invite all of good will and judgement to consider joining our new party. In Maryland, that new party is the Maryland Independent Party, and I'm happy to be providing the party's initial web presence. We need 10,000 signatures on a petition to get our party recognized by the state. If you're a registered voter in Maryland, please go here, get the petition, complete it (and get others to sign it too), and mail it in to the address on the petition. There are quite few other domain names that resolve to this site, including AIP-MD.org, md2010.net, MarylandCool.org, and even ctv76.com (that last one used to be the domain for Prince George's County public access cable TV station).

* md4steve.org - I started this page when our MD4 district Congressman, Rep. Albert Wynn, decided to move on with his life and resign his seat in the U.S. House. I was a registered write-in candidate in the special election on June 17, 2008 and again registered as a candidate in the November 2008 general election. I've taken Alan Keyes' message to heart: these are extraordinary times, and all of us who want future generations to enjoy the blessings of liberty need to ask ourselves what we can personally do, and then do what we can. I want our new party to identify and help elect a candidate who shares my values. I ask for your help in supporting such a candidate.

* CompleatAdvocate.com - This is a public policy discussion board. The name continues in the tradition of Isaak Walton's book on fishing and the environment, titled "The Compleat Angler". Our debate team at The Catholic University of America became quite active in serving high school debate. One year, we decided to try writing a handbook to introduce students to the coming year's topic. When it came to selecting a title, my suggestion of "The Compleat Medical Advocate" was adopted. The following year, we published "The Compleat Energy Advocate". I could not believe the awful spam that this site attracted, so if you want posting privileges, call or email me directly to get a user ID/password.

* Calamitology.com - I was a debater in high school and college. At that time, the role of particulate air pollution in an impending global cooling was source of much more immediate emphasis than was the role of CO2 in sooner or later warming the climate. I read as much as I could find in the libraries on the subject during those years, and continued to read the occasional climatology articles in Science and such when I was out in the working world. When George W. Bush took office in 2001, two of his cabinet were quite vocal about the threat posed by CO2, and it was this which prompted me to want to better understand the scientific basis for their policy recommendations. I spent thousands of hours over the next several years studying climate science, and I concluded that there's been a lot of exaggerations and other lies being told, some out of ignorance and others apparently quite purposefully. I became one of the "regulars" in the sci.environment usenet group. Calamitology.com is where I plan to highlight some of the memorable discussion, as well as comment on new developments in the literature.

* Schulin.net - if you're a Schulin, you can have a free email forwarding address @schulin.net

* nuclearwaist.com - Nuclear waste is a pretty serious matter, but a nuclear waist, well, that's different.