User:Todd Johnston

Todd Johnston
An idealist mugged by students of liberals mugged by reality

education
Ph.D., geosciences (EDC, 12/2007). Pennsylvania State University B.Sc., meteorology; minor, mathematics. Pennsylvania State University
 * research includes glaciology, global climate change, GPS
 * program advisor: Richard Alley

investigative journalism
The News Gin ePluribus Media
 * founder, 2007 (in development)
 * writer, researcher
 * board of directors, 2005 - 2007
 * charter/founding member, 2005

some quotes
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1789

"Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire." -- Homer Bannon (Melvyn Douglas). Hud. 1963

"People we vote for...they said, 'kick all the illegal aliens out of this country, then build a super-fence so they can't get back in.' And I went, 'Um...who's gonna build it?'" -- Carlos Mencia

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." -- Douglas Adams