Les Enfants Terrible

• At Last: Unity

  Monbiot, as disgusted was ever with the oil companies coordinated attack on climate science, nevertheless notes an irony emerging among the warm mongers:
  
  Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial.
  
  We're all denialists now!' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:28pm EST
  

• Hiding the Decline of Global Warming Science

  And thus, the NYT proclaims Climategate a mere speed bump:
  
  The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument.
  
  Of course, the evidence comes from the very same models that [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:23pm EST
  

• Vindication is Sweet

  Mark Steyn has quotes from two leading warming-mongers today. Here's one from Aussie Tim Flannery:
  
  We’re dealing with an incomplete understanding of the way the earth system works… When we come to the last few years when we haven’t seen a continuation of that (warming) trend we don’t [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:28pm EST
  

• Beer Fridges Create Hookers

  Never let it be said that people lack imagination when it comes to finding things to lay at global warming's door:
  
  Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:09pm EST
  

• What the Hell, its Only Other People's Money

  A $100 million here, a $100 million there, and sooner or later it starts adding up to real money.
  
  If I was one of the senators not getting a $100 million payoff for my vote, I think I'd hold out.' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:36pm EST
  

• Eating Crow on Favre

  Eight games into the 2009 football season, let's revisit my reaction to the signing of Brett Favre back in August:
  
  I think it's a bad deal.
  
  An excellent illustration why my professional football coaching career never really got off the ground.
  
  Contrary to my stellar instincts, [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:10pm EST
  

• Doing My Part

  Don Surber argues that beautiful women are to be found on the cutting edge of social change.
  
  WILLisms adds: "Look for the babes, and that's where the social action is, that's where the success will be."
  
  I offer Scroo-Loo to further [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:57pm EST
  

• It's Like a Tumor

  Editor's note: GD4 (demonstrating how deeply ingrained technology is in the next generation) suggested I Google the topic of this post, and sure enough I am not the first person to notice.
  
  I just wanted to point out that Jon Gruden, who is terrific [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:41pm EST
  

• Enemy in the sky

  Hugo Chavez has had enough of bad weather and wants to go to war:
  
  "I'm going in a plane; any cloud that crosses me, I'll zap it so that it rains," Chavez said at a ceremony late on Saturday with family members of five Cubans convicted of spying [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:46am EST
  

• Sweet as Honey

  This song makes me miss making music. Nickel Creek is a three piece featuring guitar, mandolin, and fiddle, with vocals to die for. The song linked above, "Reasons Why" is sung by Sara Watkins, while this one, "When in Rome" is sung by Chris Thile:
  
  
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:58pm EST
  

• Getting on with life

  With a rather time-consuming and, at times, traumatic experience behind me professionally, life returned very much to normal today. Hopefully that will lend itself to more attention to this site in the near future.
  
  Sorry about the drop in activity. But at least I can say I wasn't even' [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:54pm EST