Category Archives: Media Criticism

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary

The 5000 Climaquiddick Emails

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Reading all of them:

So far, it’s been fascinating to get a look at the climate hoax from the inside. The data fudging, the demonization of doubters, the knee-jerk rejection of alternate hypotheses, the quest for funding, the travel to exotic locations, the pal review, the left-wing politics, the fear of debate, the swagger in the early days, then the panic as the skeptics closed in–it’s all there.

It’s a dirty job, but somebody’s got to do it.

Culinary, Media Criticism, Science And Society

Paula Deen

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You’ll be as shocked as I was to learn that she has Type 2 diabetes:

There’s no doubt that fans would be upset to learn that Deen had been keeping such a major disease, and a major consequence of heavy eating, from their knowledge. It would certainly cast an alarming pall over the reckless abandon with which she endorses delicacies like turducken. And it would lend support to rival Anthony Bourdain’s much-ballyhooed critique of Deen’s culinary style.

It’s worth noting, though, that in the past nine months, Deen has diversified her activities away from her old monomaniacal focus on fatty foods.

Nutritional ignorance. You don’t get diabetes from fatty foods, or the Inuit, who traditionally lived on whale blubber and seal fat, would all be diabetic. Well, actually they are now, but they never were until they started eating flour and sugar, which is the problem with Paula Deen’s cooking as well.

Media Criticism, Political Commentary, War Commentary

Correcting The Progressive Spin

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…”on my defense of the Marines.”

They’re not anti-war, they just hate our military.

Oh, and if anyone is curious as to what I think, I think that it was almost criminally stupid (the same thing I thought about the morons at Abu Ghraib), but I didn’t think that George Bush was responsible for that, and I don’t think that Barack Obama is responsible for this. Sometimes, in war time, (and in peace time) people do stupid things. And like Dana, I’ll take the leftists’ outrage seriously when they show some concern about the real atrocities that the enemy (with whom we’re negotiating to surrender to) commits.

[Update a few minutes later]

An open letter to the armed forces, from Andrea Harris.

[Late morning update]

Allan West: “Shut your mouth. War is hell.”