…that almost everyone should be able to agree on. I think that the degree to which whole grains are better than refined is marginal. It’s definitely bad versus worse, not good versus bad.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Global Warming Hysteria
1. Global warming has gone AWOL over last 10 years, per the satellite record
2. Cumulating [sic] CO2 emissions in the atmosphere have had a minor impact on global temperatures over the last 20 years
3. The mainstream press, as represented by The Economist, and other proponents of convential [sic] climate orthodoxy are moving closer to the AGW skeptics’ (lukewarmers’) position
4. The publics [sic] (per Pew) belief in catastrophic AGW predictions is plummeting
As it should. As Robert Tracinski says:
So here’s the state of play of climate science a third of a century into the global warming hysteria. They don’t have a reliable baseline of global temperature measurements that would allow them to say what is normal and natural and what isn’t. Their projections about future warming are demonstrably failing to predict the actual data. And now they have been caught, yet again, fudging the numbers and manipulating the graphs to show a rapid 20th-century warming that they want to be true but which they can’t back up with actual evidence.
A theory with this many holes in it would be have been thrown out long ago, if not for the fact that it conveniently serves the political function of indicting fossil fuels as a planet-destroying evil and allowing radical environmentalists to put a modern, scientific face on their primitivist crusade to shut down industrial civilization.
I think that history will record that 2009 was the height of the hysteria, just before the release of the CRU data and emails, which broke the fever, and was a partial cause of the Copenhagen fiasco. And “FOIA,” whoever he or she is, will be viewed as a hero of humanity.
[Mid-morning update]
The new climate deniers.
[Later-morning update]
Why Freeman Dyson is a skeptic about climate “science”: “I believe any good scientist ought to be a skeptic.”
Amen.
Here‘s the full story.
More Gun Ignorance
Apparently the president is just as clueless as Rep. DeGette.
Bachelor Of Arts Degree
Obviously, if Beaudry et al right, this is ferociously depressing news. It suggests that we’re pushing more and more people into (more and more expensive) college programs, even as the number of jobs in which they can use those skills has declined. A growing number of students may be in a credentialling arms race to gain access to routine service jobs. Or maybe the productivity of our nation’s wait staff is spiking as more skilled workers flood into these jobs.
And as evidence, McDonald’s is now requiring a college degree to be a cashier. And it’s positively destroying the low-skilled workers. This isn’t going to end well.
[Update on Friday]
OK, so it turns out that the McDonald’s help-wanted ad was erroneous. But the fact that it was believable should concern, and it may in fact be a sign of things to come.
The Constitutional Law Professor
Who longs to be a dictator. Anyway, he’s made clear on many occasions that he doesn’t feel constrained by that awful document. People like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi were exactly the power mongers the Founders had in mind when they came up with it.
Obama’s Competency Deficit
Some thoughts:
This administration has grand ambitions to grow government but little interest in running it. The result, according to polling, is the highest mistrust in government in years. And rightfully so. We’ve willy-nilly added bureaucracy, deepened the debt, perpetuated cronyism, slowed economic entrepreneurialism and gotten few, if any, of the promised benefits.
It’s not exactly a new problem, but more people are starting to notice it. Too bad they didn’t do so a year ago.
The Jew In The Box
Thoughts on the Jewish experience in contemporary Germany.
Losing The Gun Debate
It’s pretty simple really. One side actually wants to make schools safer, and the other side wants to take away our guns, despite all their lies about their intentions, and push measures that by their own admission wouldn’t have prevented the event that precipitated the push for the legislation. So it’s pretty hilarious when they deliberately mischaracterize their position as “reasonable,” and “common sense,” particularly when they don’t even understand how guns work.
A Sense Of Irony
The British foreign service used to say about many of the countries with which they had to deal was that their primary problem was the lack of a sense of irony. Apparently, it’s a deficiency shared by the president.
A Curriculum Of Propaganda
The entire educational establishment, from kindergarten through academia, needs to be dismantled.