Megan McArdle explains.
No Woodstock For Him
Did Mitt Romney miss out on the sixties?
Black And Blue
The blue model batters black America. Black unemployment is now above 15%. So that’s what the change has been for Eric Holder’s people.
After Atlas Shrugs
…comes the ice. Thoughts on a new book by Jerry Pournelle.
Newt’s Not-So-Greatest Hits
Jim Geraghty’s been mining the archives. I think that if you look up the word “mercurial,” you’ll find his picture there.
Did The Fed Just Save The Eurozone?
Maybe, but it’s just buying time.
Climate, Or Weather?
It depends on whether or not it serves “the cause” (to use Phil Jones’ words):
For those of you who are confused, let me remind you: the only meteorological phenomena that count are the ones that confirm the climate alarmist case. It doesn’t matter what it is — drought, flood, blizzard, heat wave — if it can be made to support fear about the climate, it matters and it needs to be thoroughly analyzed and widely publicized.
Meteorological phenomena that, to the unsophisticated, might appear to undermine the case that WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE if we don’t immediately pass a stringent carbon treaty, are meaningless and should be ignored.
A spate of hurricanes is climate; an absence of big storms is weather. The absence of any major hurricanes for six years is a meaningless phenomenon; should a couple of big ones hit in any given year, then every editorial page in the country will fill with hand wringing, dire warning and I told you so.
Bet on it.
China Lowers Bank Reserve Ratios
…to spur more loans. What could possibly go wrong?
The “Occupy” Movement
…and its simultaneous enthusiasm and contempt for democracy.
[Update a few minutes later]
When is it all right to emulate Guy Fawkes? Hint: don’t try it while Republican.
[Update a while later]
Whatever happened to Occupy [Insert Your City Here]?
I’m guessing that the expression of the protesters — in form and substance — wasn’t serving the interests journalists favor. Excessively left-wing speech coming out of an angry/confused/unclean face… it’s not helping the mainstream Democrats.
You don’t say.
Climaquiddick 2.0
In context. From comments:
I love all these claims of “out of context”. Maybe Jones et al can explain to us the correct context in which it is acceptable to:
Request a colleague to delete E-Mails material to an FOIA (a potentially criminal act)
Collude to block the work of professional scientists from publication
Attempt to have an editor of a scientific journal fired from their job
Cheer when a non AGW believing scientist dies
and so on and so on.
Strangely – ha ha – we never hear what this correct context is.
No, we don’t.