…hate the P-word? The double standards never fail to amaze, though we should be long used to it by now.
[Update a few minutes later]
The rise of an epithet.
The Space Tourism Hoax
Over at The Space Review today, Stephen Ashworth responds to the idiotic Space News piece by the ESA guys last week. I generally agree with his critique, though he’s far too fond of airbreathers.
Gee, Just What We’re All Interested In
A terrorist critique of US foreign policy. Holder’s decision is looking more brilliant by the day.
A Living Nightmare
A man was misdiagnosed as being in a coma for twenty-three years while being fully conscious. As Mark Steyn (from whom I got the link) says, it’s amazing that he retained his sanity.
It would behoove neurologists and neuroscientists to be a little more humble about what they think they know about the brain and consciousness.
The Science Is Unsettled
My thoughts on the climate-change fraud, over at PJM.
[Update a few minutes later]
All the news that’s fit to bury. I liked this: “If Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe are done tormenting ACORN maybe they can figure out how to pose as underaged climate researchers…”
[Update about 8:30 PST]
The ugly side of climate science.
[Late morning update]
Lord Monckton speaks: They are criminals.
[Early afternoon update]
Another “blue dress” moment for the media — the BBC has had some of this info for weeks.
[Update mid afternoon]
I like the comment that offered this code snippet over at McIntyre’s place:
void function fubar(void); {
if dataset == hockeystick then plot(dataset); else fudge(dataset);
return; }
I assume that it’s recursive, in that fudge calls fubar…
Disturbing
I think that I’ve found Andrew Sullivan’s favorite web site. It’s likely to get a lot of hittage in the coming months. Many of them from The Atlantic…
Has Obama Become Funny?
Apparently, SNL eviscerated the president in the opener last night, and the attack wasn’t even from the left. So what has changed? All through the campaign, and for months into the election, all of the comedy writers and comedians whose job is to make us laugh told us that there was nothing funny about Barack Obama. Now, I thought at the time that if they couldn’t find much to mock from this arrogant pomposity, they should find a new line of work. But I’m glad that they finally found something. I suspect that now that his polls are down, they’ll start finding a lot more.
Breitbart Responds
And now to address the fever-swamp’s notion that what I said on “Hannity” last night was “blackmail.” Blackmail occurs when one party threatens to reveal an unsavory piece of information about another party, and demands money in exchange for silence. For obvious reasons, it is most often conducted in private. I, on the other hand, went on national television with a challenge to the Attorney General to do his job; unlike this administration and its justice department, what I did was fully open and transparent.
There will be consequences if there isn’t an investigation into ACORN. The videos will be shown and at a particular moment. There is nothing illegal about my proposed response to the continued inaction from this justice department, and there’s nothing I’d like more than to have my day in court and let a jury hear why I have gone to such extraordinary measures to tell a major story that the dying, partisan, leftist media has worked so hard to suppress.
The days of the Democrat-Media Complex controlling the narrative are in their end times. And if the AG wants to turn his focus on me instead of ACORN, then that day will be closer than many of them think.
I suspect that he has a lot of ammunition if the industrial government/media complex wants to escalate its war.
[Evening update]
Fox asked to inspect hen house in Ohio:
According to a report from Ohio today, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has asked the ACORN-tainted Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, to investigation ACORN’s voter registration work in the state.
I’m sure everything will be found to be on the up and up.
Irony
Well, one of the worst defenses in the country stepped up today. Ohio State only scored two touchdowns against it.
Unfortunately, Michigan’s offense lost the game for them instead, with multiple turnovers, and three interceptions in the fourth quarter when they still had a chance to pull it out. No bowls, and an unprecedented sixth straight loss to the Buckeyes. The question is, will Rodriguez keep his job after two straight losing seasons?
Betraying Science
Here’s a nice summary of the significant contents of the email dump. Regardless of the validity of the science, these people have thoroughly discredited themselves, and given AGW skeptics a vast arsenal. Thankfully, this is going to make it much more difficult for the warm-mongers to implement their anti-free-market agenda. I suspect that if cap’n’tax wasn’t already dead in the Senate, it will be now.
[Update mid afternoon]
Powerline has been going through the emails. The picture that emerges is not that of scientists seeking truth, but of partisans, protecting (at the least) their own pet theory, and possibly a broader agenda as well, at the expense of truth and the reputations of anyone who dares to question them..
[Sunday morning update]
When in doubt, delete:
These emails appear to show that, when faced with a legitimate request under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act, these global warming alarmists preferred to delete their emails with one another about the crucially important IPCC report–the main basis for the purported “consensus” in favor of anthropogenic global warming–rather than allow them to come to light. This is one of many instances in the East Anglia documents where the global warming alarmists act like a gang of co-conspirators rather than respectable scientists.
I don’t think it’s an act.