JOHN TIERNEY HAS THOUGHTS on Richard Branson’s climate prize. And in a discussion of what global warming theorists really say, he talks about the gulf stream.
Archive for 2007
February 13, 2007
February 12, 2007
A “GLOBAL COLDENING” prediction.
I’M VOTING FOR HOWARD:
Okay, not really. But . . . .
A DEAL WITH NORTH KOREA? But will they keep their word?
HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN: No, really.
VACLAV KLAUS ON GLOBAL WARMING.
(Had my Vaclavs mixed up earlier. Fixed now.)
WELCOME TO THE SAUSAGE FACTORY: A look inside the Washington Post’s Feith blunder.
UPDATE: More here.
SHE WILL BE MISSED: Amanda Marcotte has resigned from the Edwards campaign.
UPDATE: Thoughts from Professor Bainbridge.
ANOTHER UPDATE: More thoughts, and a roundup, here.
MORE: Further thoughts here and here.
Don Surber: You are what you blog.
WHAT OBAMA SAYS ABOUT THE WAR:
What the troops say about the war:
A useful comparison.
WHAT OBAMA SAYS ABOUT THE WAR:
What the troops say about the war:
A useful comparison.
UPDATE: What John Howard says about Obama:
There’s a case to be made for another public law school in Southern California, but why one focused on “public interest” law? After all, UCLA already has a widely respected public interest law program. A cynic might think it has something to do with Prop 209, especially if the new school combines its mission statement with some form of “holistic” admissions. . . . Anyway, as far as ideology goes, there’s no question but that public interest law programs skew left. As far as I’m aware, no UCLA PILP graduate works for the Pacific Legal Foundation or any other conservative or libertarian-leaning public interest law outfit.
Perhaps they’ll have a “diversity” program to address that.
Windows Vista includes an array of “features” that you don’t want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They’ll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features won’t do anything useful. In fact, they’re working against you. They’re digital rights management (DRM) features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment industry.
And you don’t get to refuse them.
My new laptop is an XP machine. I could have gotten it with Vista, but that seemed less of an advantage than a drawback.
PEOPLE IN GERMANY MUST NOT LIVE VERY LONG: Five life sentences yield 24 years in prison.
HEY, WAIT: “Federal surplus widens to $38.2 billion in Jan.” Surplus?
(Via Don Surber, who’s confused, too.)
THREE MEN, SOME FROZEN SPERM, AND A BABY: Cathy Seipp on Anna Nicole Smith.
HEH. INDEED: ” If You’re For The War And You’re Not In The Military, You’re A Chickenhawk. If You’re For The War And You Are In The Military, Shut Up.” How conveeeenient.
THOUGHTS ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND communications. Don’t forget the cheap CB radio, either.
JOHN HAWKINS interviews the Insta-Wife.
MICHAEL YON WANTS YOUR HELP:
During an Iraqi Security Forces raid in Mosul, I was there when our own forces (1-24th Infantry Regiment) captured tons of enemy weapons and explosives. Among the tons of munitions, I photographed 27 SA-7 Surface to Air Missiles that night. There were also a few strange weapons. None of the many military people I have showed this photo could identify this weapon or where it might have come from. It looks homemade. Can you ask your readers to try to identify it? (Who knows? Maybe these are made in a local machine shop in Alabama.)
Visit his site and see if you can help.
“CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME:” The Economist looks at Joe Kennedy and Hugo Chavez.
CLAUDIA ROSETT: “While U.S. chief negotiator Christopher Hill has been struggling in Beijing to cut a diplomatic de-nuclearization deal with the regime of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, some of us here in the United States have been struggling to figure out just how much Kim’s promises are worth. As ever, it’s illuminating to follow the money.” And she has.
DANNY GLOVER looks at those boring campaign blogs.
I understand why this is a politically tough issue: There’s no political upside to helping criminals, and the prison guard’s unions are terrifically powerful on the state level. But politically tough as it may be to address, it’s morally abhorrent to ignore. And we have to remember: Every single time we sentence a suspect to jail time, we are tacitly consenting not merely to his imprisonment, but to his savage sexual assault, with all the physical and psychological damage it will bring.
And read this earlier post of his, too:
We’ve decided to tacitly accept rape in our prisons because we believe deeply and firmly in the guilt of all who enter — this is just further punishment. Better yet, we’re not the executors — that such barbarism occurs behind bars is further confirmation that those we incarcerate are monsters. The assaults make us feel better, they vindicate our sentencing. And we can countenance them because we never face their horrors.
I’ve written about this topic in the past, and I’m glad it’s getting more attention. And I highly recommend this post on “the rape penalty” by Glen Whitman, who asks: “If the death penalty is a problem, then isn’t prison rape an even bigger problem?”
THE LATEST PAJAMAS MEDIA STRAW POLL RESULTS are out, plus a report on cheating attempts.
CRACKS IN THE OPPOSITION TO NUCLEAR POWER: I like the remark in the comments about heavy French reliance on nukes. Maybe Bush can sell this as an effort to have a “more European” energy policy. Will that get Democratic buy-in?