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Archive for 2009
November 23, 2009
RON BAILEY eschews the term “Climategate,” but says: “Hmmm. Data not agreeing with model predictions. Very interesting. And of course, Flannery is right, science does work through ‘a robust interchange and testing of ideas.’ But interchanging ideas about how to hijack some aspects of peer review and by trying to suppress the work of researchers with whom one disagrees? Messy indeed.”
UPDATE: Reader Kenneth Hitchens writes: “Indeed, it’s Climaquiddick. Or is it too early for that?” Well, the press is playing along, which makes it more a -quiddick than a -gate so far . . . .
HELLO, BRAINPAL: Intel wants brain implants by 2020. They’ll need better antivirus protection. . . .
ACORN SCANDAL PART TWO: The Evidentiary Phase.
Plus, California ACORN Responds to Revelation of Massive Doc Dump, Data Breach at Its San Diego Office.
A BUNCH OF new releases on Blu-Ray and DVD.
[Sorry, link was bad before. Fixed now.]
DER SPIEGEL: Obama’s Nice-Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere. If only he were as tough on America’s enemies as he is on Fox News.
John Hinderaker comments: “President Obama took office wanting to distinguish himself from President Bush. . . . Now, as Der Spiegel concludes, he is trying desperately to distinguish himself from Jimmy Carter.” I don’t think he’s trying all that hard . . . .
Plus, Mark Steyn: More mush from the wimp. Sorry, but a Carter-era rerun is the best-case scenario.
NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Practical Nanotube Electronics.
A READER EMAILS: “This morning 6 term Congressman Dennis Moore, (D), Kansas 3rd District, announced that he will not seek reelection. A member of the Blue Dog Coalition, Moore was one of the first targets of the Tea Party movement when hundreds demonstrated at his Overland Park, Kansas office in mid-February, 2009.” More on that here.
And here’s a flashback. And here’s another.
LASER SURGERY to correct presbyopia. I don’t need bifocals yet, but, well, faster please!
COOL PICTURES in the WSJ Photo Journal blog.
MORE BREAKING NEWS: ACORN Document Dump Scandal. “Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General’s visit.” But the documents were retrieved from the dumpster.
Breaking news that most news media don’t want to break, that is . . ..
ESPN COLUMNIST SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER.
SOLAR CELLS AT a dollar per watt?
CLIMATEGATE: Brian Wang comments: “The over reaching on the science and over aggressive tactics are now blowing up in face of the pro-global warming side.”
But he also comments that there’s “no need to exaggerate the deadliness of coal.” That’s right. As I’ve noted before, the shrillness of the global-warming alarmists obscures the fact that we should be doing most of the same things regardless — switching to clean nuclear power, boosting research into efficient solar (including orbital solar), and, even within the fossil-fuel world, moving from coal and oil to natural gas.
TRAPPED IN A “FALSE COMA:” A man believed to be unconscious was conscious, but completely paralyzed, for 23 years. He had no way to communicate to the people around him that he could hear, think, and understand everything.
From the comments: “Lucky that they weren’t more ‘compassionate’ and didn’t try to starve and dehydrate him to death.”
CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: Lord Monckton on the CRU Emails: “They Are Criminals.”
STEVE CHAPMAN: Gun Control, Chicago Style. A rule under which only politicians have guns strikes me as the worst of all possible worlds . . . .
WHAT DOES A WMD LOOK LIKE in disguise?
A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for the International Space Station?
IN THE MAIL: From John Fund, How the Obama Administration Threatens to Undermine Our Elections.
BILL WHITTLE’S Guantanamo Bay Diary, Part One.
RAND SIMBERG: Global WarmingGate: When Scientists Become Politicians.
WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO: The Bureaucrat In The Exam Room.