SO BEN SMITH AT POLITICO WRITES FIVE PAGES ON COPENHAGEN’S PROBLEMS, and this is the only mention — in five pages — of ClimateGate:

Other polling suggests Americans are growing more skeptical of the science behind climate change, with those who blame human activity for global warming — 36 percent — falling 11 percentage points this year, according to Pew.

That skepticism is likely to increase following the embarrassing leak last month of e-mail exchanges among climate scientists dissing the work of peers who doubt that humans are causing global warming.

Kind of missing the big story here . . . .

GOOGLE PUBLIC DNS and your privacy. “To think that Google’s DNS service is for the benefit of the Internet would be naive. They know there is value in controlling more of your Internet experience, and I would expect them to explore that fully.”

DON SURBER: Obama hosts a job summit while his EPA kills jobs.

FEMALE COLUMNIST cheers domestic violence against Tiger Woods.

It would be easy to judge Elin for the choices she makes. . . . Instead, I say that she should do whatever it is she has to do. If that is taking the tool of her husband’s trade to smash the window of his Cadillac Escalade, so be it. . . . While there will certainly be an audience waiting with bated breath to criticize whether Elin stays with Tiger or walks away, I think we should stand by Elin instead. And if she needs a friend to go at the rest of the windows, pass the golf clubs, Elin. I’ve got your back.

Funny, I thought there was no excuse for domestic violence. I guess that’s only if you’re a man.

UPDATE: A question for columnist Jessica Ashley.

SCOTT JOHNSON: The Walpin Pretext. Sounds like a Ludlum novel. But would Ludlum have ever written this? “Walpin was fired after he blew the whistle on waste of government funds by a nonprofit run by Johnson, who in addition to being Obama’s friend is also the mayor of Sacramento.”

CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: Phil Jones accused of making error of judgment by colleague.

One of the scientists to whom the emails were addressed, Professor Michael Mann, the Director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University has moved to distance himself from some of the comments in the emails that suggest scientists did not want the IPCC, the UN body charged with monitoring climate change, to consider studies that challenged the view global warming was genuine and man-made.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight, Prof Mann said: “I can’t put myself in the mind of the person who wrote that email and sent it. I in no way endorse what was in that email.”

Prof Mann also said he could not “justify” a request from Prof Jones that he should delete some of his own emails to prevent them from being seen by outsiders.

No longer maintaining a united front.

THE NEWS THAT’S ROCKING THE NEWSPAPER INDUSTRY: Section editors at Dallas Morning News now report to sales managers.

UPDATE: A lot of commenters seem to think that will be an improvement. . . .

ANDY MCCARTHY: Somebody At Fort Hood Should Be Walking The Plank.

SPECULATION: Is James Hansen The ClimateGate Leaker?

MY EARLIER TECH-BLEG POST on AM radios suitable for the sticks produced a number of emails from readers.

Several said the problem wasn’t the radio, but needing a better antenna. Reader Rob Witmer recommends the Terk AM-100. “Passive AM antenna requires no AM antenna jack. Greatly improves reception of weak signals. Works well during the day and even better at night.”

And reader William Goelkel writes: “Your reader in Colorado needs an antenna, not a new radio. Suggest he find a local ham radio operator. Most would be delighted to help build one; no charge. List of HAM clubs in CO.” Hams are amazingly generous folks, in my experience.

And Charlie Martin writes: ‘Glenn, I grew up in those mountains; what we used to do was just string out a long wire for an antenna.” Don’t forget the lightning arrestor!

Alan Paprocki spoke for many when he wrote: “Heavens, why not the GE Superradio? It’s quite famous, you know.”

Jerry Hunter writes: “I have 2 Sangeans, a PR-D5 AM-FM and an ATS-909 AM-FM-Worldband . The AM sections are as good as you are likely to find these days. They don’t make them like they used to. Today they seem to be included as an afterthought. When I was a teenager I had a tube radio that would pull in AM stations from hundreds of miles away, especially at night.”

Lots of people also recommended Crane radios.

I’d try the antenna first, but my little Grundig pulled in stations from all over with no external antenna needed. I’m not sure what happened to it. I do have one of these hand-cranked AM/FM/Shortwave radios for emergencies, but I haven’t tried it out on long-distance listening.

And there’s always internet streaming! Reader Andrew Hamilton sends this site to help find live streams.

UPDATE: Reader James Clark writes:

I suggest you and or your person contact Bob Crane, the proprietor of the C.Crane Co. at 800-522-8863, or at ccrane.com. I think your best results, in this case, come from dealing directly with Mr. Crane. He is an AM radio aficionado of many years who has created a business around his interest. His knowledge extends far beyond the products in his current catalog including into the world of antennae. I have found him easily approachable and a person readily enjoying to talk about the world of radio.

That’s cool.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Harry Shearer emails: “I agree re: the Sangean. In my youth, I had a car radio that, on cold winter nights in LA, could pick up WABC New York, which was supposed to be impossible. It is now.” Yeah, I wonder how much of that is a decline in radio quality and how much is increased interference from more gadgets and spectrum use. Anybody know?

MORE: Or the lack of sunspots. Reader Dan McAfee writes:

I read an interesting article in World Radio Magazine the other day (on page 28 of the pdf) and wrote about it here. I would have thought that the quiet sun (no sunspots) would be a boon to radio communications, but it turns out that sunspots increase solar winds which brush cosmic rays away from Earth… no sunspots, more cosmic rays, poorer reception. And we’re in the deepest solar minimum in a century…

Good point.

STILL MORE: Or maybe it’s just bureaucrats. Reader Jim McKee writes:

The problem of not being able to get WABC is a result of the FCC changing the protections for “clear channel” am stations. Some stations like WABC (or WOWO in my old home town in Ft. Wayne, IN) had frequencies to themselves and more power. Whenever I mention my hometown to people over a certain age they still mention that the only thing they know about it was having heard WOWO. More info. on the decline of clear channel stations on wikipedia here.

This has been an interesting discussion!

VIDEO: JON STEWART sees something familiar in Obama’s speech. “Jon Stewart seems to take the media job of holding the current administration accountable a bit more seriously these days than the, er, actual media. Stewart compares Barack Obama’s speech on Afghanistan with one given two years ago by that notorious warmonger George Bush, and finds … a lot of disturbing similarities.”

MARKDOWNS ON sports and outdoor equipment.

JOY BEHAR: At Least Tiger’s No Right-Wing Hypocrite.

BILL WHITTLE, AFTERBURNER: Kudos for Obama, Plus the True Anti-America Agendas of Matthews, Moore & Olbermann. Quite a beat-down on those last three.

SORRY, BUT I DON’T THINK THAT laws should be copyrightable.

TECH BLEG: A reader emails:

I’m working on my retirement cabin in the Colorado mountains, and I like to listen to AM talk radio. But the reception where I’m building (Wet Valley between the Wet Mountains and the Sangre de Cristos mountains) is poor, to say the least. Do you or any of your readers know of a good, reliable AM radio that pulls in weak signals? My wife would have an easy Christmas present idea for me at least, if there is one.

I used to have a little Grundig (I think it was the earlier model of this one) that did a great job of pulling in stations, but it was kind of pricey. Any recommendations?

INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: Teaching is Not a Crime: Challenging Virginia’s Unconstitutional Regulation of Yoga Teacher Training.

The Institute For Justice website is here.

ARE CONSERVATIVES GETTING overconfident? I think so. It’s easy to see why, watching the clown show in Washington, but remember — these are the clowns who kicked your ass a year ago . . . .

POPULAR SCIENCE: A buyer’s guide on pocket MP3 players.

CLIMATEGATE FALLOUT? Al Gore “Abruptly” Cancels Personal Appearance In Copenhagen.

THE EIGHTEEN strangest roads in the world.

AT CAR LUST, CHRIS HAFNER IS RUNNING A $2500 used car challenge.

REASON TV: Garrett Peck on The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America From Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet.

BYRON YORK: In Panic Over Jobs, Dems Detour From Health Care.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: Wingsuits Pushed for Airborne Assaults. “Aided by extremely precise instruments and a flight computer, the wingman comes in at low level and high speed, before pulling up and dropping gently to the ground at exactly the right spot. It might sound wild, but it would certainly surprise the bad guys.” Er, or the good guys, depending on who deploys it first. . . .