HEH: If The Tree of Global Warming Fell In The Living Rooms of The American Press And No One Reported It Would It Make A Sound?

RIC LOCKE ON TEA PARTY PROTESTS AS TEACHING/LEARNING TOOL: “Look at it this way: everybody who’s actually been to a Tea Party rally, then watched Teh Newz afterwards, knows from personal experience that the alphabet media are a pack of liars and bigots. I consider that far more important than anything having directly to do with the Government.”

Well, being part of pretty much any event that’s covered by the news media can be a learning experience, but, yeah, it goes triple when they’ve got a strong agenda, too . . . .

Atlanta, Georgia.

AT AMAZON, IT’S THE President’s Day Clothing Sale.

SO, DO WE HAVE ENOUGH TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN THAT WE’RE NOT JUST “Air Raiding Villages and Killing Civilians?”

Apparently not.

BILL QUICK: If the GOP cannot find some way to align itself with the Tea Party and its ethos, then it will be swept away.

NIKKI DOWLING: Girl On Girl: Dating Women Makes Me Sympathize With Men.

HEY, WAIT: Bryant Gumbel is still on the air? Who knew? Not me. I guess this’ll remind people, which is probably the goal . . . .

UPDATE: Apparently this video isn’t new. So I guess it’s not proof that he’s still on the air. Is he?

AIRBRUSH: Tina Fey’s Scar Vanishes on Vogue Cover.

L.A. TIMES: Some Democrats Keep Distance From Obama.

NEW JERSEY: Menendez NJ Recall Update: The Tea Party Goes to Court.

THE RETURN OF Crony Capitalism.

CLIMATEGATE: Viscount Monckton Takes A Victory Lap.

GOOD GRIEF: Alleged Ala. killer was suspect in attempted bombing of Harvard professor. “Amy Bishop and her husband, James Anderson, were questioned after a package containing two bombs was sent to the Newton home of Dr. Paul Rosenberg, a professor and doctor at Boston’s Children’s Hospital. It was the second startling revelation in two days about the past of Bishop, who is accused of fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others Friday afternoon at a faculty meeting on the University of Alabama’s Huntsville, Ala. campus.”

MEGAN MCARDLE: “For some reason, everyone I’ve seen who has so far responded to my piece on mortality and the lack of insurance has pulled exactly the same debater’s trick: they restate my argument in maximalist form, and then proceed to really kick the hell out of the strawman they’ve created.”

ANSWERING A LONG-FELT NEED: Whiskey-flavored toothpaste.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Would You See As You Plummet Into A Black Hole?

UPDATE: Reader Clifford Grout writes: “Ask the California Legislature.” Heh.

WASHINGTON POST: Under Obama, more targeted killings than captures in counterterrorism efforts.

WORST VALENTINE’S GIFTS, ever.

A REVIEW OF The Lightning Thief. Not exactly two thumbs up . . . .

VISUALIZING the Cosmic All.

CLIMATEGATE: More on the Phil Jones interview.

TOOL TIME (CONT’D): So I bought this multi-tool gadget because I saw it in Popular Mechanics and it looked cool and wasn’t too expensive. It came the other day, and it’s smaller than it looked. It’s hard to imagine either the hatchet or the hammer doing much serious work, but it wouldn’t be a bad addition to a small toolbox or a glove compartment. Kinda like the ReadyWrench, it’s designed to be handy for occasional use, I think. But hey, if you’ve got this, the Ready Wrench, and a Skeletool, you’re pretty well equipped in not much space.

A VALENTINE’S DAY PICTURE FROM MICHAEL YON.

A crew from the United States Air Force spent Saturday night and Sunday morning airlifting different groups of wounded soldiers from Kandahar to Camp Bastion to Bagram, back to Kandahar, then back to Bagram, and back to Kandahar. These patients were from Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, and the United States. Here, an Air Force nurse caresses the head of a wounded, unconscious Canadian soldier while whispering into his ear. (Photo and caption by Michael Yon).

CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: What Did Phil Jones Actually Admit? Was He Correct?