Searching the Web for Earth Day stories I came across this one at ABCNews.com entitled: "Is Venus Our Future? Scientists Seeking to Learn More About Earth Through Its 'Twin' " The piece is appropriately written by Amanda Onion -- because the thing stinks. Anyone curious about what a worst-case global warming scenario might look like […]
Well, today is Earth Day, and much of it was spent following the Gore line of referring to Bush as the worst environmental despoiler since Saddam Hussein set oil wells afire upon leaving Kuwait. I caught a few minutes of ABC's "World News Tonight" and their Earth Day report. After a quick blurb from Bush, […]
Most scientists say the Earth is warming. Most of them also think that humans are responsible for it. Or at least they say that in an effort to get research money. I mean, after all, if it were normal for the Earth as a whole to periodically warm and cool, then there'd really be no […]
I'm writing and watching the San Diego Padres vs. L.A. Dodgers on TV right now. The color commentator is former major-leaguer Rick Sutcliffe. Sutcliffe splits his time between doing Padres telecasts and some work for ESPN. I think he's probably the worst color-man in the business. The guy comes across as a big, pompous know-it-all […]
Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, polls showed that many Democrats were actually happy that George W. Bush was president. They believed that in time of war Gore certainly wasn't the man for the job. Former President Jimmy Carter's op-ed in today's New York Times offers evidence that maybe the anti-Gore sentiment wasn't personal. There's […]
The New York Times editorial page leans left. Despite CBS Dan Rather's contention that it's middle of the road, it can't really hide its bias when they run two pieces of inane gibberish by Al Gore and Jimmy Carter -- on the same day! I'm too exhausted to properly dissect them now. Come back for […]
Cartoonist Paul Conrad is challenging Ted Rall for the title of America's Dumbest Cartoonist. Conrad's latest cartoon (found here) likens the Israelis to Osama bin Laden's terrorists. An airliner with the Star of David on its tail heads toward the towers of two mosques. The lack of moral direction that it takes to suggest that […]
Today, New York Times columnist Paul "Line 47" Krugman tries his hand at rhyming and an honest analysis of President Bush's tax policy. He succeeds at one of them. [T[he Bush administration really, really dislikes sharing information with Congress. Dick Cheney refuses to release the records of his energy task force; Tom Ridge won't testify […]
Yesterday the House passed legislation that would make the tax cut passed last year permanent. The marriage penalty and the estate tax are among the items that will die a permanent death, and will not be resurrected in 2011. Democrats sought to tie the vote to what they view as their most potent electoral issue, […]
Fox News last night has a short item on Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) who led the pledge of allegiance on the House floor yesterday had a problem saying the words "under God." Not that she mangled them. She just didn't say it. According to Brit Hume, her staff said that she had to swallow, and it […]