In an opinion piece in Saturday's Washington Post, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon identifies the root of the genocide taking place in Darfur. Almost invariably, we discuss Darfur in a convenient military and political shorthand -- an ethnic conflict pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers. Look to its roots, though, and you […]
And I thought Dianne Feinstein was the smart California senator. Today during a press conference advocating an increase of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards to 35 miles per gallon Feinstein wanted to know why Americans weren't like the Chinese. [The following quote is verbatim from video shown on Fox News, I couldn't find […]
Every time I read something worth blogging about, I keep it open in a separate Firefox tab until I get around to it. I don't always get around to it in a prompt manner, so here's some interesting reads from the past week or so, so I can close some of these tabs. Sci-Fi author […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi honored the sacrifice of American men and women who have given their last full measure of devotion by going to Greenland and Germany. Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat unfamiliar with glaciers, has determined that global warming is real. The California Democrat pointed to her delegation's weekend stop in Greenland, "where we […]
Criminy, now there's evidence that carbon emissions from SUVs and coal-fired power plants are raising the temperature ... of Neptune. Please, everyone please ignore the big, bright ball of gas commonly referred to as "the Sun."
John Guillebaud should lead by example and kill himself. I don't say that lightly. Guillebaud is a professor emeritus of family planning at University College London. This means that he's old. His most productive years are behind him, but he has a cause. "The greatest thing anyone in Britain could do to help the future […]
I knew there was more to that plan to send those two rovers to Mars. It turns out that they were part of a plot to implicate the sun in global warming -- both on Earth and Mars. Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red […]
Lewis Black's comedy can be R-rated at times. But he's generally PG-13 when appearing on Comedy Central. This clip had me practically rolling on the floor when I first saw it. I loved the Matt Damon clip. Matt Damon: If your house is anything like mine... Lewis Black: Stop. It's not. It's a lot smaller. […]
As usual, the truth is probably somewhere between what busybodies Laurie David and Sheryl Crow say and this account from an anonymous eyewitness who appears a bit more friendly to Karl Rove. Having said that, if Sheryl Crow had poked me in the chest, the unemployment rate would've gone down because she'd have to hire […]
Singer Sheryl Crow has a talent for putting together some catchy tunes, should limit her pronouncements to the rhythmic, rather than public policy. Crow's plan to save the trees isn't to plant more of them. No, her plan is to enforce a limit on the use of toilet paper. I propose a limitation be put […]