Backseat driving

When the Volokhs move away from legal analysis and libertarian theory into straight political posts, we often get something like this post b...

I've not blogged about the Stern Review analyzing the impacts of climate change because I've not had anything intelligent to say. B...

Yes, I am spinning it by using "reasonable" and "simplistic" terms for libertarians, something the simplistic libertaria...

There has been a lot of discussion on blogs about the various reports saying that planting trees outside of the tropics can actually cause a...

Yeah, it surprised me too, but the Jan. 25th print version had an editorial by Bruce Berkowitz that said something reasonable about the envi...

Here's a typical rumor that went around last fall : September 19, 2006 Will Bush Change His Mind on Global Warming? "Pres...

Over at Stoat, James Annan needles Steve Bloom for not automatically taking an alleged "informed layperson" position of guessing ...

William at Stoat doesn't like Al Gore's "jet-setting lifestyle," and my defense of Gore also didn't impress him. W...

My random notes, no particular order. Some of what he said was more or less off the record, so I'll skip that stuff. On Kyoto: -The mo...

In an interesting post at the Corner, Rich Lowry calls Bush a liar (okay, "low-ball"-er) for saying his punt of five brigades and ...

The normally-excellent Mark Kleiman wrote a not-excellent post about geoengineering to combat global warming a while back. Kleiman felt it...

The meme is catching on, now at Talking Points Memo : For Democrats opposed to the Iraq war who still fear a backlash for not being tough e...

I've wanted to try out doing improv theater for over ten years, despite not being a theater person and despite not being particularly dr...

I disagree with criticism by Stoat and many others about Gore's "jet-setting" lifestyle , consisting of his riding commercial ...

I forget where I read that the best term for the "surge" isn't escalation but a troop "punt" - the idea is to punt r...

Nobody will bet. James Inhofe won't bet. Christopher Monckton won't bet. Tom McClintock, Lubos Motl, Glen Raphael, Onar An, Steve...

Just pointing out a cool post by Afarensis, showing and analyzing pictures of an Australopithecus skull, in comparison with modern ape skull...

Several months ago, there was a minor buzz in the blogosphere that Bush would do something dramatic about global warming in the 2007 State o...

Avg. daily Coalition fatality rate during the last month: 3.74 (nearly all Americans, and excluding Iraqis) Previous averages November: 2....

So here we are once again, sitting in San Jose Airport for hours, waiting for the Alaska Airlines flight to replace the one they cancelled o...