Backseat driving

I've been sitting on a fair amount of cash and just today put a large chunk on a socially responsible index fund (DSEFX), that tracks th...

Inel has the goods on these credit card scammers/potential identity thieves. Same thing as before: a fake conference on global warming (...

News item : Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin , who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, ...

This is very inside-baseball climate blogging, so normal humans might not be interested in reading it. I don't even reach a final concl...

My wife's friend operates a start-up business in Karachi. It was 100 feet from ground zero of the attack. It's totalled. Fortuna...

I knew that McCain betrayed his anti-torture principles by allowing CIA to torture while prohibiting the military from doing it. I didn...

The headline above paraphrases Time Magazine's Michael Scherer , criticizing the Obama campaign for pointing out McCain's long recor...

If this new, supersecret counterinsurgency technique is so game-changing in Iraq , why hasn't it been used in Afghanistan, where things ...

Brinley Evans was a good friend of mine from high school. She died last week after a long battle with breast cancer. Brinley was a family ...

I will agree there's been a slightly unfair attack on Sarah Palin regarding the "holy war" issue. The full quote: “Pray for o...

More retreating from McCain's promise of a weak version of cap-and-trade, by McCain surrogate Tim Pawlenty : First of all, anything that...

Think Progress says the words "climate change" and "global warming" were mentioned all of one time each at last week...

Maybe this response will help other folks that have received similar emails from their relatives or friends. Note that the "sources...

With months to prepare, why did McCain find out politically-relevant information about Palin only two days before the election and had met h...

A RealClimate piece on geoengineering through pumping massive amounts of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere doesn't make it seem very att...

Turning on the radio without knowing who's speaking, I thought she was some female Clinton supporter dragged up on stage and reluctantly...

The "Global Warming and Climate Change International Conference & Exposition" in London this September doesn't really exis...

Glenn Greenwald found a bunch of abusive quotations from the 2004 election criticizing John Kerry for marrying a wealthy heiress, and impli...

I think the universe has two purposes: to irritate me, personally; and to make it blindingly obvious to anyone whenever I, personally, am a...

Mostly just rehashing something I've mentioned in the past, but this time in response to Mark Kleiman's point regarding climate chan...