Backseat driving

"Cheap, tawdry, and useless" - Tim Ball

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

I'm in

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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...
Monday, September 29, 2008

They're baaack - more credit card scammers with nonexistent global warming conferences

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Inel has the goods on these credit card scammers/potential identity thieves. Same thing as before: a fake conference on global warming (...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

A Casablanca/Palin mashup needed

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News item : Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin , who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, ...
Friday, September 26, 2008

The Oreskes-Nierenberg thingy

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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...
Monday, September 22, 2008

Start-up problems

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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...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

Even McCain's fig leaf on torture is a lie

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I knew that McCain betrayed his anti-torture principles by allowing CIA to torture while prohibiting the military from doing it. I didn...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Shorter Michael Scherer: what idiot said "by their fruit ye shall know them"?

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The headline above paraphrases Time Magazine's Michael Scherer , criticizing the Obama campaign for pointing out McCain's long recor...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A question for Bob Woodward

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If this new, supersecret counterinsurgency technique is so game-changing in Iraq , why hasn't it been used in Afghanistan, where things ...
Monday, September 15, 2008

Brinley Evans, 1967-2008

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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 ...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hope versus belief in holy war

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I will agree there's been a slightly unfair attack on Sarah Palin regarding the "holy war" issue. The full quote: “Pray for o...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

More McCain campaign backing away from cap-and-trade

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More retreating from McCain's promise of a weak version of cap-and-trade, by McCain surrogate Tim Pawlenty : First of all, anything that...
Monday, September 08, 2008

Full remarks of Republican National Convention speakers on climate change

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Think Progress says the words "climate change" and "global warming" were mentioned all of one time each at last week...
Saturday, September 06, 2008

Refuting the lying McCain-Obama comparison email that's going around

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Maybe this response will help other folks that have received similar emails from their relatives or friends. Note that the "sources...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Obama's role in McCain's veep stumbles

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With months to prepare, why did McCain find out politically-relevant information about Palin only two days before the election and had met h...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Unilateral geoengineering against the global interest

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A RealClimate piece on geoengineering through pumping massive amounts of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere doesn't make it seem very att...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Bad radio test for Kathleen Sebelius

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Turning on the radio without knowing who's speaking, I thought she was some female Clinton supporter dragged up on stage and reluctantly...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Inel spots your more typical Internet con artists on the climate change beat

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The "Global Warming and Climate Change International Conference & Exposition" in London this September doesn't really exis...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Rush Limbaugh, other conservatives insult Cindy and John McCain

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Glenn Greenwald found a bunch of abusive quotations from the 2004 election criticizing John Kerry for marrying a wealthy heiress, and impli...
Saturday, August 23, 2008

Biden and the Universe

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I think the universe has two purposes: to irritate me, personally; and to make it blindingly obvious to anyone whenever I, personally, am a...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Error bands and known unknowns

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