While all good sensible people tut-tut another random flare-up of violence by people historically neglected, oppressed and impoverished — even as our governments look for more ways to make the poor suffer and the wealthy more comfy — let’s distract ourselves with an improper outburst of pearl-clutching proportions from one of our political elites. Al [...]

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The WaPo reports BP crapped 4.9 million barrels (205.8 million gallons) of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Or about a quarter of the U.S. daily consumption of oil, per CIA World Factbook 2008 estimate. But double that of India, whose population is significantly larger than my native land. So per capita, it’s pretty sad [...]

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Here is today’s In Contempt, another single panel on global warming. And today’s installment of the “Search Party” story of Wanderlost. I didn’t do a Lieberman cartoon, because, really, as much of a dick as he is, his exaggerated power merely underscores the political witlessness of the Democratic leadership. According to Mike Madden, here is [...]

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This moneyquote from Hollywood Elsewhere on the political implications of James Cameron’s Avatar is making the rounds. But it’s pretty juicy, so here goes: The political import of Avatar — and there’s no waving this aspect away because it’s right in your face start to finish, and especially in the third act — is ardently [...]

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A new poll by the Pew Research Center reports yet another huge gap between the American scientific community and the public at large. According to the NYTimes, the main areas are “climate change” (a euphemism for “global warming” as poor in content as “enhanced interrogation techniques” is to “torture”), evolution, and the value of research [...]

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