From your “liberal” New York Times: But haven’t I read economists saying that a bill that small will make almost no dent in unemployment? Is that sort of thing the only hope for bipartisanship? It depends on what you mean by bipartisanship. Nothing is stopping Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats from adding more Republican ideas [...]

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The BBC has it in for fat people. It’s not that the new organization merely reports on the findings of various studies purporting to explain obesity; nor that they pass on this information without question or challenge. They do those things, certainly, but it’s the way these articles are written the show such incredibly smug [...]

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According to Gawker, CNN president Jon Klein put the kibosh on Lou Dobbs’ promotion of the “birther” conspiracy theory. In an e-mail sent to Dobbs and the rest of the news network, Klein forwards an explanation from the Hawaii Health Department he contends “seems to definitively answer the question” of the origins of Barack Obama’s [...]

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Carl Zimmer takes issue with George Will’s “see no evil” approach to global warming and the Washington Post’s mamby-pamby fact-checking: Will ignores the fact that climate change is a noisy, long-term process. Today it is cooler at my house than it was yesterday. That does not mean that next week I will wake up to [...]

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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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Okay, so I think I said I wouldn’t say anything more about Sarah Palin. But this is just too provocative: The abruptness of her announcement and the mystery surrounding her plans have fed widespread speculation. But Palin attorney Thomas Van Flein on Saturday warned legal action may be taken against bloggers and publications that reprint [...]

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Click the cartoon to read it full size. Unrelated thoughts…. Today I watched several hours of MSNBC and CNN. Don’t ask me why. It might be some masochistic streak in my personality. Or I am secretly addicted to non-stop updates on all things Michael Jackson, Sarah Palin, and the endless speculation about the impact of [...]

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Old tech called it “above the fold.” BTW – Political cartoons return Tuesday.

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