Here is a great piece on the history of Christmas celebration at the White House that I think a lot of you will really enjoy. I did.
The History of Christmas at the White HousePost + Comments (10)
by John Cole| 10 Comments
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Here is a great piece on the history of Christmas celebration at the White House that I think a lot of you will really enjoy. I did.
The History of Christmas at the White HousePost + Comments (10)
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Kevin Drum tweeted this last night, and I just remembered it thanks to Bob Cesca, but this seven part review of why the Phantom Menace sucked is just awesome:
You can see the other six parts here. May the force be with you.
And if you cringed every time he pronounced protaganist as “Pro-tuh-gone-ist,” you are probably an effete liberal who likes arugula and dijon mustard.
Greedo Probably Would Have Shot HimselfPost + Comments (185)
by John Cole| 36 Comments
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Great piece by Jonathon Chait in TNR.
by John Cole| 38 Comments
This post is in: Excellent Links, Science & Technology
This is pretty awesome stuff- the top ten astronomy pictures of the year.
My favorite is this one:
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James Joyner provides a rebuttal to the notion that KSM should be tried, and it is notable for the fact that it contains actual arguments and not screaming and wailing and wet underpants.
by DougJ| 384 Comments
This post is in: Domestic Politics, Excellent Links, Good News For Conservatives
Word on the street is that Dems have the votes to get this whole health care huckleberry through the House tonight.
I know some of the amendments suck. But still, we’re one step closer to getting health insurance for tens of millions of Americans.
I have a hard time writing about health care reform without sounding sappy, so I’ll shut up and throw up a YouTube.
DougJ +5
Update. We are at 212.
Update 218!!!!
As recommended by a commenter, time 4:30 of this.
Update update. Maybe this is a link too far. But I don’t think so.
by Tim F| 26 Comments
This post is in: Election 2008, Excellent Links, Science & Technology, General Stupidity
As much as I love the professional climatologists who write RealClimate, they rarely let the anti-science crowd bait them into the kind of high dudgeon that makes PZ Myers or Tom Levenson so much fun to read.
Part of the reason for their patient tone is that most denialists are either too limited (e.g., Inhofe) or too mercenary (TechCentralStation, George Will) to absorb any correction. Since the debate opponent won’t even acknowledge that you exist most of the time, real climate scientists usually write for interested third parties. That is what makes the response from RC to the pseudo-denialist authors of Superfreakonomics (in truth, contrarians of the vanity kind that DougJ writes about), professionals with credibility to defend, so worthwhile to read.
I have very much enjoyed and benefited from the growing collaborations between Geosciences and the Economics department here at the University of Chicago, and had hoped someday to have the pleasure of making your acquaintance. It is more in disappointment than anger that I am writing to you now.
I am addressing this to you rather than your journalist-coauthor because one has become all too accustomed to tendentious screeds from media personalities (think Glenn Beck) with a reckless disregard for the truth. However, if it has come to pass that we can’t expect the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor (and Clark Medalist to boot) at a top-rated department of a respected university to think clearly and honestly with numbers, we are indeed in a sad way.
No more excerpts. The whole post is great so go read it.