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Happy Anniversary: Clip Show
It's been one year to the day when I decided to offer a daily column. Below are the ones that did not turn out too badly. Funny Fun Wolf Blitzer…
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Hollywood: Stop Making Movies And Lower Your Carbon Footprint
Just last week British movie director Richard Curtis thought it would be jolly to simulate the brutal killing of children who did not fret sufficiently over global warming. In his…
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Director Explodes Children In Name of Environment; College Degrees Don’t Always Pay
The delta-V at which I am approaching death has increased because I was crammed into an aluminum tube with two hundred sneezing strangers who unburdened their diseases upon me, and…
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CO2 Is Very Very Too Much
"What is global warming?" The state of global warming politics has finally reached kitsch. Take a look at the video below, a snippet from the game show Super Center ABC…
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Causality: Guest Post by DAV
Today's guest post, on a subject dear to us all, is by long-time reader (and now contributor) DAV. While fencing in many of the Web's blogs it's not uncommon to…
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“Climate Calamity” Rejected In Favor Of “Climate Disruption”
President Obama's White House has been hard at work trying to discover another term for global warming. The old phrase was deemed staid and passé, so much so that its…
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Solar Flares, Coronal Mass Ejections, And Evil Alien Conquerors
NASA, when it can spare time from its outreaching to the Muslims of the world, manages to fit in a little science. Like from its nearly spanking new Solar Dynamics…
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Power Balance Bracelets And Celebrity
Power to the people! In the form of a small silicone bracelet into which is embedded a Star-Trek-The-Next-Generation-esque hologram (an entire deck being outside the range of present technology). Athletes…