It’s the 1970s all over again. Back then, climate scientists feared a new ice age. In the 80s and 90s, the fear was global warming. They’re now back to fearing an ice age.
“Triggering Abrupt Climate Change: Can Global Warming Cause an ‘Ice Age’” [via blogdex]
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Here’s more on Congressmen McDermott (D-Iraq), Bonior (D-Iraq), and Thompson (D-Iraq). While they’re tooling around Iraq, they said they have total access to whatever they want to look at. “They have not kept us from doing anything we asked to do,” said McDermott, who formerly represented Washington state. But Bonior, who formerly […]
There are exceptions to everything, including Minnesota Nice:
On Saturday, about 16 to 20 Minnesota College Republicans and staff members from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Norm Coleman’s campaign stood in the rain in front of the Fine Line, chanting “Deport Baldwin” and waving signs that said “Paul Wellstone, bad for Minnesota farmers” and “Baldwin and PETA […]
By way of Punditwatch, I found out Congressmen Jim McDermott (D-WA), and David Bonoir (D-MI) are hanging out in Baghdad! Please tell me they’re on a secret mission scoping out targets for the air force. No, McDermott was blasting away at his own government while on the soil of his nation’s enemy. […]
When Iraq is freed from Saddam’s tyranny, what should happen to the country? David Pryce-Jones wouldn’t mind a break-up into its ethnic parts. Iraq was just a state brought together by the British Empire.
“The End of the Pax Britannica“
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When it comes to the phrase “The American Mind,” Google thinks TAM is more important than a famous book written in the 1980s. I’m flattered even though it’s the result of some impersonal algorithm.
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121 years ago, a man was born who would turn out to be one of the most important social thinkers of the 20th Century. In 1881, Ludwig von Mises was born in Austria, went to college in Vienna, taught there as well as in Switzerland and the United States. His contributions to classical […]
James Fallows has a “must read” article on what kind of situation a post-war Iraq could be. He delves into what an occupying American force would have to do from crumbling into anarchy. The possiblities aren’t pleasant–having Iran as a “permanent enemy” doesn’t sound appealing. Invasion could set back the rising democratic […]
Trent Rezor is a sonic genius who changed the way Rock music and machines interact. At his core, he knows it isn’t how the music is made, but what the music is.
Just because you can buy a box of software now for a couple hundred bucks that can make a great-sounding album that doesn’t […]
11-year-olds will have access to morning-after pills without parental consent. What do you expect? 11-year-olds having sex is just another “lifestyle choice.” We don’t want to impose our old-fashion notions of right and wrong on the young and impressionable. Instead, we’ll drop any moral pretenses and hand out pills so they […]
This is the music video Plant/Page/Jones should release to get all the kids hooked on Zeppelin. Don’t tick off these felines.
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Nick Schulz takes the first shot at The American Conservative. He wonders how conservative Pat Buchanan is anymore since his positions parallel many non-conservatives:
If the folks at TAC believe they can demonstrate that they are truer to some timeless “faith” than anyone else, they have a tough road ahead. Buchanan claims he and his […]
Lynn’s fed up with ABC News. I haven’t bothered with Peter Jennings and the gang for years.
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Eugene Volokh’s scenario is frightening, yet plausible. The reason to take out Saddam and liberate Iraq is that if Iraq builds a bomb, it will be used against the United States. Either Saddam would use it as in Eugene’s speculative fiction, or terrorists will use it. What I fear most is waking […]
Jim’s list of things to do with his new house gives me a whole bunch of reasons never to buy one.
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