Global Climate Change

Some of you may have heard from one news source or another that in Britain, a high court ruled that "An Inconvenient Truth," when screened as part of a lesson plan in secondary schools, must include certain caveats.

Some of YOU may have subsequently learned that the caveats are reasonable, and that the high court ALSO ruled that the film was, on the whole, scientifically sound.

Far less of you, though, have heard that the gentleman who brought the suit was financed by British companies who fund studies specifically to refute global warming. Like the American studies funded by people at Exxon/Mobil.

I think a lot of people hear "British high court" and think, "Ah ha! This is not an American or Middle-Eastern body, so it must not have anything to do with energy politics!" BZZT. You lose. Energy politics are more global than you think.

John Edwards

I heard John Edwards on the Jim Lehrer News Hour a couple of nights ago and I really liked pretty much everything he had to say. Weird. Then again, I only heard the last 15 minutes or so.

Yarrr.

Okay, Rush. If you didn't call troops who are vocal against the war "phony soldiers," then Kerry didn't call the men overseas stupid. I'd be willing to go with "taken out of context" even for a bloviating shitbag like you, if you didn't make your CAREER out of taking other people's words out of context.

I wish I could grow a scrotum so I could deny you the opportunity to lick it.

Pelosi sucks.

TSIA

Jon Stewart

So let me get this straight:
Jon Stewart is a comedian. Jon Stewart is not a journalist. Jon Stewart will be the first one to agree that he is a comedian on a comedy channel, and NOT a journalist on a news channel.
But because some people get their news from The Daily Show (while understanding that it is comedy and not news), Jon Stewart should be holding himself and his staff to some sort of journalistic standard.

*smashes head repeatedly against wall, becomes more brain-damaged, somehow feels smarter*

War on Drugs

When's the last time you heard of a bunch of kids killing a bunch of other kids over.... beer money?