If you have time for only one long-form journalism story this week, read “The Apostate” by Lawrence Wright in the current issue of the The New Yorker. (The story is not behind a paywall.) Wright’s piece is superb on multiple levels- as a profile of a wayward young man who goes on to become an…Continue Reading…
I don’t know which is more brilliant, the headline, Guns N’ Peas Is Where the Trajectory of Man Began It’s Steady Decline or this passage: Let’s face it. We all know that, thanks to pollution and war and overpopulation, we will eventually end up destroying our species. But the video linked here represents the exact…Continue Reading…
Budiansky writes a killer blog lede: In the geography of politics, there is a strange and shadowy place far, far down the narrowing alleys of the left, where one turns a final corner and is suddenly face to face with like-minded wanderers who arrived at the same spot from exactly the opposite direction, via equally…Continue Reading…
Did Joe Romm ghostwrite Paul Krugman’s column in today’s NYT? Let’s look at the uncanny similarities between Krugman’s op-ed and an argument advanced by Romm in several of his recent posts. For example, Krugman writes today (my emphasis): After all, the big question about uprisings against corrupt and oppressive regimes in the Middle East isn’t…Continue Reading…
Thomas Ricks at Foreign Policy finds some striking similarities between a bird-watching manual and a primer on how to spot bad guys. My old colleagues at Audubon magazine should go to town on this one.
MIT Climate scientist Kerry Emanuel is becoming increasingly outspoken about his alienation from the Republican party. Yesterday, he was interviewed on NPR and he spoke candidly on many of the current hot button topics. Here he is, angst-ridden over the direction of the GOP: I’m very distressed that Republicans, and I have always been a…Continue Reading…
In the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately dept, I see that Fred Pearce is getting worked over by hysterics in the climate sphere. For the record, I’ve already stated several times (at my site) and over at Judith Curry’s blog that Pearce committed a boo-boo no-no in a recent blog post. Deltoid blows this up into “Pearcegate.” Stoat sinks…Continue Reading…
As the saying goes, third time is the charm: Expert consensus grows on contribution of record high food prices to Middle East unrest I have to say, the “status quo” media does come in handy some times. For example, one day “Scientific American jumps the shark,” and another day they are cited prominently in a…Continue Reading…
The paranoid flip side to Glen Beck is Civilizational Collapse hawker Michael Ruppert, the subject of this creepy 2009 movie. Like Beck, Ruppert has a loyal fanbase who share his dark worldview, which he now propagates on the web through…get ready for it: Collapse Network. Ruppert periodically posts videos on Collapse Network, such as this…Continue Reading…
Even atheists thank god for Stephen Colbert. The hilarious O’Reilly spoof starts at about the 3 minute mark. Colbert can barely keep himself from cracking up. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Crisis in Egypt – Anderson Cooper & Bill O’Reilly www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog Video…Continue Reading…