Last October Senators John Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) sent a letter to the Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil. The Senators wanted to browbeat him for the crime of funding research at odds with the officially approved theories of global warming. The text of the letter is available here; a Wall Street Journal analysis [...]
Posted on March 19th, 2007 by pwyll
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I got tired of looking at those annoying Snap previews. Here are a couple of ways to eliminate them.
If you use Firefox and the Adblock Plus extension then add the following filter rule
spa.snap.com/snap_preview_anywhere.js
That worked beautifully for me.
If you don’t use Firefox and Adblock, but are on Windows, you can do this.
1) In Windows [...]
Posted on March 18th, 2007 by pwyll
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THEY cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of global warming.
Oops, wrong picture. Let’s try that again.
THEY cling precariously to the top of what is left of the ice floe, their fragile grip the perfect symbol of the tragedy of [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2007 by pwyll
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Harvard astrophysicist Sallie Baliunas recalls the medieval use of the precautionary principle to fend off climate change.
Posted on March 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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What goes around, comes around. Code Pink protesters are camped around Nancy Pelosi’s home in San Francisco, demanding that she bring the troops home. Fred Thompson observes that the
… protesters have brought along a giant paper mache statue of Mahatma Gandhi, who is pretty much the symbol of the anti-war movement. Code Pink was founded [...]
Posted on March 15th, 2007 by pwyll
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The marriage of politics and entertainment was a bad idea. Even worse is the marriage of law enforcement and entertainment. Here’s the premise of the show: invite third-rate has-been entertainers to ride along with your swat team.
MUNCIE — The city’s SWAT team, along with celebrity cops and camera crews from Armed & Famous, broke into [...]
Posted on March 13th, 2007 by pwyll
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