Opinion / General Interest

Facing The Music And Dancing

Time for Climate Warmists to shape up? Jones said he might submit a correction to Nature. But he nonetheless attacked bloggers and other critics for “hijacking the peer-review process… Why don’t they do their own [temperature] reconstructions? If they want to criticise, they should write their own papers,” he said. […]

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Total Failure

An attempt by an unkoolass to make Sarah Palin look … plain? Talk about missing the target. Ann Althouse: I can list many other politicians — female and male, Republican and Democrat — who have won favor in the hearts of the people through their looks. One of them is sitting […]

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A Nice But

More on academic Amy Bishop who ‘allegedly’ starting firing at her colleagues in a faculty meeting at the University of Alabama, killing three: A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children – the youngest a third-grade boy – was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President […]

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BBRU 260

Is hosted by Is there more to life than shoes? (We are never told.) A link to a nice piece by Natalie Bennett about her Grandmother’s thrift and good nature. And some good – but maybe fake – advice to young ladies from the Heresiarch.

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Islamist Extremism Gets Just Too Extreme?

Via Drudge, this piece at Big Journalism which claims that the evil excesses of certain Islamist fanatics known as the Af/Pak Haqqani terror network have prompted a violent backlash against them: As Siraj Haqqani moved from village to village, rounding up the sons of poor Muslim families to fight for […]

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The Trilemma

Via the Browser, this heavyweight piece by Yves Smith at naked capitalism which looks at the issues swirling around the parlous position of Greece within the Eurozone and the wider implications. Including this bold thought by Dani Rodrik: I have an “impossibility theorem” for the global economy that is like that. It […]

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BBRU 258

Is up and running at Suz Blog. Good link to Love and Liberty’s post: New Labour’s 4,289 New Laws – Yet Blair Walks Free And a wail for national liberation from Nourishing Obscurity.

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The Great Question

Is this. Do you want to use about a minute of your fleeting, oh-so-precious time left on Earth to watch a ridiculous cartoon of a vigorously dancing pair of buttocks? Yes. You. Do. So, what are you waiting for?  

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Existential Questions For US Democrats

If you think that your canoe is in a current heading swiftly towards a steep and dangerous waterfall, which is best? To shrug, accept the inevitable and paddle all the faster, hoping to survive your crazy dive into the Unknown? To change course and paddle furiously towards calm waters to look for a […]

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Hillary Clinton And Amazon Space

Some of you may have read my paper on the idea of Amazon Space. If not, please do so. The simple idea is that in a world divided between large areas of lawfulness and diminishing but significant spaces defined by their unlawfulness, new doctrines are needed for protecting the networks […]

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