Tuesday Links
* There’s very high turnout in Wisconsin today. Probably good news, but who can say.
* Nick Mamatas says to understand libertarians, we should forget Ayn Rand and read Robert Heinlein.
* The last time CNN polled party approval, the GOP had 44% approval, 43 disapproval. In today’s poll the picture is slightly different: 33% approval, 59% disapproval. This is worse than their numbers during Clinton’s impeachment. So at least Americans have noticed what’s going on.
* Of course, two years later Republicans (kind of) won the presidency anyway. And it could easily happen again.
* A liberal is just a conservative who’s given birth: Fox’s Megyn Kelly comes out in favor of maternity leave. A little sad that this is noteworthy, but there you are.
* Chart of the day: Women Have to have a Ph.D. to Make as Much as Men with B.A.s.
* Life here began out there? NASA Proves Building Blocks Of DNA Come From Space. Naturally, the actual text of the story is a lot less definitive than the headline.
* In Wire news: Felicia “Snoop” Pearson has pled out, and will avoid jailtime if she doesn’t violate a three-year probation.
The model they’re using in that effort was transported whole cloth into the climate debate. And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: “This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.” Bullshit! “It may be sun spots.” Bullshit! “It’s not getting warmer.” Bullshit!
* Meanwhile, Fox News Responds To Record Heat Waves By Predicting Global Cooling. Over to you, Al…
Written by gerrycanavan
August 9, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Posted in Look at what I found on the Internet
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