If we're going to stop the scourge of global warming, sacrifices must be made:
The politics of global warming got very concrete, and oddly difficult, In a meeting with local environmentalists in the coastal town of McClellanville today, where Elizabeth Edwards raised in passing the importance of relying on locally-grown fruit.
This isn't too dishonest, is it?
The picketers marching in a circle in front of a downtown Washington office building chanting about low wages do not seem fully focused on their message.
I imagine my house without me. What would it be like? Well, it would be an empty house, useless and pointless. That's what the Earth without humans would be like, too, useless and pointless. But lots of Earth-first types -- you know, humans are the problem -- are getting their jollies out of Alan Weisman's book "Earth Without Us":
OK, people are turning away from the Old Media to sample new forms of communication. Fine. But do the old media have to keep hurting their own credibility?It turns out you can't even believe The New York Times bestseller list:
No wonder people hate journalists for misquoting them and using them and looking down on them. Here's one of us who says, yeah, we do do that. So What? Get over it.The title -- "It doesn't matter that journalists misquote everyone" -- pretty much says it all:
The reason that everyone thinks journalists misquote them is that the person who is writing is the one who gets to tell the story. No two people tell the same story.
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Is this what passes for a tax revolt in Europe?
Norwegians are among the most heavily taxed people in the world, and that in turn has made Norway one of the most expensive countries in which to live. Most accept the taxes they're ordered to pay on income and even net worth and property, but growing numbers are publicly complaining about sky-high taxes on everything from cars to fuel to consumer goods.
Oh, bite me:
Rugged American individualism could hinder our ability to understand other peoples' point of view, a new study suggests.
And in contrast, the researchers found that Chinese are more skilled at understanding other people's perspectives, possibly because they live in a more "collectivist" society.
Oh! My! God! Report says al-Qaida seeks to attack U.S., the AP is reporting. When did this happen? Why didn't somebody tell us? What are they, terrorists or something?
John Edwards got a lot of grief from conservatives when he said that the "war on terror" was just a slogan rather than a strategy. I wonder what the reaction will be to this, essentially the same argument from someone on the right:
Don Imus redux -- the "rap music made me do it" defense:
The longtime chairman of the Roger Williams University board admitted Monday that he had used the N-word during a board meeting, saying it "kind of slipped out."
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He said he had never used the term before.
