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July 27, 2006

Colbert Reams "Today Show" and "Good Morning America"

I missed two episodes of The Colbert Report this week. My mistake. I'd heard about this, but thankfully Crooks And Liars have posted the video (saving me the iTunes cost).

Just watch this video.

Posted by MJuhre at 02:48 PM | Comments (0)

The War on Science: Researcher Tells Right Wing to Stop Misusing Study

"I would like to remove my name from the list of scientists who dispute global warming," writes Peter Doran in today's New York Times. The associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago has an Op Ed piece telling right-wing, anti-science nuts to stop misusing his research and is name to support their incorrect assertion that the evidence of global warming is "bad science."

Doran's words are a welcome defensive salvo against the War on Science.

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"...[M]any news and opinion writers linked our study with another bit of polar research published that month... and erroneously concluded that the earth was not warming at all. 'Scientific findings run counter to theory of global warming,' said a headline on an editorial in The San Diego Union-Tribune...

...Our results have been misused as 'evidence' against global warming by Michael Crichton in his novel 'State of Fear' and by Ann Coulter in her latest book, 'Godless: The Church of Liberalism.' ...One recent Web column even put words in my mouth. I have never said that 'the unexpected colder climate in Antarctica may possibly be signaling a lessening of the current global warming cycle.' I have never thought such a thing either."

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I have but one criticism. Doran waits until paragraph four to get to the point -- that his studies DO NOT refute global warming -- and instead opens with the background of his research. Personally, I would have led with the “stop misusing my research” angle and then given the background on the facts, if only because many readers skimming the paper might never make it to paragraph four before moving on and might come away with some vague notion about Antarctica being “warmer or cooler than it used to be” or something. But kudos, nonetheless.

Posted by MJuhre at 01:42 PM | Comments (0)

July 26, 2006

Punk Obituary

There have been few blog entries of late I know.

While there's really no reason why you should care, I'll tell you anyway. I've been spending a lot of my free time time moving my vinyl collection to iTunes. Some of that work is available at at http://punkobituary.blogspot.com.

Posted by MJuhre at 02:11 PM | Comments (0)

July 22, 2006

Garth Brooks Wants the Other Half of Your Sandwich

This is a reader's submission. Good timing, since I haven't dedicated much time to this site lately.

My journalist training led be to believe that, since this piece pertains to something that was newsworthy more thann 10 years ago, it belongs on the inside pages of the main site rather than here on the blog. Don't ask. Just go to the article.

Posted by MJuhre at 05:19 PM | Comments (0)

July 21, 2006

Charles Barkley: “I Was a Republican Until They Lost Their Minds”

Does Barkley's rejection of the GOP suggest an overall turn of the tide in America? We can only hope.

Posted by MJuhre at 02:09 PM | Comments (0)

July 11, 2006

Hasselhoff Rocks his Asshole Off

Ein Mann. Ein Auto. Ein Komputer...

Brett submitted this link to David Hasselhoff's latest video. Not to be missed (make sure you have time to watch it all the way through to the end).

I promise you, we did not doctor these images from the video in any way.

Posted by MJuhre at 10:40 AM | Comments (0)

July 06, 2006

I Want To See Ken Lay's Dead Body

It's been awhile -- I know. I've been off getting married and what not.

Y'know, for once I actually agree with the New York Post. Ken Lay surely had life insurance and, in this day and age, I don't know if I can believe he's dead until I see someone parades the photos of his body to the world, a la Abu Musab Al Zarqawi or Uday and Qusay Hussein.

"Lay’s death may save his family from ruin" - Financial Express

Posted by MJuhre at 05:21 PM | Comments (0)