Month: October 2007
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Wiley Miller on think tanks
I’m loving the Non Sequiturs about Danae setting up her think tank. I think Wiley must be reading the blog. Stop lurking and show yourself!
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Fire Blackwater
Have people seen the coverage of these Blackwater hearings? The police officer, whom CNN is identifying only as Sarhan, said the Blackwater guards “seemed nervous” as they entered the square, throwing water bottles at the Iraqi police posted there and driving in the wrong direction. He said traffic police halted civilian traffic to clear the…
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Sheril takes apart the latest environmental scaremongering nonsense
I too gagged when I saw this nonsense story from the Center for American Progress listing 100 things we’ll lose with global warming. Sheril takes it apart for us, and I’m thankful.
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A cartoon summary of the Denialist Deck of Cards
PZ has found this wonderful cartoon that I think sums up the problem nicely. Danae should go to work for AEI or Cato!
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The DI has discovered Ioannidis too!
I realize it’s fundamental to being a crank, but the persecution complex of the IDers is getting really old. The latest is Bruce Chapman at Evolution News and Views, who no longer satisfied with grasping at the mantle of Galileo, is now groping for Semmelweis and Lister as well. The idea being, as usual, if…
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Speaking of making stuff up
Next for “making up disease” files, Ed Brayton brings us news of the latest crank idea from the masturbation-obsessed nuts over at World Nut Daily. It’s the new plague of masturbation-induced impotence. Pornographically Induced Impotence is now a national pandemic, raking in untold billions for pornographers and their satellite businesses as well as from the…
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Can You Really Strangle Yourself Getting out of Handcuffs?
I thought for sure the idiotic slugs that pass for security in our airports had mishandled this woman resulting in her death when they said she strangled herself while trying to escape from handcuffs. However, Slate reports indeed you can manage to screw up this maneuver and contort yourself into such a position. They also…
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Preying on the fears of pregnant women
Here’s some woo for you. Via Gizmodo we hear about this wonderful new waste of money, Mummywraps. Designed to protect your baby from “electro-smog”, the non-existent threat of electromagnetic waves from radio and cell phone sources (that we have been exposed to constantly for decades with no discernible effect), these copper “Swiss Shield” garments will…
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Only 250 Comments Away
I’d just comment like nuts if I were eligible for the 500,000th comment contest. Call this an open thread. Go nuts! I’m too busy writing to blog anyway.
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WSJ on Billboard Advertising Battles
The Journal’s Cynthia Crossen gives an overview of political battles surrounding billboard advertising today. An interesting read, in part because billboard advertising lobbyists have been pretty shameless in their political advocacy. I remember that when I lived in Georgia, they wanted to lop off the tops of trees so that billboards could be better seen.…