I’m at a conference in Atlanta this week (love your city, Atlantans!) so this’ll probably be my only post today, and a week-late one at that. But I couldn’t pass this one up. My favorite Glenn Beckism yet didn’t get nearly as much attention last week as I thought it should have (it got drowned out by the Sotomayor nomination). But you should see this, because this time, Glenn really brought the funny: The Empathy of Solomon For those who don’t want to sit through the trainwreck that is Fox and Friends, Glenn asked rhetorically, and I quote, “Was Solomon … Continue reading Someone Bring Me A Sword

You people call yourself scientists? The Smithsonian Institution toned down an exhibit on climate change in the Arctic for fear of angering Congress and the Bush administration, says a former administrator at the museum. Among other things, the script, or official text, of last year’s exhibit was rewritten to minimize and inject more uncertainty into the relationship between global warming and humans, said Robert Sullivan, who was associate director in charge of exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Also, officials omitted scientists’ interpretation of some research and let visitors draw their own conclusions from the data, he … Continue reading Self-Censorship

I’m back. After a week of rubbing elbows the Have-Mores in Vail, careening down the slopes in blissful ignorance of the events of the world outside the high country I suppose it’s time to get up to speed on the issues I once thought were important. What did I miss? The world’s most desiccated racist is now temporarily unemployed. I bet most of you out there in blogland wish you had missed that episode as well. The surge is still surging, Big Time Dick is still playing the Terra Card despite the fact that our only ally is dumping the … Continue reading What Did I Miss? Not Much, Apparently

Yet another Pew poll shows that the Internets are booming as a news source for the well-informed. Just after the midterm elections in the fall of 2006, the Pew Internet & American Life Project polled Americans about their political news sources. We asked people if they were getting most of their election news from the television, newspapers, radio, magazines, or the internet. As ever, television was the walk-away favorite. Over two-thirds of respondents (69%) said they got most of their political news from television; about a third (34%) said newspapers, and 15% said the internet.1 But the underdog internet is … Continue reading Boomin’