Assault on Reason

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• An Inconvenient Bedtime Story

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  “Why did they do all this, daddy?” “To stop global warming, honey”: [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] (H/T: Theo Spark ; related thoughts here .)
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• Al Gore And The Original Assault On Reason

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Dubbing Al Gore “The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man”, Newsweek has yet another of its unintentionally ironic headlines.  (At least we think the irony is unintentional, although Conquest’s Third Law is always a potential factor.) And while we won’t say a word about the inherent sexism in the headline ...
  3 days ago

• WWF: Gotta Exploit Someone

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Rush Limbaugh: “World Wildlife Fund Exploits Children in Propaganda Video.” Hey, it’s progress of a sort: at least they’re not exploiting 9/11 this time around. For a look at another ad that exploits kids ...
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• Tom Brokaw: East Germany Better Off Red?

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  “Brokaw: Liberated East Germans ‘Still Adjusting to Harsh Economic Realities’ of Capitalism.’” Like four dollar gasoline ? Many more legacy reporters who drop the mask on their inner Marxist here .
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• You Stay Classy, Ted

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  A couple of years ago, I wrote : Back around 1988, I watched Ted Danson, then at the height of his fame as the star of Cheers appear on a late-night infomercial pitch for an environmental group. He ended the half-hour advertisement with his saying that “we only have ten years to save the world’s oceans”. ...
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• Nation-Building Flows From The Barrel Of A Gun

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Yesterday, I linked to Frank Rich’s column titled, “The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York,” and noted : But a paradox emerges: does Rich consider “Stalinist” a good or a bad thing? From Duranty copping a Pulitzer by shilling for Uncle Joe himself, to Pinch Sulzberger backing the NVA because ...
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• Boston Bartender Tells Tall Tales

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Now on deck, along with his environmental “Mini-Me” at bat? Sam “Mayday” Malone ! Actor Ted Danson called Thursday for tough limits on subsidies that are promoting overfishing around the globe. In an interview with The Associated Press, the actor said the World Trade Organization needed to address ...
  2 weeks ago

• We’re Gonna Turn it On, We’re Gonna Bring You The Power!

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  James Lileks continues his Halloween-week exploration of the original Universal Frankenstein movies of the 1930s, with Son of Frankenstein , including this passage: The obligatory animation sequence isn’t as dramatic as the others; no one’s hoisted through a hole in the roof, interrogated by lightning. But ...
  2 weeks ago

• Freak Out In A SuperFreakonomic Moon-Age Daydream!

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Back in May, after a nonplussed Associated Press calmly reported the wacky ideas to fight global warming/cooling/climate change/whatever it’s called this week from John Holdren, President Obama’s resident mad scientist , I did a Silicon Graffiti highlighting some of his loonier visions . But as Bret Stephens ...
  2 weeks ago

• All This And World War II

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Found via Jonah Goldberg on the Corner, “ Heil Heidegger!” quips Carlin Romano in the Chronicle of Higher Education: How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some as Germany’s greatest 20th-century philosopher, reaches his final resting ...
  2 weeks ago

• First They Came For George Steinbrenner…

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  At National Review, Jay Nordlinger has been writing quite a bit recently about politics-free “safe zones” in pop culture — and the lack thereof: Another pet theme, or pet peeve, of mine has to do with “safe zones” — my recent term for zones free of partisan politics. (These might include concerts, ...
  3 weeks ago

• “News From the Energy-Efficient Red Light District”

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Jonah Goldberg spots German hookers “giving discounts for carbon offsets” : One [Berlin] bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door. “It’s very difficult to find parking around here, and this option is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Mid-October Snow Shocks Tri-Staters

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  “Parts North And West Of NYC Hit With Pre-Halloween Surprise; Some Spots Could See As Much As 4 Inches.” I blame Leonard Nimoy .
  4 weeks ago

• Running Hot And Cold

  
  Ed Driscoll — Authority: 150
  Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters spots a Stanford University’s global warming alarmist whose career has covered all the bases : Stanford University’s noted global warming alarmist and Al Gore advisor Stephen Schneider appeared in a 1978 television program warning Americans of a coming Ice Age. For those that ...
  4 weeks ago

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