Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Was it hard data?
Was it the everyday cooling trend that greeted us, face to face, throughout the seasons in ’08? Did it just become too difficult to believe in “an overall trend of increasing temperatures worldwide,” while chipping away at ice on your car’s windshield, on calendar dates previously unknown to require such an activity in years past?
Was it getting hit in the pocketbook? We lost our interest in living-less-life when our empty wallets made it compulsory for us to do so? Kind of like the first snow of the season looks so wonderful, and after you’ve been shoveling that white shit out of your driveway for a few weeks you don’t want to see it anymore?
Maybe it was the gradual realization, that a “movement” was all it ever was. A political movement. It always did behave more like something political than something scientific, after all…with that whole “The Debate Is Over” thing.
Or am I mistaken in my perception that it is “so 2007” and it’s still all the smarties that “know” it’s the Real Deal and only the knuckle-dragging rubes like me who are skeptical of it?
I’m just about ready to cross off the last of those five. There is, in ’09, something a bit pet-rock-ish about it all.
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The Weather Channel is still drinking the Kool-Aid. All last week they ran this lil blurb showing the number of record highs in 2008 vs. the number of record lows… and the highs outnumbered the lows by a margin of something like 2:1. Thus, Global Warming, aka Climate Change, aka Gore Syndrome, is proven. By their logic, anyhoo. I guess that was their point.
I really need a rubber brick to throw at my teevee for times like the above. But no one bought me one for Christmas, dang it.
- Buck | 01/05/2009 @ 13:58I figure, you can’t expect anything else from TWC, especially now that they’re a corporate sister to MSNBC.
- CGHill | 01/05/2009 @ 21:49I’m guessing this is like Jason from “Friday the 13th”. It ain’t gonna die any natural death. Too many reputations public and private are running on it.
- Tom The Impaler | 01/06/2009 @ 02:08Yeah, I think you got it. There’s a certain momentum involved in the public sentiment, like they could stop winning converts to the cause right this very instant, and…maybe they’ve built up enough steam to get those policies rammed through, maybe they haven’t. Too late to wonder about it, all they can do is try. Bad news is: It might work, even if nobody believes in it anymore.
- mkfreeberg | 01/06/2009 @ 10:33The cold temperatures may have dampened the Global Warming push. Or, perhaps now that it cannot be used to bludgeon a Republican president, it’s not in style anymore. Plus, with the economy tanking, (supposedly), the people screaming about it have become a luxury we cannot afford. We listen (defined as: the MSM decide it’s a page-one topic) during the good times, ignore when we’re busy keeping our heads above water, economy-wise.
- wch | 01/06/2009 @ 14:40Hmmmm…tough call.
I’d say somewhere between the awarding of a Nobel prize, and T. Boone Pickens
producing infomercials, a la political campaign infomercials, announcing
his PERSONAL involvement in the NEED to support his 10% stake in the windmill
industry for our children’s future.
The great Pelosi “How many CFLs does it take to change the Legislature?” event
- CaptDMO | 01/06/2009 @ 18:49was bell wether, THIS time, for me.