LASlimes has declared Anthropomorphic Global Warming as unassailable science. In a stunning move that some scientists are decrying as blatant censorship, The Los Angeles Times is no longer publishing letters from those who deny climate change. “Simply put, I do my best to keep errors of fact off the letters page; when one does run, a correction is published,” writes Times letters editor Paul Thornton. “Saying ‘there’s no sign humans
October 19, 2013
Los Angeles Times makes it official — “Mainstream” Media decides what the hoi polloi are allowed to know [Darleen Click]
October 19, 2013
“Core assumptions of “win elections, then repeal” require the suspension of disbelief.” [Darleen Click]
Andrew McCarthy speaks Truth to [GOP Establishment] Power … It is repeatedly said that the crusade to defund Obamacare was delusional, that it never had a chance. That is an overstatement. Hail Mary passes are tried because they occasionally work. A lot of things have to go right, and the success rate is low. But a Hail Mary is a ray of hope when the clock nears zero, when something
October 19, 2013
Clarifying: protein wisdom takes on a lecturing political “realist”
In response to my post yesterday on the status quo faux conservatism of Ann Coulter, I received the following comment from a drive-by neostatist troll calling himself gcm2: “It only surprises people like the morons at the Daily Beast who, even after you pushed the most moderate, liberal candidates you could find as the very essence of conservatism, still think the TEA Partiers give a good shit what you have
October 18, 2013
“Jesus” is the new swastika [Darleen Click]”
“If it can happen in a small country town like this, it makes you wonder what’s happening in other parts of the nation.” For all those people who pooh-poohed the idea that the government would ever go after religious symbols on grave markers Linda Baker lost her battle with cancer last week. She was the wife of Mark Baker, the pastor of Harvest Baptist Church in Ovid. Adams said her
October 18, 2013
“Scientists suggest beer after a workout”
That’s the good news. The bad news is, they were likely shitfaced when they came up with the data, and on a Leaving Las Vegas, cirrhosis-crazed bender when they finally got around to publishing it. Not that such revelations should deter you from following their advice. I mean, global climate change, right? So you see? There’s precedence for blind faith!
October 18, 2013
And it looks as though you lived your life like a finger in the wind
I’m sorry: but when you’ve pushed Chris Christie, or written to praise Mitt Romney’s conservatism and electability, you pretty much lose any credibility with those of us who still believe in representative government. So it’s probably best not to try to pass yourself off as anything other than an establishment-humping book hawker. Because we aren’t buying it. Just as we aren’t buying your books any longer. So does it surprise
October 18, 2013
Obama’s post-debt limit deal speech, distilled
“Stop listening to the evil assholes who, with their voices or their pens or their computers or their activism, continue to fight my attempt to fundamentally transform this wretched capitalistic country. That flawed document you crackers all fetishize, the Constitution, and the rich white slave owners who drafted the ridiculous and largely obstructionist thing, would want you to do just that: shut up and let the professional political class manage
October 18, 2013
“Yale Professor ‘Embarrassed’ to Discover Tea Party Members are Scientifically Literate”
And why is he “embarrassed”? Because it turns out he’d formed his beliefs about the acumen of those who identify as TEA Partiers — he had expected them to be slightly dumb and not terribly scientifically inclined (and I’d add, probably RACIST!) — from reading the New York Times, or Politico, or the Huffington Post. Which, that’s not terribly scientific now, is it? To his credit, however, the professor, Dan