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Where's the Heat?
Published on 2008-03-19 22:28:00
Insanity has, I think, been best defined as doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results. Who gets the credit for being the first to say it is, I suppose, a debate for a different day, but I think it bears repeating here. The debate may be over as the global warming community loves to say, but the data stubbornly refuses to live up to the hype:· Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments sugges
Glenn Greenwald's Crazy Logic
Published on 2008-03-10 21:34:00
Glenn Greenwald chimes in today regarding the Eliot Spitzer prostituion scandal:Regarding all of the breathless moralizing from all sides over the "reprehensible," outrageous crimes of Eliot Spitzer:are there actually many people left who care if an adult who isn'ttheir spouse hires prostitutes? Are there really people left who thinkthat doing so should be a crime, that adults who hire other consentingadults for sex should be convicted and go to prison?Just as was true for moral crusaders David
Math Problem?
Published on 2008-03-06 22:46:00
Jonathan Alter in Newsweek today (via Memeorandum):Hillary Clinton won big victories Tuesday night in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. But she's now even further behind in the race for the Democratic nomination. How could that be? Math. It's relentless.To beat Barack Obama among pledged delegates, Clinton now needs even bigger margins in the 12 remaining primaries than she needed when I ran the numbers on Monday—an average of 23 points, which is more than double what she received in Ohio.Superdel
