Legal humor here. All cartoons here. “Let it be said that the battle against global warming began today at 9 AM in this very room.” “Do I despise them? No. Do I think them capable of far more than they are giving? Yes.” “Some day they will be free as we are free. But not…
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Can Henry M. Paulson, Jr. predict the future?
Several weeks ago,1 former Wall Street big shot and Treasury Sec Henry Paulson held forth on the urgent need for action on climate change, predicting “a future with more severe storms, deeper droughts, longer fire seasons and rising seas that imperil coastal cities” if we, and the rest of the world, fail to take dramatic…
Obama bad, Republicans good!
Yes, I am trying to drive traffic these days. Why do you ask? I can’t help beating up on the president, thanks to his new proclamation on “carbon pollution”—that is to say, pollution that is not pollution—because the new regs the president is pushing are intended to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide, which does…
Judith Shulevitz, so not a scientist
Judith Shulevitz, crackerjack gal o’ many opinions at the New Republic, has a piece in the print version of the Oct. 21issue (which I’ll link to as soon as it’s online) deploring the failure of the recent “36-page summary of a report about to come out from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” to…
Data Manipulation 101: Matt Yglesias Edition
I agree with Matt Yglesias about 60% of the time, which, for me, is pretty high. But Matt, like so many liberals, is particularly hot on the issue of global warming, which is one place where we part company. In a recent post, “Natural Resource Scarcity Is a Real Thing,” Matt posts the following graph…
How many stupid foreign policy advisors does President Obama have? One less than he used to
Foreign Policy is a pretty serious magazine, right? No Best Bikini Bods need apply. And a job title like “Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy” sounds pretty intense. So why does a recent article in Foreign Policy by Rosa Brooks, former Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy at the…
Yeah, that’s the problem. What’s the solution?
A couple of days ago I ran a brief riff on It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, a brief book by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein whose basic premise is that right-wing Republicans are fucking up America, a premise with which I largely agree. As is so often the case, Mann and Ornstein are stronger…
Obama to Netanyahu: Don’t attack Iran! Let me do it for you!
Yes, that’s the plan of our president, Barack “The Republicans can’t paint me in a corner if I do it first!” Obama, promising that he can harass, and bully, and humiliate a nation of 70 million people into doing exactly what he wants them to do, shutting his eyes to the fact that he will…
So not the New Yorker
For official humor, go here. “You don’t need a helmet. You’ve got a halo. That takes care of everything.” “Yeah, I was expecting an English racer too.” “Welcome to Hell, dude. Yeah, that’s right, Hell. You didn’t believe in global warming either, did you? Here’s how it’s going to be, for all eternity: only one…
Lost in the Ozone
Poor President Obama! When he murders innocent kids in Central Asia, I attack him. When he cancels overly restrictive regulations of ozone and promotes a pipeline to bring Canadian oil to the U.S. to fuel our economy, Ralph Nader attacks him. Yes, Ralph Nader, the guy who gave us Dub-Ya, is still talking, still bitching,…