This news reminds me of some of the officer evaluations contained in this oldie-but-goodie of military wisdom. Perhaps the most apposite of the judgments recorded there in describing George Will’s decision to defend the indefensible in his recent error-and-deceit filled fantasy of a column about climate change is this one: “Since my last report, he [...]
Archive for February 2009
John Tierney Update: Eric Roston Rules edition
February 25, 2009An evisceration worthy of its own post, and not just an update on this one. Yesterday, I emailed Eric Roston, author of The Carbon Age and formerly a Time magazine science and tech correspondent, if he could do what I, now 20 years removed from my own climate book, am no longer knowledge-nimble enough to [...]
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February 25, 2009See this. Thanks for all the fish. (PS: Roy Blount Jr. is onto us.) Image: Page 13 of the Codex Borbonicus. Fifteenth or sixteenth century.
Why is George Will?
February 25, 2009I get these obsessions, you know. Someone persists in trainwrecking right in front of me, saying teh stoopid without ceasing, and I can’t turn away. Will’s getting lumps long overdue for his climate change follies; I think some people are starting to notice that a bow tie, complex sentence structure, and a big vocabulary are [...]
Quicky Alert on John Tierney’s latest outrage.
February 24, 2009I’m tired; I’m stuck with parts of my day job that I really wish I didn’t have to do; and I have a finite capacity for going over the same tired ground again. All of which is why I can’t get into the full swing of what must needs be done: ripping John Tierney for [...]
George Will Jumps the Shark (Again): He Hearts Him Some Civil War Edition
February 24, 2009I note with resigned amusement that George Will’s call for a return to state legislature-elected senators includes this bit of argument: The Framers established election of senators by state legislators, under which system the nation got the Great Triumvirate (Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John Calhoun) and thrived. (Links added — Will is not so [...]
Friday (Isaac) Newton blogging: Monday/Newton+Darwin Edition
February 23, 2009Cross posted at So Simple A Beginning. Up to now, we’ve been talking around the edges of what Darwin said to ease his readership into his ideas. Now it’s time to dig into the meat of the introduction to The Origin. (Past time, given the week or more that has passed since the epochal birthday [...]
Metaphors that make you go hmmmm.
February 22, 2009From SFGate.com’s piece on new Oakland A’s reliever Russell Springer: “It’s been like that in every bullpen Russell has been in. He’s like the Jell-O between the fruit.” This is not a happy mental image. That is all. Image: Erich Ginder serving moulded jello shots at opening of his gallery show. Photograph by Joe Mabel, [...]
Typical Sunday Post Brunch Brain Bubbles: Bad Einstein Joke edition
February 22, 2009From my brother, after a dim sum overdose: If Einstein were to speculate on the behavior of a donut in free fall in one’s mug of coffee, would it be a gedunkenexperiment? My apologies to all. Image: Ivana Kobilca (1861-1926): Kofetarica (Coffee drinker) 1888.
What Intelligent Design?: Latest Evidence For the Death (or Rage) of God
February 22, 2009Because no benevolent deity would permit Glenn Beck. h/t Josh Image: Leda and the Swan, a 16th century copy after a lost painting by Michelangelo, 1530.
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