Archive for January 2010

The CIA Has Joined the Vast Climate Change Conspiracy.

January 5, 2010

Read this article in the New York Times.* Here’s the gist of what it’s talking about in this effort to piggy back on national technical intelligence gathering tools (satellites, remote sensing, etc.): The nation’s top scientists and spies are collaborating on an effort to use the federal government’s intelligence assets — including spy satellites and [...]

Because I am either kind or cruel: something to tide you over till the next tome is done

January 4, 2010

This seemed like a good way to start what promises to be a long strange year: (h/t a Balloon Juice comment I’ve now since lost to the surf.  My apologies) And just in case that’s not absurd enough for you, let’s channel Hunter [Thompson] and admit that when the going gets weird, the weird turn [...]

My Brother is an Evil Man: Canine Abuse Decadal Survey/John Cole Can’t Have All the Fun Dept.

January 1, 2010

I swear I had nothing to do with Tess’s humiliation below: Proper blogging — snorts of derision in David Brooks’ direction is up next — to resume ASAP. In the meantime:  Top of the year to everyone.  I hope that 2010 is for all who tarry here a happy, healthy, and creatively effervescent twelvemonth. And [...]


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