In Which I Finally Make The Big Time!

by WarrenS

So back on November 12, I wrote my daily letter to the Newark Star-Ledger, pointing out Chris Christie's utter idiocy when it came to the science of climate change.

Asked by a man attending the event whether he thought mankind was responsible for global warming, Christie says he's seen evidence on both sides of the argument but thinks it hasn't been proven one way or another.

Christie says "more science" is needed to convince him.

What a Moran.

I figured I'd offer him a list of resources, and sent the following:

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To Subscribe or Not: That is the question

by A Siegel

Like composting, newspaper reading was something absorbed while is in the womb.  For much of my childhood, the Siegel clan had a morning and afternoon paper along with several local weeklies and national magazines. (Yes, college marketing matters: pa Siegel is still subscribing to Newsweek, come hell and high water, more than 50 years after that first cheap college subscription.)

Thus, the idea of life without a dead-tree edition with the morning coffee is a step yet to be taken despite the richness of the blogosphere and the CO2/environmental/watts of energy implications of tons lbs of paper delivered to the door.  While we are approaching the time where some form of flexible web reader might make the dead-tree edition truly superfluous, for the moment my Siegel clan gets its hands dirty with the paper in the morning. And, for the moment, this is The Washington Post ... but should it be is a question that we discuss.

Follow after the fold for discussion of how a bad NY Times column promoting climate denial and dissing the blogosphere tips the scales for The Post ... for this week, at least.

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Front Page Quotes Village Truthiness ... need to look behind the curtain

by A Siegel

On the front page, Kagro X (David Waldman) quotes from a Washington Post article about how the oil in the Gulf isn't shifting public opinion on energy issueslike environmentalists desire.

Not surprisingly, the article is rather mediocre in a balanced journalism sort-of way: legitimate and interesting material is balanced with mediocrity and truthiness.  

To be clear, David's key point is one that I agree with:

File this for use the next time somebody tells you that the key to getting people fired up in this country is letting things go to hell so they can see for themselves how bad things have gotten.

E.g., simply saying 'let things go to hell' and people will wake up and magically become progressives as about as reality based as planning on the Washington Nationals making it to the World Series this year ...

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