Armed black citizens escort Michigan lawmaker to capitol after volatile rightwing protest

Why you need to wear the damn mask  Because we say so, dammit. And we’re in charge.

Technofascism: Digital Book-Burning In A Totalitarian Age

China Daily Censors Opinion Article Written By EU Officials; Removes Any Mention Of China As Virus Origin

WaPo: Swedes Are Too Nationalistic

Oregon Bans Fans At Sporting Events Through At Least September

San Francisco DA Says His Father, Convicted Murderer And Former Member Of Terrorist Group, Should Get Out Of Prison

Alphabet pulls plug on ‘smart city’ concept

GOP Lawmaker Joins Local Businesses In Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania Governor‘s State Shutdown

Transcripts Prove Adam Schiff Lied; More Releases Expected From DNI Grenell

Democratic senators propose $2,000 monthly payments to most Americans – POLITICO  We desperately need to make all Americans dependent on the government.

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Censor Controversial Documentary  The Ministry of Truth has been outsourced.

Linda Hirschman: Yes, Biden Is A Rapist But He Should Be The Next President  Those who had no problem swallowing Bill Clinton ought to have no problem swallowing Joe Biden.

TV Channels Declare Gay Characters ‘Overly Necessary’

A breathtakingly superficial attempt to tie coronavirus deaths to populism

“It’s Like Pre-Crime” – California County Launches Snatch-And-Grab COVID Spy Program

Left-Wing Org Touts Letter Calling on Big Tech to ‘Detox’ Algorithms to Fight ‘Misinformation’

3,000 California Churches Plan To Reopen In Defiance Of Gov. Newsom’s Orders

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Over the last few weeks, we have been keeping a close eye on the growing glut of automobile inventory, exacerbated by demand falling off a cliff, plunging used car prices and rental car companies suffering from an unprecedented collapse in business (or, like Hertz, simply going bankrupt). To wit, just hours ago, we documented how declining fleet sales was having a profoundly negative impact on automakers. Previously, we pointed out how a crash in used car prices could be putting significant pressure on the rental car industry. And most notably, several days ago we also wrote that automakers were having so much trouble finding space for their unsellable inventory that ships bearing auto cargo from overseas were denied entry at US ports and sent back out into the ocean.

Victor Davis Hanson.

Science without humility is a parlor game that can turn lethal.

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The Supreme Court justices voided an earlier decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which had ruled that a federal anti-harboring statute was unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the First Amendment by restricting free speech. The ruling by the nation’s highest court Thursday upholds the law.

The Supreme Court not only vacated the appeals court’s decision, but also criticized the judges for “drastically” straying from judicial norms.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

With thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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That’s because ‘capitalism’ (and God knows how they define it) would allow someone from the laboring classes to attain the wealth that they have. It’s all about who’s on top.

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I guess that’s the new name for the rule of law. Good to know.

Tithing.

Sing along.

Killing of top rebel commander by Indian forces in Kashmir triggers wave of protests

Taliban Attacks Increased During Peace Talks With US

Morale: Pay For Slay Economics

US Journalist Daniel Pearl’s Parents Challenge Freeing of His Islamist Killers

Culture-Enrichers Ignore Lockdown in Turin

Supposed Muslim LGBT “Allies” Silent as Muslim Attacks on Gays Increase

‘Dirty’ Christians In Pakistan Forced To Clean Filthy Sewers Bare Handed

Those Rascally Swedish “Youths”

The Muslim Brotherhood Penetrates the Swedish Defense Forces

Hizballah and Iran Rage Against Germany’s Ban

Turkey Has Recruited 11,000 Mostly Syrian Mercenaries To Fight In Libya: Report

Terrorist Challenges New UK Anti-Terrorism Law

Christians Must Die!

Steve Sailer likes to Notice.

From the New York Times “Parenting” page, yet another Asian-American woman writer with a white husband brags complains about how her daughter looks white and that concerns her in an increasingly racist anti-white America a viciously white racist America where her daughter will be discriminated against get to discriminate against PoCs.

I suppose it would be tacky of me at this point to Notice that Malia Obama’s boyfriend is white, thereby guaranteeing that her children will pass the Paper Bag And Ruler test and qualify for Jack & Jill.

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The New York Times’ 1619 Project has been hammered so effectively by scholars that to keep attacking it may seem like piling on. However, the Times has just been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for its drive-by attack on America. Thus, I think another wave of criticism is justified.

The Pulitzer, like the Nobel Prize, has degenerated into just another pat on the back that one set of Crustian proglodytes give to another of the same class.

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Coronavirus patients declared recovered who later test positive for the disease are still expelling dead lung cells rather than getting a new infection, the World Health Organisation (WHO) told AFP on Wednesday.

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Moral: Don’t try to tell your riders what to do unless it’s related to the performance of the bus.

The Lamestream Media delight in these stories, which they think display poor behavior on the part of ordinary citizens. What they actually display is the sort of petty tyranny in which bottom-tier government employees often indulge themselves when they conceive themselves to be in a position of authority, however shallow or temporary. Americans are happy to suck it up and cooperate in the face of an actual emergency; what they aren’t good at is allowing themselves to be hectored by functionaries who are just being bossy for the sake of being bossy.

‘View’ co-hosts blast Kayleigh McEnany, claim she ‘already broke’ promise not to lie

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there were 15 flavors of Spam.

I certainly didn’t.

CNN attack on ABC anchor David Muir’s Trump interview draws criticism: ‘What CNN wants is partisanship’

ABC News’s David Muir is no match for Trump’s falsehoods  Washington Post.

Here’s the real reason Donald Trump didn’t wear a mask in public in Arizona  Mind-reading by CNN.

The Media Has A History Of Bungling Reporting Surrounding Trump’s Finances. Here Are Just A Few Prime Examples

Captured US Mercenary Says In Video ‘Confession’ Trump Ordered Plot To “Abduct” Maduro  Totally credible!

Cuomo: Trump’s Goal Is Not to Save Lives, But to Cheapen the Value of Life  As if Fredo had any notion of what ‘Trump’s goals’ actually are.

Facebook’s New Censorship Czar Is Anti-Trump Leftist Who Made Barron A Punch Line

Who’s Right: James Carville or … Me?

Colbert, De Niro Cheer for ‘President Cuomo’ While Trashing ‘Idiot’ Trump’s Response to Virus

Sunny Hostin Praises McEnany For Holding Press Conferences, Then Immediately Accuses Her Of Lying

‘Well Excuse Me, Miss McEnany’: Joy Behar Attacks Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Over Coronavirus Testing

‘A Little Bit Like Hitler’: Ex-Democratic Senator, Obama Ambassador Compares Trump’s ‘China Rhetoric’ To Nazi Germany

Bonkers Late Night Conspiracy Interview: Will ‘Autocratic’ Trump Rig Election?

Yale Prof Promotes “Trump Death Clock”, Says COVID-19 Response “Awfully Close To Genocide”  Where does Yale find these morons?

Doctor rebuts NYT hit piece about Kushner’s coronavirus efforts

At least we can dump the pretense that the GOP is the ‘pro-life’ party  Mind-reading by the Washington Post.

Most common recycling mistakes

Judge sentences TX salon owner who refused to apologize for reopening

Sweden was supposed to remind me of ‘normal’ but instead felt reckless  CNN continues to push the Party Line.

This Navy Veteran Is Running Against Maxine Waters In November — And Organizing Anti-Lockdown Protests  The sheep rise up.

Lawsuit Challenges Minnesota Shutdown Order

‘The Year The Bill Of Rights Became Selfish Behavior’: Larry The Cable Guy Weighs In On Jailed Salon Owner

NY Times Publishes Op-Ed: ‘I Believe Tara Reade. I’m Voting for Joe Biden Anyway’

Democrats to Appeal Reinstatement of NY Primary

Biden Promises To Reverse Due Process Protections For Those Accused Of Campus Sexual Assault

California County To Remove COVID-19 Patients From Homes Based On ‘Living Situation’ — Will Place In ‘Other Kinds Of Housing’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Pledges To Decriminalize Social Distancing Violations After Salon Owner Jailed

Seven European countries agree on Apple-style contact tracing; API not certain

Democratic Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal: ‘Enormous Suffering’ Gives ‘Leverage’ To Push Socialist Agenda  Not as much as he might think, I suspect.

Kevin McCarthy Takes Aim At Pelosi, Says If Starbucks Is Open, The House Should Be Too

When Governments Switched Their Story From “Flatten The Curve” To “Lockdown Until Vaccine”

CNN Legal Analyst Decries ‘Astonishing Assault On The Rule Of Law’ After Flynn Charges Dropped

Illinois Pastor Says He Received Bomb And Death Threats After Reopening Church

Canada Moves To Ban 12 Gauge Shotguns And Big Bore Rifles

Californians Are Staring At A $54-Billion Deficit After Gov Newsom Instituted A Statewide Lockdown

Censored: The Great Courses  Google thinks of itself as the Ministry of Truth.

San Antonio City Council Passes Resolution Declaring “Chinese Virus, Kung Flu” To Be “Hate Speech”

Cold Air Rises – How Wrong Are Our Global Climate Models?

Not Only Does New Solar Chimney Design Cut Energy Costs By 50%, It Can Also Save Lives During a Fire

Ace of Spades is on the case.

This is an order to release her from jail while they consider her motion to vacate the sentence.

The case isn’t over yet but it’s looking good for her.

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There are examples of systems with incredible organizational complexity in nature. Birds in flocks, fishes in schools, ants in swarms all seem to just chug away, each doing their little part, and yet together they produce these incredibly complex systems we marvel about.

They scale really well too. There are some ant super-colonies that have billions of members, like for example the super-colony in Southern Europe, which stretches for 6000km.

And some are extremely sophisticated. Like leaf-cutter ants, who are practicing agriculture and antibiotics for more than 50 million years now, long before humans figured it out. The silly little things purposefully grow fungus! Not an easy task, as you may know if you ever tried to get your own sourdough starter.

The answer to all the morons who think that the economy needs some sort of central planning.

New York Times, so check for a second source.

County health officials in Washington State walked back earlier claims that young people were gathering in a deliberate attempt to be exposed to the coronavirus.

The Left Coast is a foreign country – they do things differently there.

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New guidelines issued by the Department of Defense would ‘permanently disqualify’ anyone who previously had COVID-19 from joining the military, according to a new memo first reported by Military Times and confirmed as authentic by McClatchy’s Tara Copp.

All those nursing home patients will be devastated to lose their chance to be an Airborne Ranger.

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They must be a key Democrat constituency. If they could reduce everybody outside of the Crust into such dependency, oh how happy they would be!

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The hits just keep coming. We know that Rod Rosenstein is an idiotic tool, but we had yet to see the scope memo he issued months late to authorize Robert Mueller’s work as independent counsel. The first “scope memo” was, shall we say, lacking. Now we can see the newly declassified and mostly unredacted version of the August memo Rosenstein issued to remedy the original memo’s defects. Politico’s Daniel Lippman and Kyle Cheney report on the memo in “DOJ releases Mueller’s marching orders.” They have also posted a copy of the memo online here. The Federalist’s Sean Davis addresses it in “Rosenstein Scope Memo For Mueller Peddled Steele Dossier, Logan Act Conspiracy Theories.” Andrew McCarthy comments on Twitter.

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Lloyd Blankfein clearly doesn’t realize how toxic his name truly is. For example, the mere fact that the ‘evil billionaire former CEO of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Goldman Sachs’ believes reopening the economy before too long might be prudent can be used as ammunition by the rose-emoji crowd to bash reopening.

Remember, identity politics logic focuses not on the merits of the argument being made, but on the merits of the individual making the argument.

I’m quite happy to listen to what any billionaire has to say, not that I’ll necessarily believe it.

With thanks to Bluebird of Bitterness, who is invariably funnier than I am.

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About time the Chinese did something useful.

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An experienced senior software engineer, Sue Denim, has written a devastating review of Dr. Neil Ferguson’s Imperial college epidemiological model that set the world on a our current lock down course of action.

Apparently Dr. Ferguson is a pretty shitty coder.

Conclusions. All papers based on this code should be retracted immediately. Imperial’s modelling efforts should be reset with a new team that isn’t under Professor Ferguson, and which has a commitment to replicable results with published code from day one.

On a personal level, I’d go further and suggest that all academic epidemiology be defunded. This sort of work is best done by the insurance sector. Insurers employ modellers and data scientists, but also employ managers whose job is to decide whether a model is accurate enough for real world usage and professional software engineers to ensure model software is properly tested, understandable and so on. Academic efforts don’t have these people, and the results speak for themselves.

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Imagine that, when the votes are finally counted in the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden squeezes out a narrow victory in the Electoral College. Then imagine that, weeks later, the nation is shocked to learn that President Donald Trump will receive a second term because a few previously unknown members of the Electoral College refused to vote for Biden.

Which is entirely consistent with the Constitution’s original intent.

But the Constitution does not mandate popular elections for members of the Electoral College. On the contrary, it provides that “each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.” If the state legislature agrees to it, a state could potentially pick members of the Electoral College randomly by throwing darts at a phone book.

What they’re really objecting to is the chance that it might make it less Democrat.

The liberal-moderate rift among Democrats has blown open in California

California Liberals Using Corona-Crisis To Transform State  And not in a good way.

Don’t Be Fooled by America’s Flattening Curve  New York Times. You’re still all gonna die.

Texas Bar Owner, Quarantine Protesters Arrested After SWAT Team Swoops In

The White House’s Push to Reopen the Economy This Early Is a Dangerous Gamble | The New Yorker

British Lefties Policing Bookshelves

Professor on Brink of Virus Discovery Killed in Apparent Murder-Suicide  Hey, nothing suspicious about that….

Coronavirus Hypocrites And The Death Of Civil Liberties

James O’Keefe: CBS Faked a Line of Cars to Make Corona Tests Seem Harder to Get

Governor Cuomo Says Medical Workers Who Voluntarily Traveled To New York Must Pay State Income Tax

Journos Slam Top ABC Anchor David Muir, Accuse Him Of Conducting ‘Softball’ Trump Interview

Missouri Informants Who Snitched on Fellow Citizens For Violating Stay-At-Home Orders Surprised To Learn That Their Snitching is Subject to Open Records Laws  Heh.

Police Are Complicit in Politicians’ Disregard for the Rule of Law

Another Left-Wing Attempt to Shut Down Free Speech

Michigan Legislature Is Taking Gov. Gretchen Whitmer To Court Over Lockdown

Ken Paxton to Newsmax TV: Dallas Judge ‘Abused His Discretion’ Jailing Salon Owner  The judge in question is from Dallas County, a blue pustule on the rosy red cheek of Texas.

‘Waco’: A Timely, Must-Watch Series In The Age Of Authoritarianism

WATCH: MSNBC Commentator Anand Giridharadas Gets Triggered at ‘Freedom-Obsessed’ Americans

ABC Suggests Trump Is Fine With Sacrificing Lives for the Economy

Coronavirus latest news: Donald Trump concedes more will die in reopening US economy  Telegraph.

Amanpour Tries to Get EU Official to Bash Trump Over Disinfectants Gaffe

ABC’s David Muir misses an opportunity as Trump ventures outside the Fox-verse  CNN.

This could be Trump’s worst mistake ever  CNN.

Lyin’ Fredo Paints Trump as Content with Deaths in Reopening, Pals Around with Brother

Ex-Obama Aide Jim Sciutto Teams Up With Biden Aide To Bash Trump on China

TOP 10: ‘Delusional’ Donald Trump and GOP ‘Villains’ Deadlier Than Vietnam War

Morning Joe Adores S.E. Cupp Column Calling Trump ‘Very Sick’  Remind me who S.E. Cupp is….

Stephen King, Colbert Fret: We’re Living in ‘Horror Story’ Where Villain Trump Tells Americans to ‘Drink Bleach’  Certifiable morons.

Pelosi Claims Trump Is ‘Cheering People’ Using Guns And Swastikas

Obama Fangirl Sunny Hostin Rips Trump: He’ll Never Be as Smart, Successful, Good Looking as Obama!

Nurse Fires Back At White House Reporter Who Shamed Her For Not Wearing A Mask

Study: Global warming to place billions in “near-unliveable” heat

Is There Enough Wood in the World to Meet the Sustainability Demand?

New satellite maps show dire state of ice melt in Antarctica and Greenland  Still waiting for New York to be under water — they keep promising and promising, but it never happens.

New Paper: Body condition of Barents Sea polar bears increased since 2004 despite sea ice loss

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For all your fez knowledge needs.

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Plasma thrusters have generally been thought of as a means of propulsion in space, but now one has been designed to operate under atmospheric conditions. According to the researchers involved, it’s an air plasma thruster that has the potential to produce the same thrust as a commercial jet engine.

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Good luck with that.

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Let that be a lesson to us all. Environmentalism kills.

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Jerry Pournelle was fond of saying that the purpose of government was to hire and pay government workers. Once government workers became unionized, the standard Democrat playbook of handouts in exchange for votes swung into play, which is why most Blue states are impressively underfunded on their public pension obligations.

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Asked to name any of his favorite tomes on China, Trump reportedly listed the following 20 books right off the top of his head.

1. “The Party” by Richard McGregor
2. “On China” by Henry Kissinger
3. “Mao: The Untold Story” by Jung Chang
4. “Tide Players” by Jianying Zha
5. “One Billion Customers” by James McGregor
6. “The Coming China Wars” by Peter W. Navarro
7. “The Beijing Consensus” by Stefan Halper
8. “China CEO” by Juan Antonio Fernandez and Laurie Underwood
9. “Poorly Made in China” by Paul Midler
10. “CHINA: Portrait of a People” by Tom Carter
11. “The Man Who Loved China” by Simon Winchester
12. “China Shakes the World” by James Kynge
13. “Mr. China” by Tim Clissold
14. “Country Driving” by Peter Hessler
15. “The Dragon’s Gift” by Deborah Brautigam
16. “Factory Girls” by Leslie T. Chang
17. “The Heavenly Man” by Brother Yun
18. “1421” by Gavin Menzies
19. “Seven Years in Tibet” by Heinrich Harrer
20. “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” by Amy Chua

And not a comic book in the lot. Has the press been lying to us all this time?

Anything with Bogart or Cary Grant in it.

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Talking out of turn. Destroying classroom materials. Disrespecting teachers. Blurting out answers during tests. Students pushing, kicking, hitting one another and even rolling on the ground. This is what happens in my school every single day.

You may think I’m joking, but I swear I’m not…during my three years of middle school, these sorts of disruptions occurred repeatedly in any given 42-minute class period.

That’s why I’m in favor of the distance learning the New York City school system instituted when the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Apparently online education is a way around many of the behavioral problems that make modern public schools crap.

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After all, the Crust have to have a place where their kids can learn about their White Privilege.

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Researchers in Switzerland have found a new organic light emitting diode (OLED) material that could scale the technology up to inexpensively light entire rooms and homes for the first time. The results come from a new arrangement of copper electrons, CuPCP, that replaces more costly precious metal diodes (PHOLEDs).

Donald Trump And The Fed Could Be About To Destroy The U.S. Banking System  Forbes. Trump the destroyer!

‘Egregious lie,’ CNN reporter fact-checks Trump’s Fox News town hall  As if a CNN reporter has more credibility than President Trump.

Trump says he shares his famed uncle’s science genius. A friend says the uncle ‘would have been horrified.’  Washington Post.

Pulitzer Prize Panel Rewards Anti-Trump Liberals, Compares Journos to First Responders  The Crust takes care of its own.

Blame Trump? Store Guard Murdered After Confronting Customer Without Mask  Here are the violent Trump supporters in question:

SPECIAL REPORT: The Eight Worst ‘Fake News’ Stories of the Trump Years

Deadspin Accuses ‘Moscow Mitch,’ Republicans of Allowing Thousands to Die  I guess he thinks that Andrew Cuomo is a Republican.

MSNBC’s Deutsch: ‘Cornered Animal’ Trump Will Do ‘Really, Really, Really Bizarre Things’  Such as ignoring MSNBC.

Soros-Funded AB PAC Pushes Fact-Checked ‘Misleading’ Anti-Trump Ad 1,089 Times

Sunny Hostin Twists Question About Joe Biden To Attack Trump Instead

Univision Guest Can’t Decide Whether To Bash Trump, Or Give Him Credit    Decisions, decisions….

Ann Coulter Mocks Trump After Criticism Of Lincoln Project: ‘Trump Traded His Campaign Promises For Paul Ryan’s Agenda’

‘I Don’t Want Justice’: Politico Founder Wants President Biden Even If He’s A Sexual Predator  Morality for Trump but not for Joe Fingers.

Founder of The Hill and Politico, and Former NYT Washington Bureau Employee: I Don’t Want Any Investigation Into Biden Because Proof That He’s a Sexual Predator Could Damage His Chances Against Trump, Which Is The Only Thing That Matters

Colbert: Trump ‘Willfully Endangering the Lives of Americans,’ Pence’s Head Is Up Trump’s Butt

Climate Claim: By 2070 Average Temperatures be “Unsuitable for Human Life to Flourish”

White House’s Montana Oil and Gas Leases Blocked by Federal Court

California Promotes Architectural Innovation Through Mass Timber Competition

A Timber-Based Building Method Draws Praise, and Skeptics

Global warming to push billions outside climate range that has sustained society for 6,000 years, study finds  Washington Post.

Unsuitable for ‘human life to flourish’: Up to 3B will live in extreme heat by 2070, study warns  USA Today.

First results from NASA’s ICESat-2 mission map 16 years of melting ice sheets

One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study  The Guardian.

Climate goalpost migration: if you can’t prove more hurricanes, say it’s making them relocate

Michael vs Michael: Mann attacks Moore as Russian Stooge.

WashPost Gets Pulitzer for Series on — Wait for It — Climate Change

Ace of Spades is about as close as we get to a tabloid here.

I don’t really know why this is thought to be such a big deal. Scientists are no more perfect than other people, and differ between what they do and what they say other people ought to do about as often as politicians.

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And who could blame them?

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People of Color behaving badly — what are the odds?