Plead the First

A long discussion has developed at Ed Cone’s blog, initially focusing on the recent Kindley brouhaha and sidetracking into issues surrounding gay marriage. In the comments, Sam Spagnola argues that homosexuals are not being discriminated against with regards to marriage, because they can indeed get married – they simply need to marry someone of the […]

Over at Noteworthy, Bubba has posted another take on global warming, linking to an article by Alan Caruba, a writer and public relations counselor. Bubba quotes from the article, stating: We could stop all industrial activity and require all cars and trucks off the roads of the world and it would not make a single […]

Glenn Greenwald points out an interesting question asked by John Amato: [W]hy are all of the Bush supporters celebrating the unauthorized leak to the Daily News of the FBI’s arrests of alleged terrorists who were talking in Internet chat rooms about blowing up the Holland Tunnel (later news reports indicated that the plot was really […]

We attempted to go to Greensboro’s Fourth of July Parade this morning. Unfortunately, we got out of the house a little late, and missed most of the actual parade. We did catch the tail end and found this guy bringing up the rear: Fortunately, there was plenty more going on, so we made our way […]

Bubba over at Noteworthy approvingly quotes an article by Richard Lindzen disputing that there’s any consensus on global warming. Lindzen takes issue with Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and sounds pretty sure that there’s not much we can be sure about with regards to global warming. How sure is he? Not very, according to […]

I finally got to see An Inconvenient Truth this weekend. One of the most striking parts was when Gore addresssed the common argument that we’re simply experiencing nothing more than cyclical variations in temperature and CO2 levels. He displayed a series of charts showing data taken from ice core samples which did indeed reveal cyclical […]

Regarding my post yesterday about the argument that only terrorists need to worry about government programs such as warrantless wiretapping: Yesterday’s episode of Ze Frank’s “the show” addressed the issue as well, and had a great example of how some people are missing the point: The question isn’t whether this program would be effective at […]