Since there isn’t much that the government can do about the price of international oil in the short term, responses to price spikes usually follow a predictable template with slight variations for party. Get tough on OPEC, draw down the Strategic Reserve, drill ANWR (usually GOP), combat price gouging (Dem). New ideas come along once …
Archives for May 2006
Time To Commission Another Study
Via Carpetbagger, we now know the conclusions of a study commissioned by the administration to resolve lingering discrepancies between upper-atmosphere and lower-atmosphere temperature trends. This development should prove particularly important because longstanding disagreement betweent the two datasets has given climate skeptics a relatively rational basis for dismissing the question of change altogether. The data no …
Online Integrity
I agree with this, and will trim my blogroll of those who refuse to sign.
Stephen Colbert
Alright- I confess. I did not watch any news for a few days, and have been wrapped up with end of the semester stuff. Wht happened with Stephen Colbert- someone throw the links in the commens so I can find out what happened. *** Update *** Alright- I watched it. My only complaint would be …
Amusing Poll
This, for whatever sick reason, made me laugh: Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn’t locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi. Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in …
The November Elections
Via Memeorandum, this piece of bad news for the GOP: Six months before Republicans try to hold on to control of Congress in the fall elections, a new poll shows President Bush has slid to the lowest approval rating of his presidency, and a majority of voters say they’ll vote for Democrats in November. A …
Monday Beer Blogging – That Microbrew Taste
The other night I enjoyed a 22 oz. bomber of double-fermented IPA by the folks at Lagunitas in California and couldn’t shake the feeling of deja vu. Maybe I tried the Maximus IPA during my four-year stay in Colorado Springs, a microbrewing nirvana where most everything comes in a 22-oz. bomber. Probably not, Lagunitas only …
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