Good, strong statement from Mann: An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has set aside a subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the University of Virginia seeking documents related to the work of climate scientist and former university professor Michael Mann. Judge Paul M. Peatross Jr. ruled that Cuccinelli can investigate whether fraud …
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The sweetest pets in the world
It’s no secret that the Koch brothers are financial supporters of Reason magazine. Don’t be too surprised if the FreedomWorks/Glenn Beck alliance causes a major change in how the Reasonoids write about Beck. Here’s one slobbering change-of-heart already. If Mrs. Suderman over at the Atlantic discovers a newfound respect for Beck, that will be a …
Is BP an Oil Company or a Criminal Enterprise?
Or both: While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems. For 40 days after a piece of equipment critical to the …
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I Know One Johnny Who Couldn’t Conform
Adding to Mistermix’s post, I’m actually very, very troubled by the turn of events the past few decades. I don’t know what to pin the blame on, whether it be overly cautious parents forcing the hands of teachers, lawsuits forcing the hand schools, distortions in the media of how violent society and our schools are, …
Town Halls, Revisited
Some (slightly) positive news for a Monday morning: Q: What are people in your district saying about the health care law? A: What has struck me decisively is how the public mood has switched from sort of the 30,000 foot policy debate of last August and has pivoted to very practical implementation-related questions today. The …
Why Johnny Can’t Conform
This post has a pretty chilling list of invasions of student privacy: The increasing use of student surveillance and intrusion of school districts into students’ extra-curricular conduct should alarm us all. Whether it is a district surveilling students in their bedrooms via webcam, conducting random drug or locker searches, strip-searching students, lowering the standard for searching students to “reasonable …
Playing Her Age
I finally saw The Girl Who Played with Fire yesterday. This is Lena Endre, the actress who plays Erika Berger in the series. She’s obviously a beautiful woman, but what’s quite striking about her is that, unlike almost every American actress around her age (she’s 55), she doesn’t appear to have had a half dozen …