Monthly Archives: December 2009
Schools of Rock
Rachel Maddow uses the “soporific” version of Night Before Christmas read by the “Senator from Blagojevich” in Congress yesterday as the set up for a piece featuring two rival high schools in Seattle with competing musical videos.
Filed under Musical Interludes
Gingerbread White House
As seen on Oprah! Meanwhile, in the real world… Just 87.2% of U.S. mortgages were current in the third quarter, according to the OCC and OTS Mortgage Metrics Report released yesterday. Serious delinquencies jumped to 6.2% of mortgage-servicing portfolios, an … Continue reading
Filed under Obama Administration
Fossil of the Year
You may have seen this momentarily on the news last week, but here’s the whole ceremony where Canada was recognized by Climate Action Network International as being “the absolute worst country” at the COP15 talks — an “honour” that plays … Continue reading
Global Warming: Problem Solved!
Well, maybe not quite yet, but perhaps geo-engineering may provide an alternative, vastly more cost-effective means of halting global warming, oops, climate change, than reducing carbon emissions. On today’s GPS program, Fareed Zakaria spoke with Nathan Myhrvold (formerly Chief Technology … Continue reading
Filed under Environmental Policy
Wackaloons Against Healthcare
In case you weren’t aware, earlier this week the Family Research Council held a “PrayerCast” from Washington, D.C., calling on “the living God” to intervene in the Senate so they might “frustrate the plans of the Evil One.” Featured speakers … Continue reading
Filed under Religion, Republican Party, Wingnuts
Land O’the Free – Home O’the Dumb
Here’s a somewhat puzzling confrontation between an off-duty DC cop and a bunch of kids throwing snowballs at passing Hummers on the snowy streets of Washington earlier today… Speaking personally, at about 1:35 in that video, I would most assuredly … Continue reading
Filed under Free Speech, Uncategorized
Sustaining Life
From yesterday’s Newshour, Dr. Eric Chivian, Center for Health and the Global Environment Director, Harvard Medical School, talks about the importance of preserving biodiversity and how, if nothing else, it acts as a kind of insurance policy for humans.
Filed under Environmental Policy
The Passion of Ayn Rand
Who knew? Apparently, it was a 1999 TV movie. I only happened to run across it quite by accident while searching for a particular track from one of my favourite progrock bands, but it struck me as quite amusing. Anyway, … Continue reading
Filed under Musical Interludes, Political Ideology
Lord Monckton v. Greenpeace Activist
I suppose it might be considered a somewhat unfair tactic to buttonhole an apparently rather gullible “environmentalist” on the streets of Copenhagen, but then again, maybe not.
Filed under Environmental Policy
Hugo Chavez at COP15
For entertainment purposes, if nothing else… I don’t imagine that blaming the world’s ills on capitalism, referring to America as the “Yankee Imperium” or quoting Fidel Castro will exactly win over many hearts or minds in the USA, although his … Continue reading
Filed under Environmental Policy
