- Kudos to Les Miles for displaying more sustained idiocy than I can recall ever seeing in two minutes of a college football game. Way to follow up one of the finest onside kicks I’ve ever seen, man. You’re making me look like a genius. Dropped Arkansas game next?
- Mark Ingram for Heisman.
- I have no trouble believing that Kansas head coach Mark Mangino is an abusive jackass. Shame he had to lose for it to be news, isn’t it?
- It’s going to cost $18 million to send Charlie Weis packing. Ouch.
- Only $4 million for Al Groh, though.
- Mark Richt? Can’t believe it’s plausible, but it’s looking that way. Wow. That must be some kind of record for shortest time from untouchable to ass on fire.
- An open invitation to all Auburn fans.
- Haven’t seen a line yet. What sounds about right? I’m thinking Alabama -8.
- The ACC championship game I have dreaded has come to pass. It’s my friend Charles (Georgia Tech) vs. my friend Cheryl (Clemson). I’m genuinely torn. Remember, it’s Alabama’s own Dabo Swinney heading that Clemson squad! I’ll tell you, I’m really leaning toward the Tigers on this one.
- I wonder if, with a division title in their pocket, they’ll stay focused vs. Spurrier this weekend?
Nov 222009
In case you haven’t heard—and given the shameless bias of most mainstream news sources (particularly on the topic of global warming), you may well not have—hackers recently breached the network of a prominent British climate research organization and released about 61 megabytes of confidential information “into the wild.”
To say the released information is damning for the Al Gore crowd is a large understatement. It’s a Caligulan orgy of evidence, frankly. It’s so delicious, I kept thinking it was going to be a well-perpetrated hoax.
Alas, the well-perpetrated hoax may well be “global warming.”
I have noted from time to time how remarkably consistent a hard-left pro-environmental agenda is with an anti-capitalist agenda. That, more than any other single factor, has kept me skeptical that a) global warming is occurring (as described) at all; b) if it is, that human beings have anything significant to do with it; and c) if it is, that it shall inevitably yield the calamities so often ascribed to it.
Here is an “inconvenient truth” for the radical left environmentalists: the planet hasn’t warmed in a decade. Here’s another one: it’s actually cooling. The released emails and papers discuss in several places ways to manipulate evidence to massage these facts from the discussion. Other discoveries:
- Candid, private doubts about whether the planet really is warming at all
- Destruction of evidence contrary to anthropogenic global warming theory
- Fantasies of violence against prominent global warming skeptics
- Selective use of data (“cherry picking”) to disguise the true effects of past climate events
- Strategizing on how best to eliminate skeptics from the scientific journal peer review process
Remember, though: this is “settled science.”
James Delingpole at Telegraph has assembled some of the juicier bits discovered (so far) here. (He also helpfully tells you that the time to dump stock in alternative energy companies is now.) Heh.
Dear readers, don’t miss the magnitude of this. This is a lot of (formerly?) well-respected climate scientists actively and sustainedly behaving most unscientifically. This is creating an emergency where one does not exist, with nothing less than the world economy at stake. This is a travesty of premeditated deceit.
I’ve read several polls indicating that “global warming” hasn’t been of much concern to average Americans lately, since they’re all wound up about silly things like the economy and security. The climate change boondoggle was already ill-equipped to take even small arms fire, much less the bunker-buster it got this week.
Like I said, delicious.
The United States Preventive Services Task Force, a panel funded and appointed by the United States government, recently recommended that women begin mammograms at age 50, or ten years later than the previous guidance of age 40. It also downplayed the usefulness of breast self-exams.
This seemingly odd advice immediately fueled speculation that the government was already trying to cut costs, or ration, health care, even before the “reform” is passed. However, we here at WmWms recognize it as simply the product of better knowledge as medical science advances.
In that spirit, here are a few other new health guidelines. Effective immediately:
- Turns out Pap smears aren’t such a big deal. If you just really don’t like getting them, don’t.
- Men should have an annual prostate exam beginning at age 75.
- If you get something trapped in your ear or nose, use a long, slender object with a blunt tip to attempt to retrieve it yourself. A chopstick works well, or maybe the end of a wooden spoon handle.
- Children’s vaccination recommendations remain the same as before. However, if there are diseases on the list you’re really pretty sure your kid won’t get, you can skip those.
- In lieu of expensive and almost always ultimately unnecessary diagnostic chest X-rays, a gentle kiss on the forehead from your radiologist will suffice.
- Speaking of X-rays, if you think you’ve broken one of those zillion little tiny bullshit bones in your hand or your foot, just wrap it up in an Ace bandage and take it easy for a while. It’ll be fine.
- There is now a two-digit minimum for reattaching fingers or toes.
- Cialis, Viagra, and Levitra are no longer recommended treatments for erectile dysfunction. Instead, ask your wife to act and dress sluttier.
- Lacerations less than two inches in length no longer require stitches.
- It’s just a cold. You don’t have a sinus infection. In fact, there’s not even any such thing as a sinus infection. Quit your bitching, you baby.
Nov 192009
- Some days, I just want to be the guy who sits in a lawn chair in a kids’ swimming pool in the front yard and drinks beer and reads the paper.
- Ronnie James Dio is in the hospital. What a marvelous singer/songwriter he is. Love his stuff from Rainbow, from Black Sabbath, and solo. Get well soon.
- Speaking of heavy metal, Iron Maiden: Flight 666 is outstanding. I might have to buy this one. Good recommendation, Tommy.
- Sarah Palin is going to be in Birmingham next week. I kicked around the idea of making the trip, but I heard a news story today about folks in another town camping overnight in line. No thanks.
- Would you believe that seasonal flu is three to twelve times deadlier per case than H1N1? That’s using the CDC’s own numbers. Here’s a rarity in the current discussion: some healthy skepticism.
- Stop bowing, stop apologizing. Amen.
- Go watch this video of a patient Texas police officer dealing with an affectionate cat.
Nov 182009
Man, that “saving or creating” jobs business is hard work. Did you hear about the “stimulus” creating 30 jobs in Arizona’s 15th Congressional district? That’s change we can believe in, folks.
Only there is no 15th Congressional district in Arizona.
I loved this bit too:
…the administration has been forced to slice 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on stimulus spending because of what officials deemed to be “unrealistic data” flowing in from stimulus recipients.
Gee, you know, it’s been a little while since the election, but I think I remember lots of hopey-changey stuff about transparency, accountability, and good things like that. You’d think after spending $18,000,000 to redesign recovery.gov, and having all of our best interests at heart, they’d be particularly careful about reporting on, you know, fictional Congressional districts.
But really, we shouldn’t worry. With a cadre of Chicago Democrats looking after things, what could possibly go wrong?
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