I was feeling a little subversive yesterday morning when I posted Strunk and White’s advice for bloggers. It amused me. But since it drew such varied and amusing ripostes, it’s worth defending why I it struck me. At the risk of abusing S&W’s point, I do not think bloggers should not have and share opinions. …
Paul D. Thacker, in a New Republic piece, tags Steven Milloy, the “Junk Science” king, with the paid-pundit spray can, that so recently smeared our old friend Michael Fumento: But, whereas Scripps Howard fired Fumento and apologized to its readers, Fox News continues to look the other way as Milloy accepts corporate handouts. And it’s …
Strunk and White offer this advice for bloggers: Unless there is a good reason for its being there, do not inject opinion into a piece of writing. We all have opinions about almost everything, and the temptation to toss them in is great. To air one’s views gratuitously, however, is to imply that the demand …
Nature, in an editorial in tomorrow’s edition, argues that the IPCC is falling short in not including the lateste economists have to offer in it’s next assessment round: The inclusive nature of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is currently preparing its fourth assessment of global warming for publication late next year, has …
Roger Pielke Jr. links to a report on a study that identified a remarkable ability of our brains to ignore inconvenient facts: The test subjects on both sides of the political aisle reached totally biased conclusions by ignoring information that could not rationally be discounted, Westen and his colleagues say. Then, with their minds made …
On Bob Civiak’s report on the Reliable Replacement Warhead.
From Fred Stutzman: The student, whose sexual orientation was known to administrators, and agreed to live a closeted life along the lines of a particularly draconian set of rules, was ultimately expelled when he chose to signify his interest in the same sex in the Facebook. (via dcm) (update: 12:30 p.m. MST – Fred seems …
A commenter asks: “By the way, I wonder when we’re going to get a warmer year than 1998?” NASA’s GISS team answers today with some updated numbers: “The year 2005 may have been the warmest year in a century, according to NASA scientists studying temperature data from around the world. ” No surprise here, as …
Reminded by Coco’s trenchant observations on the politics of impact fees, I’ve a question: of all those new home permits being issued in the metro area, what proportion is in multi-home developments, and what proportion is in single-lot infill around the city’s fringes? My anecdotes tell me infill is going gangbusters right now, but I …
More evidence that the British own this language and we’re just borrowing it for a bit. From New Scientist, the story of a chap “who confused his guests at a dinner party by apologising for an astringent apple-based dessert, saying:” This pie is a trifle tart.