Getting Warmer

For those of you avidly following the slugging match between myself and bullying science blogger Kate of The Anterior Commissure on the topic of global warming, I highly recommend reading New Scientist’s “Climate Change: A guide for the perplexed.” This feature is billed as a debunking of climate change myths (perpetrated mostly by its deniers) [...]

Kate-tastrophe Watch

I have had no need to wax pontifical on current events of late, as I have been engaged in mortal blogbat with my charming and delightful colleague, Kate of The Anterior Commissure. (She named her blog after part of the brain that you’d need to be a neuroscience Phd candidate like her to have [...]

Catastrophe Watch

“Warming Predicted to Take Severe Toll on U.S.”
-Headline from The Washington Post.
So here’s an example of what irritates me about reporting on global warming. The ur-narrative in the global warming story, in case you’ve been on some other planet in the last few years that isn’t doomed (doomed!) by its human inhabitants, is that the [...]

Vagina With Teeth

No, really….vagina with teeth.
(Hat tip: Norm)

Cower, Iranian Nit-Wits!

“Boarding two helicopters, they left for their base in Devon, where they are to be debriefed and to undergo medical and psychological checkups, said Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, the chief of the defense staff.”
-from the New York Times, emphasis most assuredly mine.
Sir Jock Stirrup!!! Is this a belated April Fool’s joke on us [...]

Being Gay is Like Eating Ham

David Gelernter has been the topic of discussion on these pages before. And the subject matter is always a bit of inside Jewish baseball that is probably a bit tedious to most — even me, who has some bizarre affinity for Jewish topics. But I could not resist pointing out the shameful and slipshod op-ed [...]

(Blonde) Bombshell Revelation

Damn. Valerie Plame is a fox! So much for trenchant political commentary. I’d be happy to uncover her … secret identity. (For those of you appalled by this sexist banter, there’s something I could have written here that would have been a lot worse – a lot worse.)
By the way, what’s up with the smirking [...]

You Don’t Know Me

Holy crap! I’d say the pressure has finally gotten to Paula Abdul, but what pressure? Check out this clip of her whacked out on wawwy sauce. Again, no connection to international relations whatsoever, though I hear Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is a fan. I guess she likes her vodka Straight Up.

Holy Flurking Shnit: Ghida Fakhry is Hot!

It’s lust at first sight. Al-Jazeera English’s dishy anchor has this libidinous layabout in palpitations. I mean, this woman is gorgeous! She makes Katie Couric look like a two-dollar crack whore. (Actually, Katie Couric makes Katie Couric look like a two-dollar crack whore.) Too bad American cable providers won’t carry the channel. You’ll have [...]

Sacre Merde

Troubling news from the land of froggery. Ultra right-wing National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen (proof that in France the more rabidly draconian one’s politics, the girlier your name) has taken a significant hop in the opinion polls. According to a survey conducted for Le Monde and reported in Le Figaro (sorry, in French. You [...]