We Made It! December 31, 2010
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73,000 hits by the end of the year (since we started).
I would have liked to hit 100,000 but hey, almost three quarters of that isn’t bad.
We’ll get them next year
THANK YOU EACH AND EVERYONE!
Happy New Year, President Obama? December 31, 2010
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Didn’t See This Coming December 31, 2010
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Ok, I don’t know anything about David Beckham and some Eastern European hooker, but I do now know this shocking turn of events:
John And Elaine Mellencamp To Divorce
Mellencamp and his unbelievably gorgeous wife are virtual Bloomington institutions. My one brush with fame was encountering Elaine in my chiropractor’s waiting room, where I unsuccessfully pondered any possible way to strike up a conversation. “So, Elaine, how ’bout that Dalai Lama? Heck of a guy, huh?” Not so much.
BW
90 And Done December 31, 2010
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The UConn Women’s basketball team beaten by Stanford last night.
Their string of 90 wins is over.
It is amazing but tempered by the fact there is an imbalance in women’s basketball where only about four teams actually have a chance of beating such a talent laden team.
It is unlikely any men’s team will approach this record -not only is their more balance but it would take a team with a dominant player – a Lew Alcindor or Bill Walton like UCLA had. Such a player who could lead his team to 90 plus consecutive victories would almost certainly go pro before it became possible.
I’m Calling On My Blogmate to Investigate December 31, 2010
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By The Way December 30, 2010
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Tucker Carlson is a moron.
( I happen to be a believer, albeit reluctantly, in Michael Vick’s conversion – I would even let his kids have a dog)
Lest I wax too ecstatic, I’m still not sure he can beat a good zone defense when there is no blitz but if you were going to execute guys for that, he would be very far back in a very long line (probably right behind Testaverde).
Roger Goodell Is A Big Pussy December 30, 2010
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Brett Favre was fined $50,000 for “refusal to cooperate with the league investigation” of the Jenn Sterger affair, but was not punished for violation of league sexual harassment policies because Roger Goodell couldn’t find sufficient evidence of Favre’s misdeeds. Hey, Rog, you need evidence? Try this: “Favre, get in here and drop your drawers. Guilty as charged. Next case.”
BW
Finally, My Blogmate And I Agree On Something December 30, 2010
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Yep, that Rolling Stone list was abysmal…and those guys are supposed to know something about music. I completely agree about Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and half a dozen other OBVIOUS great singers who were excluded. This is why I try to avoid all the end-of-year ten best/worst/funniest/most scandalous/tallest/fastest/smelliest/pick-your-superlative lists. They’re mostly just stupid.
BW
Global Warming Or Cooling Or Whatever December 30, 2010
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I know it’s weather not climate but I still can’t figure it out:
James Taranto/ WSJ:
By JAMES TARANTO
We guess we should have thought of this. Yesterday we puzzled over this passage in a New York Times op-ed by Judah Cohen blaming global warming for the chilly weather:
As global temperatures have warmed and as Arctic sea ice has melted over the past two and a half decades, more moisture has become available to fall as snow over the continents. So the snow cover across Siberia in the fall has steadily increased.
The sun’s energy reflects off the bright white snow and escapes back out to space. As a result, the temperature cools.
How, we wondered, does the sun’s energy break past the filthy carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to make the escape to space? The answer, as several readers pointed out to us, is that the energy in question is still in the form of light when it makes landfall. The whiter the surface, the more light it reflects.
By contrast (literally!), darker surfaces absorb more light and then radiate heat. The atmosphere holds heat in, which is why it is warmer on Earth, even on a day like today, than on the airless moon, which must be a wonderful place because it is free of climate change. The theory is that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere holds more heat in.
It turns out that some global warmists were talking about white surfaces before white surfaces were cool. Here’s a May 2009 report from London’s Times:
Steven Chu, the Nobel prize-winning physicist appointed by President Obama as Energy Secretary, wants to paint the world white. A global initiative to change the colour of roofs, roads and pavements so that they reflect more sunlight and heat could play a big part in containing global warming, he said yesterday. . . .
Pale surfaces reflect up to 80 per cent of the sunlight that falls on them, compared with about 20 per cent for dark ones, which is why roofs and walls in hot countries are often whitewashed. An increase in pale surfaces would help to contain climate change both by reflecting more solar radiation into space and by reducing the amount of energy needed to keep buildings cool by air-conditioning.
We were out on the streets of New York last night. The whole place was white! And we haven’t run our air-conditioner since the snow started. But that’s nothing. Manhattan is roughly 1/175,000th the size of Siberia. You could paint the town red and it would absorb only a tiny fraction of the solar radiation reflected by Russia’s vast, snow-covered expanse.
If Cohen is right, global warming is its own worst enemy. Why do we need to paint the world white when “climate change” is doing it for us? More seriously, why should anyone accept a costly and coercive political agenda that is based on a simplistic account of science that in reality is complex and uncertain?
