The Politics of Parsing

We Know What The Arctic Did Last Summer

This is a NASA satellite timelapse video.


NASA reports: The 2007 Arctic summer sea ice has reached the lowest extent of perennial ice cover on record - nearly 25% less than the previous low set in 2005. The area of the perennial ice has been steadily decreasing since the satellite record began in 1979, at a rate of about 10% per decade. But the 2007 minimum, reached on September 14, is far below the previous record made in 2005 and is about 38% lower than the climatological average. Such a dramatic loss has implications for ecology, climate and industry.

Rush Limbaugh - Pompous Coward

Co-Host of The View Doesn't Know if the World is Round or Flat

You have to see it to believe it. Next up -- a debate on whether gravity keeps TV talk show hostesses from falling into space.

Poor Reasoning to Stay in Iraq

Reason Magazine lives up to it's name:

Whatever its merits as a cost-minimizing tactic in retailing, "you break it, you own it" isn't bad as a cautionary principle in foreign affairs. But as a plan for what to do after you've ignored the warning, it's worse than useless. As Gen. David Petraeus' recent congressional testimony confirmed, the reason not to go in has become the rationale for staying indefinitely.

Read the entire, short piece.

John Hodgman's Eight Keys To Success

The 3 Minute History of Women in Art