April 8, 2010

Cow Flatulence Cleared of AGW

It's safe to eat beef again, at least if you shop at the right butchers. The Telegraph reports to the joy of carnivores everywhere that cow flatulence has been cleared to the charge it contributed to global warming:In the past environmentalists, from...

January 14, 2009

Geithner should not be Secretary of the Treasury

The media rush to exonerate Timothy Geithner's failure to pay his self-employment tax as an "innocent mistake" (in Obama's words) ignores a crucial fact: even after he knew of his liability thanks to an IRS audit, he failed to pay taxes on ...

December 11, 2008

Rahm Emanuel, family man

Do you detect any signs of stress here? Fran Spielman and Abdon M. Pallasch of the Chicago Sun-Times write:Emanuel was uncharacteristically absent from Obama's news conference this morning. He was spotted two hours late in the lobby of Chicago's City...

July 30, 2008

Frozen fish chic

While the foodie trend is to demand we eat only local produce -- wherever we live and no matter how impractical that may be -- the latest trend is even more preposterous:Eat frozen, not fresh, fish.Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post writes about ...

June 15, 2007

The friends of Joe Wilson (updated)

Do you ever wonder what Joe Wilson's up to these days? Over at Just One Minute, JOM'er Rocco found this:Evidently Joe Wilson began working for Jarch Capital LLC, as Vice Chairman, in January of this year. I noticed that at the bottom of that link, th...