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A World Class (Yet Refined) Bitchslap

via Insty, a healthy dose of the adage: “Don’t pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, pays little for pixels.” Pure, Restrained, “STFU” Awesome! Now, to your observations about my blog’s comment section: I do not actively moderate it, except to occasionally remove duplicate posts. No real moderation has been needed: [...]

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Be Still My Heart Liver

Maker’s Mark to uncap first new bourbon since ’50s. Related articles by Zemanta Maker’s Mark to uncap first new bourbon since ’50s (pbpulse.com) Maker’s Mark launching its first new product (seattletimes.nwsource.com)

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The Science is Settled: AGW Data Sets Are Pretty Much Useless Garbage

Image via Wikipedia That assessment doesn’t come from climate-change skeptics, but from NASA itself.  A FOIA request from the Competitive Enterprise Institute revealed the internal e-mail evaluation, and also another problem with the East Anglia CRU data.  It turns out that the databases maintained by NASA, UEA CRU, and the NOAA NCDC have self-endorsing mechanisms [...]

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Canadian Health Care KILLS

Let’s see if we can’t tally up the scandals in this story.  First, instead of rushing Pankow into surgery, doctors waited more than two weeks to decide whether he was “surgery worthy.”  Obviously, this was not a medical decision, as the Mayo Clinic didn’t take two weeks to make a medical decision on Pankow. Next, [...]

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