There’s a lot of “stupid goddamn journalism” going around lately. Via Sadly No!:
Dear Dr. Atrios. I have a good Wanker of the Day nominee for you. His name is Jake Tapper and he’s (tragically) a senior national correspondent at ABC. He’s also apparently illiterate.
Go read all of Brad’s post on Sadly No!… He speaks for […]
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I feel like I woke up this morning and found boundary lines painted all over the surface of the planet, making it look like a Globe from space. But what if the entire Earth was inhabited by only one species of humans?
Or let’s put it another way. It was presumably okay when all of the […]
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AFP ran a very amusing story today about Al Gore and Bono at the World Economic Forum in Davos, discussing Global Warming.
Apparently, Bono has confessed that “having climate campaigner Al Gore round to your house is to open yourself to a self-flagellating guilt trip.”
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John Kerry spent some time today working on one of the issues most import to him, the environment and climate change. He spoke to a Harvard Law School class on the issue of “The Law of Climate Change.” Kerry also wrote a letter to Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne asking him to delay a 30 […]
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A quick note to readers: I’ll be traveling a bit in the next few days and will post when I can. Before I head out, I wanted to share this speech that John Kerry delivered today on the Bali Climate Change Policy:
John Kerry, who represented the United States Senate last week at the international climate […]
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The WaPo has an in depth piece on the Bali Climate Change talks and John Kerry’s role representing Congressional Democrats at the talks. Kerry, was the “sole standard-bearer for Congress” at the talks, although “about a dozen senators and House members had planned to attend. The WaPo noted that “most are stuck in Washington dealing with […]
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Cross-posted on Stock Picks Bob’s Advice, Trading Goddess, and John Kerry for President 2008:
I join with other investors in disappointment of seeing a 1/4% drop in the Fed Discount Rate.
The market didn’t like it and turned from about a 50 point gain in the Dow to a 220 point loss. And the market has another […]
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Al Gore told CNN today that there were no “campaign plans in his immediate future,” but he also said, he hadn’t “ruled out getting back into the political process at some point” — and “if he did return to political life, it would be to take another shot at the White House. ”
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On Thursday, the House passed an energy bill with “the biggest increase in vehicle fuel-economy standards since gasoline cost less than a dollar a gallon.”
The L.A. Times reports the bill is headed for a “showdown in the Senate and a possible veto from President Bush.”
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The U.N. Climate Change Conference began in Bali today. Delegates from over 180 nations are participating along with observers from intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. The purpose of the Bali conference is ”to negotiate a new pact to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.”
Among the non-govermental participants at the conference will be a group of islanders […]
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Robert Kennedy, Jr. endorsed Hillary Clinton today.
I’ve got to say this is a heavyweight endorsement for Clinton in my opinion. Robert Kennedy, Jr. is a progressive activist who’s admired and respected on his stance on environmental issues and voter fraud and he’s a Kennedy… not just any Kennedy mind you, he’s Bobby Jr..
As CNN notes, […]
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The man whom the people elected in 2000 to be president was in the temporary residence of the man whom the Supreme Court anointed.
President George W. Bush hosted former Vice-President Al Gore, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and five other Nobel laureates, Nov. 26. This annual handshake photo-op has been an American tradition.
The Nobel […]
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