Even the CRU thought the hockey-stick graph was flawed

New climategate shocker.

Stand up economics humor

An economist walks into a bar...

Michelle Obama Takes on Fat Kids

Frank J. at IMAO has the details.

1959 Mike Wallace interview with Ayn Rand

Interview split into 3 parts, about 25 minutes all together.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

UK: Naked Body Scanner Images Of Film Star Circulated By Airport Staff

So much for privacy. 

Claims on behalf of authorities that naked body scanner images are immediately destroyed after passengers pass through new x-ray backscatter devices have been proven fraudulent after it was revealed that naked images of Indian film star Shahrukh Khan were printed out and circulated by airport staff at Heathrow in London.

2/09 Treacher update

May be leaving Hospital between snowstorms.

NOAA postpones global warming announcement due to snowpocalypse

NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, is going to be providing information to individuals and decision-makers through a new NOAA Climate Service office. “More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters. People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives,” the release says.

Earlier snowmelt? That would be nice.

Treacher update

Writing from the hospital.