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The earth would cool itself, due to global warming, which the GW deniers never have understood. This will be interesting, particularly if we are approaching a tipping point.

Actually there's no conflict there if the rising temps are causing the ice sheets to melt faster.

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Just goes to show that there's little if any relationship between education and intelligence.

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I don't know that I'd go that far. I'm still waiting for someone to connect the dots regarding the increase in temperature in the North Atlantic, the change in the Atlantic Conveyor, and the increase in the rate of melt in the Greenland and Western Antarctic ice sheets (the last of which is of...

Why don't you look up the figures on shelter and food bank closures and get back to me? And who is "we"? And what is "we" doing exactly to "help people out of poverty"?

Small business, perhaps, which does not have the same opportunities to benefit from these subsidies and tax breaks. Big business, of course, creates jobs that employ people; those jobs just aren't here. Taxpayers may not demand action regarding business abuses because they aren't aware of them...

This kind of white privilege is a willful blindness, along with a passionate embrace of exactly the kind of aggrievement and victimhood that white people often claim to resent in others. It’s found in Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity, of course, but also among people like hipster über-troll Gavin...

ExxonMobil, Chevron Locked In Bidding War To Acquire Lucrative Pennsylvania Senator HARRISBURG, PA—With both sides increasing their initial offers for the prized asset, multinational energy companies ExxonMobil and Chevron Corporation are currently locked in a fierce bidding war to obtain a...

It was an unprecedented headline in Iceland this week — a man shot to death by police. Traci Tong "The nation was in shock. This does not happen in our country," said Thora Arnorsdottir, news editor at RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. She was referring to a 59-year old man...

Why should they have to be? Why more so than around white kids?

Same reason you don't, I suppose.

Convexx/atticus/drownpruf/whatever is correct: you have no edge and you are under-funded. Your "high winrate" is irrelevant unless you have a minimally high P:L ratio to go along with it. Unless and until you develop a consistently-profitable and thoroughly-tested trading plan, you're wasting...

Sort of like American tourists who complain about the lack of air conditioning and central heating in Europe. And the toilet paper.

Posted elsewhere: Michelle Alexander, in her bestselling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, indicts the criminalization of drugs, and convicts the criminal justice system of maintaining a war against the black poor in the name of ending drug dependency...

Three weeks ago I wrote a column on racism, following the choking-to-death by police of an African-American man, whose “capital” crime was selling cigarettes singly on the street. No piece I have ever written for The Daily Beast has resulted in more responses. Lots of people of color wrote to...

How many more until the national media cares enough to look into the root causes of the violence, poverty, despair, terrible schools, and broken families. They've cared for decades, but nobody else does except for the faithful. The "media" is a business. As such they have to focus on what...