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Most non-scientists don't even know what the permafrost is, much less the importance of its thawing. Nor do most non-scientists know -- or understand -- what tipping points are.

Sunday’s massive climate march in New York was followed on Monday by the less coherent Flood Wall Street effort. Lots of people protested outside the New York Stock Exchange, and scores were arrested, including a guy wearing a Polar Bear suit. (Bulls are welcome on Wall Street, bears not so...

If you thought the Obamacare rollout was bad, the adoption of national education standards, known as Common Core, makes it look like another flawless iPhone launch. Led by the National Governor’s Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, the initiative to create national benchmarks...

Democrats face interesting strategic decisions with respect to billionaires. For more populist-leaning candidates, the preferred approach is to attack billionaires, complain about unfairness, and criticize the lack of transparency in their electioneering activities. Other Democrats, though, have...

The 1 percent’s twisted new scheme The answer to the question of whether rich people can buy elections is “Sometimes, but not always.” President Obama won reelection despite the massive amounts spent to defeat him by conservative business leaders. He beat back their spending by having a weak...

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) — Police in Pennsylvania say a man accused of shooting a bullet through a neighbor's window told a judge he fired the gun because it was the only way he knew how to unload it. Middletown Detective Patrick Nicastro tells the Bucks County Courier Times (http://bit.ly/1CwbE81)...

There's that "we" again, the ignorant who live in a closed loop of denial.

No money in it.

It was twenty years ago.

What were the items on the contract (the linked article lists 8)?

This morning on Twitter, Speaker of the House John Boehner was reliving past glories: "#OnThisDay in 1994, I joined House Republicans in signing A Contract With America." Ohhhhh, right, it must be election time. Christmas, you put up a tree and tinsel. Halloween, it’s ghosts and ghouls...

Fracking’s not going to solve climate change, scientists say — and it could end up making it worse Why trying to save the world with natural gas is like trying to lose weight with low-fat cookies Natural gas, also known as methane, is a greenhouse gas that, when burned as fuel, produces about...

Hundreds of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men refused to sit next to women on an El Al jet from New York to Israel — and spent the 11-hour flight trying to bribe people to switch seats and loudly praying in the aisles when they refused. “It was an 11-hour long nightmare,” one of the passengers told...

I doubt that either of them could give a damn. Assuming that they're not being backed by anyone, they're doing it to generate controversy thus sales. And since their audiences are easily excited -- and led -- their revenues are enormous.

You must be thinking of your wife . . .

And claiming that it's perfectly natural is way beyond yours.

Let's see now. You have how many climate threads? And you don't want me to post to them? What's good for the goose . . .

Or like you think it is . . .

Feeling persecuted, jem?