“What they really want to see is, they want you to chop your fucking arm off, hold up your arm, wave it around spewing blood, and believe me, if you did that, […]
Oh Noes!!11! Glacirs not meltin. Mak IPCC bad!

In case you haven’t heard, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is dead, done in by the nefarious failure to check a single reference in a 3000 page report. Or rather, […]
Nota Bene #100: Il Planetario di Figaro
Wow, 100 issues of Nota Bene! Props to Russ for helping me for a while with this nifty little S&R feature. Never mind all that now, let’s get on with this issue. […]
Nota Bene #96: Saturn's Hexagon and the Bulava Spiral
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Nota Bene #95: STFU
Gonna try something different
Nota Bene #92: Echoblowcation
A few things for you NB readers:
Happy Birthday to The Commonwealth: could this be Britain's future?
I was surprised to learn that 2009 is the 60th anniversary of The Commonwealth—the association of former British colonies that still, amazingly, continue to work with each and talk to each other […]
Free the markets
. . .or, why can’t we be more like the savage socialists across the pond? Marion Nestle recently pointed out that in Europe food must be labeled as containing GMO’s. The system […]
The Weekly Carboholic: U.S. Chamber of Commerce files for EPA climate disruption trial (update #2)

U.S. Chamber of Commerce files for EPA climate disruption trial GRACE satellites show water use in India is unsustainable Biofuel crops may become next invasive species Is GM’s 230 MPG Volt claim […]
Has a college degree become a bad investment? Better question: is conservative rhetoric the worst investment in history?
Yesterday over at Future Majority, Kevin Bondelli responded to Jack Hough’s New York Post column “Don’t Get That College Degree!” Bondelli’s take led with one of the more terrifying titles I’ve seen […]