Grassley questions climate change theories B Y JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS WATERLOO, Iowa - AnticiÂpating perhaps the next major policy debate...
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Jim Bechtel
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Jan 1, 2010 4:20 pm
Good riddance to Big Zero Maybe we knew, at some unÂconscious, instinctive level, that it would be an era best forgotÂten. Whatever the reason, we got...
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Jim Bechtel
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Jan 1, 2010 4:31 pm
Like others I'm a student of pop culture, and although I don't watch commercial TV I'm interested in what it reveals about America. (The only show listed that...
http://www.bscreview.com/2010/01/top-10-science-fiction-movies-of-the-decade-2000-2009/ Top 10 Science Fiction Movies of the Decade, 2000-2009 January 1st,...
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Jim Bechtel
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Jan 2, 2010 3:13 am
From the essay by NYT reviewer Manohla Dargis about Cameron's new film Avatar, below. SPOILER ALERT: read no further if. Personally I'd trace Avatar's ancestry...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/dec/08/religion-society-gregory-paul/print Are we better off without religion? We should be careful about...
I haven't verified any of the stats in this. -Harv FROM: http://reason.com/blog/2007/12/28/just-how-dangerous-is-police-w Just How Dangerous Is Police Work? ...
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Sam Collins
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Jan 2, 2010 3:22 pm
Interesting research, interesting review. A couple of comments, mostly on the latter: 1) Getting from correlation to causation may be uncertain if the...
Top ten lists...sheesh. "Donnie Darko"? "Solaris"? "Cloverfield"??? My two cents: list should have included "A Scanner Darkly", "Pitch Black", and "Sta Wars:...
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jopollack@...
Jan 2, 2010 4:36 pm
If the correlation is too strong, it rings alarm bells for me. Getting over 0.9 with any kind of social science data, such as the claimed correlation between...
History Shows 2009-1130 Proof that we're all gonna die! Actually, I don't believe any of this, but how exciting would be "We're going to be fine!" HOLIDAYS:...
I'd have been more impressed with '28 days later', if it weren't a scene-for scene rip off of the 1981 Australian Broadcasting Corporation adaption of 'Day of...
I'm guessing I wasn't the only one who nearly fell off his chair laughing when I read the "Mother Nature" letter in Saturday's Public Pulse section of the...
Ugg, I hate it when I make that mistake. Thanks for catching it. I noticed that I forgot to delete the "a" before "fact in the next to last sentence. I'll...
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Jim Bechtel
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Jan 3, 2010 12:04 am
I'm with you Vince; the funniest letter in a long time! You beat me to it; I've been gone all day. Good reply. (You don't suppose she wrote tongue-in-cheek, do...
I don't think it was tongue-in cheek either. I have a $5.00 bet with my son that it gets published. He says they are way to mainstream to put it out there. ...
MOTHER NATURE AND GOD Both are sometimes benevolent, and sometimes cruel. Both are sometimes clear, and sometimes inscrutable. Both are more powerful than...
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Jim Bechtel
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Jan 3, 2010 3:41 am
Nineteenth century colonialism redux. Investors flock to cheap African farmland ? But the locals who are hired to work it are paid less than the poverty...
A new entry on the blog: http://open.salon.com/blog/clay_farris_naff/2010/01/03/tiger_woods_our_new_years_resolutions Happy new year, y'all. Clay P.S. As...
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Jim Bechtel
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Jan 3, 2010 4:29 pm
So maybe mine from 2003 wasn't a joke after all? ... From: Skryja, David Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:35 PM ...
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Jim Bechtel
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Jan 3, 2010 4:39 pm
(Not until the thaw, of course ...) http://www.parade.com/health/2010/01/03-barefoot-running.html ' .... researchers searched 30 years of studies and were...
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Sam Collins
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Jan 3, 2010 9:29 pm
Thanks Jim: I have no idea whether the research review that resuscitated this topic was responsible, believable, or entirely made up from air. Common...
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Jim Bechtel
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Jan 3, 2010 9:59 pm
... in the PJEP network, of which Heartland Progressives is a part. I'll fill Andrew in on our plans for 1/16 ("American Swastika" book-talk) and 2/11 (Darwin...
Really perceptive essay on Obama and the Dems in today's NYT Mag: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03FOB-WWLN-t.html?ref=magazine Cheers, Clay -- ...
Here's an essay I wrote a few years ago: RELIGION: GOOD OR EVIL? Ed Pearlstein Is religion a force for good or for evil? There is evidence both ways,and I...
