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Hypocrisy Reigns Supreme
Political Essays, Satires, Irony, Rascality, and Life
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Hey Snark, you double posted this. Anyway, here's a couple facts for you. 90% of shooting of blacks are commmitted ...
proletarian | 11May12 | More -
President Obama is a wonderful family man... I don't understand how anyone could assert otherwise. What are the facts that ...
Sabrina | 10Apr12 | More -
Fine work, Prole! I should have consulted you before I wrote the column! Keep reading, my old friend.
Snark Twain | 19Mar12 | More -
Snark my friend, I didn't know anyone ever read "The Devil's Dictionary" other than myself. Here's a couple, let me ...
proletarian | 16Mar12 | More -
oh yeah - one more thing, in the 1970s the corporate sham media widely publicized the danger of a fast-approaching ...
Timmy Bippy | 7Mar12 | More -
Oil is a filthy destructive fuel that empowers the elite, increases food prices, and destroys our water, land, and air. ...
Timmy Bippy | 7Mar12 | More -
paul - For a view of temperature & CO2 over the last 600 million years see:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100103072337/http://junkscience.com/MSU_Temps/historical_CO2.html
(click on the graph to ...
Mike Jonas | 1Mar12 | More -
im no scientist or clever guy but i do have a question on climate change millions of years ago was ...
paul | 27Feb12 | More -
We now have the "scandal" that Heartlands is funding anthropogenic climate change denial research, which is presented as proof positive ...
John Theophilus | 15Feb12 | More -
If I owe $100 to Tom but Harry owes me $100, the situation is the same as if Harry owed ...
zam | 7Feb12 | More -
Again, if you don't mind, a short follow-up Mr. Snark. Please forgive me for being so circumlocutory in my response. ...
proletarian | 28Jan12 | More -
Hey Snark, good to hear from you. I have a confession to tell. Whether I agree or disagree with your ...
proletarian | 28Jan12 | More -
Now don't do anything drastic, Prole! I remember some of my more fringy friends on the left wing fringe ...
Snark Twain | 26Jan12 | More -
Dave - you are quite right. I have tried a few times to explain to Joel that the issue is ...
Mike Jonas | 21Jan12 | More -
Joel and Mike: Gentlemen, you're getting hung up on the wrong issue. The issue is NOT the validity or ...
Dave | 21Jan12 | More -
Sorry Mr. Snark, I'd like to do a little follow-up if you don't mind. I refuse to vote for Mitt, ...
proletarian | 13Jan12 | More -
Oh, my, my, my, Mr. Snark -- always a pleasure to read you. As usual you have been very eloquent ...
proletarian | 13Jan12 | More -
Joel - your habit of portraying criticisms of scientists' work as ad hominems is getting ridiculous.
All of the data used ...
Mike Jonas | 4Jan12 | More -
Mike:
You claim BEST used the same data as previous studies. This is disingenuous and borders on a lie. ...
Joel | 4Jan12 | More -
Happy New Year to all. 2011 was a pretty miserable year in many ways, so here's hoping that 2012 will ...
Mike Jonas | 3Jan12 | More -
Geez, that's unbeilevbale. Kudos and such.
Keischa | 17Dec11 | More -
Thank you Mike,
On the third try you finally answered the question, sort of. "yes and no".
Just to be clear: ...
Joel | 12Dec11 | More -
Joel - Everything that I have said concerning Michael Mann directly or indirectly has been about the science and the ...
Mike Jonas | 12Dec11 | More -
Chief:
You requested: "Show me the science that is not so easily debatable, rather than debate the very debatable with esoteric ...
Joel | 12Dec11 | More -
Mike,
We're making some progress. You now say, "their numbers are correctly derived from their data using their stated methodology". ...
Joel | 12Dec11 | More -
Joel - You have very conveniently ignored all the pertinent points from my last comment(s). A lot of what was ...
Mike Jonas | 11Dec11 | More -
Mike,
You are misrepresenting the study again, and you're intelligent enough to know it.
From an article quoted on Watts's climate "skeptic" ...
Joel | 11Dec11 | More -
Joel - You ask "Is the science they did right?". They didn't do much science. The figures they ended up ...
Mike Jonas | 10Dec11 | More -
Mike,
In my experience with the HIV-AIDS "skeptics" (yes they like being called skeptics too), their arguments typically diverge quickly from ...
Joel | 10Dec11 | More -
Joel - that was a long and passionate comment, but you aren't seeing the whole story.
Anthony Watts was very optimistic ...
Mike Jonas | 10Dec11 | More -
"Make the science unassailable with out needing to have majority political support."
Herein is the challenge. People make a very ...
Joel | 9Dec11 | More -
Joel, I thank you for all things that you voluntarily do and for the sincerity with which I trust you ...
Chief Hypocrite | 9Dec11 | More -
Hi Chief,
You pointed out that even the "science is settled crowd" is unwilling to make significant personal sacrifices to reduce ...
Joel | 9Dec11 | More -
Ellen,
wow, that was harsh. You posed a question, but provided only a partial recollection of the data, which in ...
Joel | 8Dec11 | More -
Mike,
I find your argument tempting on the face of it, but it just doesn't stand up to inspection.
First, given that ...
Joel | 8Dec11 | More -
@Joel
Sorry I was away and could not respond to your posting.
If I recall the glacier photographs (daguerreotypes) were ...
elleno | 7Dec11 | More -
Joel - it's mainly a matter of language.
"Global warming" doesn't mean "global warming" any more. It means "man-made [CO2] global ...
Mike Jonas | 7Dec11 | More -
Mike,
The explanation for why the ocean warming cannot explain the time-scale of the observed trend is somewhat more detailed than ...
Joel | 7Dec11 | More -
Thank you from me and mine!
Chief Hypocrite | 26Nov11 | More -
Joel - apologies, somehow I missed your comments on 24 October. Briefly:
The sun's effect on global temperature over timescales longer ...
Mike Jonas | 24Nov11 | More -
Some good questions: "What is the ideal temperature for earth and when have we had it?" As humans we notice ...
Chief Hypocrite | 24Nov11 | More -
I love all the scientific garbledeegook. You're so much smarter than everyone else. I use to be a ...
Max17 | 22Nov11 | More -
Recently Gavin Polone, a manager and producer of Hollywood films wrote this in the Hollywood Reporter about Occupy Wall Street ...
Chief Hypocrite | 6Nov11 | More -
Chief, at lest your point comes across much more perspicuous this time. Although I may not agree with all of ...
proletarian | 5Nov11 | More -
Alan Greenspan once said something like, "if you understood what I said, I must have misspoken." He mistakenly thought he ...
Chief Hypocrite | 5Nov11 | More -
Telling them not to do drugs and then toking on a doobie at a party is also hypocitical. Hypocrisy is ...
proletarian | 4Nov11 | More -
Chief, I've read your article twice and find it more confusing the second time. It seems to be a little ...
proletarian | 4Nov11 | More -
Not a scientist just a 68 year old with some questions: 11 thousand years ago glacier national park was covered ...
john grove | 3Nov11 | More -
Lt., although I agree with your premise I believe what you are refering to is simply a by-product of what ...
proletarian | 3Nov11 | More -
The problem is not Capitalist.. The problem is not Socialists..
The problem is the constant 24/7 365 day a year bombardment ...
Lt.Borgen | 3Nov11 | More -
Hi Ellen,
Can you tell us when the second photo in any of these sequences was taken? If the first ...
Joel | 25Oct11 | More -
Here is a conundrum for all the tub thumpers that believe in AGW as opposed to GW.
1. Around the world ...
Ellen O'Day | 25Oct11 | More -
Here's an interesting thought experiment. The Koch brothers have a strong financial interest in arguing that people are not ...
Joel | 24Oct11 | More -
Mike:
I want to separately handle your repeated argument about solar activity. You claim that the fact that solar energy ...
Joel | 24Oct11 | More -
Hi Mike,
I'm sorry, but I find the accusations you're making to be just not credible. You are accusing a scientist ...
Joel | 24Oct11 | More -
Joel - Your last comment has only just appeared in my inbox, yet shows before mine in the blog. Not ...
Mike Jonas | 23Oct11 | More -
Joel -
>>>"I trust you’re offended at the person who made the initial claims way up at the top of this ...
Mike Jonas | 22Oct11 | More -
By the way: when an oil company funds a skeptic researcher to investigate global warming, they don't expect this answer, ...
Joel | 22Oct11 | More -
So I'm going to respond to a few of the points made above.
Mike: I'm glad you acknowledge that ...
Joel | 22Oct11 | More -
Chief, everyone has the right to express their opinions, and as long as it does not endanger anyone else that ...
proletarian | 13Oct11 | More
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Hey Snark, you double posted this. Anyway, here's a couple facts for you. 90% of shooting of blacks are commmitted ...