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Former vocational rehabilitation counselor living in the Chicago area. I've been married 26+ years with two young adult children and continue to advocate for disability issues, family welfare, and liberal human rights policies.

A Lesson from Dick and Jane

What Is Their Children Learning?

Get Out Of The Kitchen, Jackie

So What? Ya Wanna Make Something Of It?!

Rx for a Bitter Pill: The Fairness In Nursing Home Arbitration Act

The Great American Road Trip

What’s In A Name? ‘Tis Not As Sweet..

Labor Day, 2008

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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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A Lesson from Dick and Jane

What Is Their Children Learning?

Get Out Of The Kitchen, Jackie

So What? Ya Wanna Make Something Of It?!

Rx for a Bitter Pill: The Fairness In Nursing Home Arbitration Act

The Great American Road Trip

What’s In A Name? ‘Tis Not As Sweet..

Labor Day, 2008

Labor Day, 2008

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