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Snark Twain is the unacknowledged, uncrowned, pound-for-pound, heavyweight champion writer of the world. He is also extremely modest. He lives in San Francisco with his trophy wife and two cats more beautiful than your children. You can read more of his work, published under the pseudonym Allan Goldstein, on his website, allangoldstein.com. Breaking news! Allan's new book, The Confessions of a Catnip Junkie is now available on Amazon.com! The best book ever written by a cat, but not for cat lovers only. Read the first two chapters free on Amazon.

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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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Archive for Snark Twain

The Killing of Trayvon Martin

Midnight Strikes at Five to Four

The Devil’s Dictionary; Revised and Updated

An Air Kiss for the Hollywood Liberal

Welcome to the big leagues, Mitt

Premium Citizenship: A Marketing Plan to Save America.

Helping Santa with The List

Occupy Wall Street in the Spotlight

Teaching History to a Digital Generation

The Debt Strike Pledge

Playing Pretend in Pakistan

Selling the Revolution

Fade to Black: Movies going nowhere

The Poisoned Chalice

An urgent message to good people everywhere

Breaking up with Obama?

Libya, Leadership and Lives

Broken Unions, Broken Nation, and the Lie that Keeps us Broke

“The Memoirs of the White House Janitor.” By Cosmo “Ace” Willingham.

Everyone is born a Socialist

A New Year’s Apology from an Incurable Writer

Which Side Are You On?

WikiLeaks Attacks Heaven

Obama Progressivism: The Post-Mortem

San Francisco: The Beautiful Bubble

The Counterrevolutionary Delusion

How do you know if you’re an artist?

Where is the progressive Tea Party?

A Walk on the Bright Side

A message from God: You’re Fired

Lazy-Americans: The Last Despised Minority

An Open Letter to the Tea Partiers

What do we lose if we “lose” in Afghanistan?

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