The Hall of Fire

This chart is interesting, if also a little baffling: health care would cost a lot less now if only Nixon's plan had been adopted 35 years ago.

Edit: link fixed.

Is it extreme rhetoric if you actually believe it to be true? I'm absolutely astounded by what's going on in Washington over this... Trying to pass the bill without a vote. I am shocked! shocked! and astounded! that the Democrats would use the same legislative method Republicans have used in the pas...

I'm absolutely astounded by what's going on in Washington over this: Remember back in the good ol' days, when laws were passed by the House, and the Senate, and they got together in a conference commitee to iron out the differences, and then voted on the resulting bill to pass it in both houses bef...

Apparently the Senate Parlimentarian says the Democrats can't do this.

halplm wrote:Obama can't even claim it as a political victory any more, because it is so unpopular.

"So unpopular" means 43% in favor vs. 48% against.
And some of that 48% oppose the bill for not going far enough.

OK, your National Review commenter has followed up with a much more < thorough > explanation. The House would have to vote on a rule, which would, if approved by a majority vote, then cause the Senate bill to pass the House automatically when one of the amendment bills was passed by both the House a...

I apologize for my error, and thank you for the clarification.

I think < this blog post > by Jonathan Cohn at The New Republic , though addressed to a different source than the one to which you linked, is responding to the same issue. An excerpt: So let me get this straight: If Republicans want to introduce an endless stream of amendments simply to prevent a ma...

Well, the I[nformation] C[omissioner's] O[ffice] has found that [the] C[limate] R[esearch] U[nit] [at the Universirty of East Anglia] did violate the F[reedom] O[f] I[nformation] Act (don't you love acronyms?). Unfortunately, the law was written to have no effect, so they get off without any reperc...

Country was just mediocre and -- for me -- far from likable with very little redeeming about it. I much preferred No Country , the first time the Coens have really stared into the Abyss they merely joked around with in films like Fargo . I would love to hear more about the opposing views in these p...

It would have been much more interesting had Andrew called up some of the major critics and asked, "Hey, you loved these movies back then. So why aren't they on your list now?" The truth is that they didn't love LOTR back then. Or even if it was on their top ten lists for 2001, 2002, and ...

Metacritic's "Best of the Decade" is pretty interesting IMO, if you'd be interested in the less populist opinions: http://features.metacritic.com/features/2010/film-critics-pick-the-best-movies-of-the-decade/ Some great stuff on there, IMO, including, of course, LOTR in the top 10. Thanks...

Cenedril_Gildinaur wrote:It does look bad for the AGW faithful...

"Eppur si muove!"

Okay, what's MWP and AGW? MWP is "Medieval Warm Period", sometimes known as the "Medieval Climate Anomaly". In some parts of the Northern Hemisphere, c. 1000 and lasting for a few hundred years, temperatures are known to have been warmer than they are now -- or warmer than they ...

The warming rates of the years 1860-1880, 1910-1940 and 1975-1998 as well as the longer 1975 to 2009 are not statistically significantly different from each other; There has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995; And since the matter of the MWP is still up for debate, such tha...

halplm wrote:Well, Phil Jones is in continually worse shape.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... es-chinese

UEA response to Guardian story:
http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/pre ... nstatement

3. This is the global body saying Man-made Global Warming is going to doom us all, and you're OK with this kind of stuff making it into what they say is the global consensus? I believe the report is the size of a long book, with different sections requiring different specialties from different expe...

Funny that a picture of Elijah Wood as Frodo has the caption, "J.R.R. Tolkien was a well-regarded Beowulf scholar", implying that the picture is of Tolkien himself.

I disagree with Hannan about the verse he quotes ("The dwarves of yore"): it is not in alliterative meter.

Well, Phil Jones is in continually worse shape. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/01/leaked-emails-climate-jones-chinese On the other hand, Michael Mann has been largely exonerated: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/science/earth/04climate.html?scp=2&sq=Michael%20Mann%20Penn%20Stat...

Darn. I was hoping for something to offset the increase in pirates.