The Ramble for 8/29/11

Queens, NY– Yes, I’m in the city. Some flooding, mostly in Jersey, and a number of trees down, again in Jersey, mostly.  I came in at 1am, so you can imagine that traffic was better than usual. I’m not looking

Latham, NY– I’m outside Albany, getting a load for Watertown, NY.

This week has been a series of hops that saw me running to within about 10 miles of the DC monument district. A little over an hour after I

Warmists full of hot air, a twofer from Ed Morrissey, Hot Air:

Two stories have dropped that may blow big holes in the anthropogenic global warming argument — one of which is literally sky-high. Forbes reports on a

Oslo, from Steven Erlanger,  New York Slimes:

OSLO — The Norwegian police on Saturday charged a man they identified as a right-wing fundamentalist Christian in connection with the bombing of a government building in central Oslo and a

Harford,PA Today I’m at the Flying J truck stop in Harford, along I-81. I ran from Rochester, down to Carlisle PA and am currently running up toward Albany.

I got the antennas fixed on the truck last week, and so

The Very Model of the Modern Liberal War, from Bruce McQuain, Questions and Observations:

[T]here is no – none, zip, nada – connection, not even a tenuous one, to American national security and the war on Libya.

Baby

Slapping down the left, the leftosphere since the murder of Cristina Green and others have been trying to push the idea that hate some exclusive province of the right.  There have been several notable rebuttals.  However the tour de

Keith Olbermann, Eric opined:

David has been rightly chiming in on the Keith Olbermann business. It’s kinda like observing a train wreck.

But I have to tell you that I look at this situation and have to wonder if

Via “Young Americans for Liberty”:

I suggest Obama and the left are to blame. We saw nothing of the sort before the left swept into power and the new attitudes about our soldiers and their job in Iraq. Given the

This is all pretty much “inside baseball”, but it’s the quickest way I can think of to get the info to those who need it:

I’ve upgraded everything to WP v 3.01, and upgraded all the relevant plug-ins.
I’ve also

Yes, I know, it’s been some time since I’ve cracked an editor open on this site.  It’s shameful, but you guys know the situation.  And anyway, and David is been doing a bang up job of keeping this site active

None dare call it journalism.  Shublog, Ace of Spades, dissects the Washington Post:

News Judgment, Washington-Post style

Senator George Allen says “macaca” on camera? 131 articles, 13 on the front page.

Congressman Bob Etheridge commits battery on

The connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel cannot be denied. The connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem cannot be denied. The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 year ago and the Jewish people are building

Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard, thinks the use of the word professor in a political oontext is racist,  Inside Higher Education:

If the term professor is used in politics, it’s seldom a compliment, and instead “implies dry, hectoring, unemotional, self

Prelude, from Jeff Poor., Newsbusters:

[Eve] ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she [Sarah Palin] doesn’t believe in global warming is bizarre.

[Joy] BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe