Potpourri

Horatius’ various browsers retain leftover tabs, some going back to June, so it’s time to close some and gather others into another helter-skelter -er- eclectic collection…

In a time when readership and viewership figures speak rather loudly about disgust at shameless media ideological shilling, the nuts and bolts of how important information is lost to lock-step bias can be found here.

Similarly rare is a bit of face-value perspective on the question of efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, from a straightforward cost-benefit analysis that starts by accepting the claims and promises of the IPCC and other advocates of such curbs.

Another hit on the Carbon Cult, timely again since the incident of the one question Al Gore has taken (but not answered) in this millennium, is the ongoing hysterical effort to hide the fact that polar bears are prospering on a growing Arctic ice cap.

Following the scent of pseudoscientific “forensic evidence” practices in courtrooms, we have a piece casting doubt on the time-honored custom of “releasing the hounds”.

Following something else customary, namely the money, we have a couple of examples of ruling-party members of Congress doing business as usual with the “emergency” bailout/stimulus/save-the-Earth bonanza.

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