Drudge reports another tale of necessity being the mother of invention. Ananova - Man peed way out of avalanche

The Diplomad writes, "Fight Global Warming: Turn on the A/C & Open the Windows" and in doing so provides as fine a fisking on the muddle-headed thinking that is evident in "the independent report [that] was made by the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, the Center for American Progress in the United States and the Australia Institute" on global warming as I've seen in a long time.

The New York Post Online Edition comments on the glacial pace of government action even in the face of crisis. A person is granted citizenship 3 1/2 years after his death during 9/11. Many of the obvious steps to increase government data quality and hence awareness of threats have yet to be taken.

We have lost one of the greats. He went out the way everyone dreams of going, on top, and leaving them begging for more.

There's no one like him.

Godspeed, Johnny.

Johnny Carson, 30-year king of late night TV, dead at 79

"The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow -- and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already."

What a shock.

Why, if there was plenty of time to act, the pace of grant approvals to these bilious idiots for new studies would slow down. The gullible might take time to think about dire predictions of global warming in light of blizzard conditions across the US--hey, don't believe your eyes, believe the doomsayers!

What a bunch of malarkey. The UK Independent: "Countdown to global catastrophe"

On this day of the President's inauguration, nothing can be said, or will be said, better than this.

Both Drudge and InstaPundit link to this excellent story by the WaPo's Howard Fineman about the rise and fall of the Mainstream Media in its recent guise as a political party and king maker. MSNBC - The 'Media Party' is over