The introduction of an advice column for uptight Seattle residents sparks two questions. First, why did it take so long for a newspaper to start one? Second, how will they have room in the paper for anything else without doubling the number of pages?

H/T: Sound Politics

Plenty of new climate change stories hit the web tonight, including "Tempest erupts over hurricanes: Global warming debate at conference spawns name calling", "Appalachians Triggered Ancient Ice Age", and--you knew there had to be a motive for all these politicians clamoring over global warming--"Pay up--or the planet gets it".

Not to be outdone, Al Gore makes an appearance in another story from the UK.

H/T: Free Republic and the ever vigilant Matt Drudge.

Euro-Humanity on the Wane is a scathing indictment of what has happened to public education in the UK, and how it has underperformed private and "black market" private schools in India.

Quoting from Christopher Chantrill's excellent article: "Contrary to the received notion, it appears that the urban poor are not too poor, or too ignorant, or too feckless to send their children to school—or to pay for it.

And we are idly tossing into the air another very small idea, as inadvertently suggested by the documentary Up Series. What if children suckled at the teat of government schools generally grow up to be adult adolescents, don’t bother to marry, and don’t bother to have children?

They would be well on the way to the status of H.G. Wells’ Eloi in The Time Machine, 'humanity upon the wane,' shortly to fall into the clutches of the Muslim Morlocks. For when society sets itself 'steadfastly towards comfort and ease, a balanced society with security and permanency as its watchword,' it has no need to develop 'intellectual versatility… the compensation for change, danger, and trouble,' until it is too late."

Read the whole thing.