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Archive for February, 2009
February 16th, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
Kevin Sabet has advice for the new drug czar; Judge Steven Alm wonders why California doesn’t try a proven technique to reduce drug use and crime among probationers and parolees.
February 16th, 2009
Category: Climate change
The Washington Post wouldn’t give George Will op-ed space to deny that HIV causes AIDS, or to assert that George W. Bush plotted the 9/11 attacks, or to claim that thimerosal causes autism. But the assertion that human activity is not currently raising planetary temperature to a dangerous degree is just as much fringe pseudo-science, and depends just as much on belief in a massive conspiracy among experts to promote falsehood.
February 16th, 2009
Category: Climate change
George Will’s unspeakably irresponsible musings on climate change this weekend (TPM dissects it with the serious analysis it does not deserve.) prompt the following two reflections: It was cooler last night than it was twelve hours before, and that was true almost everywhere on the planet. Day after day, anywhere you look, again and again [...]
February 16th, 2009
Category: Israel
Avigdor Lieberman isn’t just a racist who subverts democracy: he betrays his own constituency.
February 16th, 2009
Category: Middle East Politics
Small but real liberal reforms in Saudi Arabia. Will America respond?
February 15th, 2009
Category: Sports, Woolgathering
Torvill and Dean’s great Boléro skating performance.