Maybe Santa needs to cut down on the coffee

Climate sceptics like alcoholics?

There is a moment in Malcolm Lowry’s novel Under The Volcano that reminds me of climate change sceptics.

Doomed alcoholic Geoffrey Firmin is on a journey towards death but he insists to his estranged wife Yvonne and brother that he can drink a beer or two because beer isn’t really alcohol.

For an alcoholic any [...]

Gort and Klaatu’s climate let-down

Here’s two panels from Throbgoblins on the debacle in Copenhagen. Read the whole thing on their site

Yessiree, Team USA sure scored a big win indeed.

As for that piece of rubbish in The Independent blaming the whole things on China, Socialist Unity makes mincemeat of that apologia (and implied defense of the US)

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Two Extreme Lowlights of the “Bipartisan” Senate “Healthcare Reform”

If it gets any more Bipartisan this Healthcare Reform bill will be issuing hunting permits for your quota of women entering and leaving women’s health clinics.

Because this is supposed to be a bipartisan effort to fix healthcare and all, and that is all the left really wants to do is to fix it so [...]

Insurance company stocks explode upwards on expected health care bill passage

Intoxination brings us this illuminating chart (click to view it live).

HuffPo on the collapsing political power of the Obama presidency

What’s costing the president and courting danger for Democrats in 2010 isn’t a question of left or right, because the president has accomplished the remarkable feat of both demoralizing the base and completely turning off voters in the center. If this were an ideological issue, that would not be the case. He would be holding [...]

Don’t mourn, organize

Firedoglake. Ten reasons to kill the Senate health bill

This is blogging at its best. Hard core investigative reporting backed up by solid facts. Something our mainstream media should be doing but isn’t.

The Senate’s health care bill must be killed. Sign our petition to Congress and President Obama: We must do better for health care than this bill.

The Senate health care bill [...]

An anarchist defense of Karl Marx

Black Sun Gazette

Karl Marx has received a bum rap. Some see him as the godfather of the modern revolutionary movement while others see him as the architect of Stalin’s gulags. I’m in the former camp rather than the latter. This is not to say his he is infallible, his texts are sacred, [...]

Yeah, but how do you drive it?