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One Nation Under God is more Gideon Planish than Elmer Gantry. Corporate GODless religion doesn't seem to be aging well, may even be losing its automatic right of deference.
Commented Feb 21, 2018 on The Preacher and the Plain Speaker at Lance Mannion
The Preacher and the Plain Speaker
Posted Wednesday morning, February 21, 2018. Billy Graham’s gone. He outlived his own reputation. Lived to see his son become the egregious bigot and fraud and Right Wing tool he was not. Please forgive me, though, for speaking ill of the dead. Graham was a problematic figure who did the soul ...
Gene Hackman, in 1972, Los Angeles, played the bad cop in Cisco Pike.
Not a decent person. But a good movie about pot, lost promise, and Karen Black's breasts.
Also, it has beach scenes and kills Harry Dean Stanton.
Commented Jun 22, 2016 on The Nice Guys: Too nice for the 70s at Lance Mannion
The Nice Guys: Too nice for the 70s
Saturday. May 21, 2016. Assiduously ignoring they’re stuck in the 1970s: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, and Angourie Rice in The Nice Guys. The Nice Guys is set in L.A. in 1977 and there are moments when it looks like it was filmed in L.A. in 1977. It looks more like it was filmed in L.A. in 197...
Rivers all look the same.
Commented Apr 20, 2015 on Spot sees the ducks at Lance Mannion
Spot sees the ducks
Saturday evening. April 18, 2015. Stop and go on the Henry Hudson on my way into the city tonight. More stop than go so I had plenty of opportunity and time to study the scenery which, traveling south on the parkway is all off to the right, looking across the Hudson River to New Jersey. Beautifu...
That article may have made an abbreviation respectable : TL/DR
Commented Feb 7, 2015 on Was This the Worst Article Written for the Old New Republic in the Decade of the 2000s? at Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
Was This the Worst Article Written for the Old New Republic in the Decade of the 2000s?
**Peter Beinart**: [A Fighting Faith](http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/fighting-faith): "On January 4, 1947... >130 men and women met at Washington's Willard Hotel to save American liberalism. A few months earlier, in articles in The New Republic and elsewhere, the columnists Joseph an...
The best legacy skills are the slow cooker kind. A deep piece, that requires multiple sources, physical exposure, and background knowledge. Three that I can think of are Balko on Ferguson's structural oppression, Taibbi on foreclosure courts, and Monica Potts on poor women's life expectancy - http://prospect.org/article/whats-killing-poor-white-women
Commented Jan 12, 2015 on The Recent Thing Closest to a High-Quality DeLong Smackdown I Can Find: Legacy Journalism Skills Edition at Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
The Recent Thing Closest to a High-Quality DeLong Smackdown I Can Find: Legacy Journalism Skills Edition
Apropos of: **Zumb**: [I've been thinking about what...](https://ello.co/zumb/post/XAhm0Spa_rqrlqikaZbcnQ): >The legacy skills of reporting have lost their value..." and my: [Legacy vs. Internet Media Once More](http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/11/legacy-vs-internet-media-once-more-live-from-...
Sadly, yes.
A bit of money & some nice slogans to wash it down with will be enough.
Commented Nov 9, 2014 on That wasn’t a Republican wave washing through Massachusetts. It was barely a ripple. at Lance Mannion
That wasn’t a Republican wave washing through Massachusetts. It was barely a ripple.
Oh boy! More fun with maps! This is the map of Massachusetts showing the results of the gubernatorial election in which the Republican wave carried away the Democratic nominee, Martha Coakley, drowning her hopes forty-one thousand votes deep. That’s about as close to the bottom of the sea as a...
The MS Walker distillery is definitely down by the tracks in East Somerville. When I pony up a full $9 for a liter of Ruble Vodka, there's no doubt I'm getting it fresh & local!
Commented Aug 27, 2014 on This is dispiriting at Lance Mannion
This is dispiriting
That craft whiskey you’re planning to give to your boss for his birthday? Did you look at the label? Did you wonder how your local distillery that’s only been in business for eleven years managed to produce a fourteen year old Bourbon? Read the promotional materials for the Rancho de Los Lucero...
Until the closing credits I thought Yondu was Woody Harrelson.
Commented Aug 20, 2014 on Guardians of the Galaxy: “Everybody’s got dead people.” at Lance Mannion
Guardians of the Galaxy: “Everybody’s got dead people.”
“I’m going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy!”: From left, legendary outlaw, a legend in his own mind, at least, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), vengeance-obsessed rage-aholic Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), bounty hunter and genetic experiment gone awray Rocket Raccoon (vo...
@LRC - contrails do reduce the day/night difference. 12 years ago this week, grounding all jets in the US increased the max/min spread by 1.1C -http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/020808075457.htm
Dimming & aerosols are a big part of climate today.(Which of course has nothing to do with icebreakers)
Commented Sep 12, 2013 on Pinpointing the minimum at Arctic Sea Ice
Pinpointing the minimum
UPDATE September 16th: Given another uptick and the current weather forecast, I'm ready to call the minimum for IJIS SIE V1 on September 12th at 5,000,313 km2. Apparently the high was too big and the pressure gradient too low to prolong things (see below). --- This blog post should perhaps ha...
With 2 tropical storms already, we're a month ahead of schedule in the Atlantic -
the norm is 2 by the end of July.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/#ori
Commented Jul 2, 2013 on Problematic predictions 2 at Arctic Sea Ice
Problematic predictions 2
This comment by long-time commenter Rob Dekker was so good and elegant that I decided to squeeze it in as a follow-up guest blog to the first Problematic predictions post. ----- In Bill's excellent overview of correlations here, he used 'area' earlier as a predictor for 'area' later (area->are...
Today's arctic ice extent number - 9.87338 - is down 385,470 km2 from yesterday. Pop?!
Commented Jul 2, 2013 on Problematic predictions 2 at Arctic Sea Ice
Problematic predictions 2
This comment by long-time commenter Rob Dekker was so good and elegant that I decided to squeeze it in as a follow-up guest blog to the first Problematic predictions post. ----- In Bill's excellent overview of correlations here, he used 'area' earlier as a predictor for 'area' later (area->are...
Does an extent drop of 495,000 kmsq in 4 days count as a pop?
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data
Commented Jun 27, 2013 on ASI 2013 update 3: the Arctic goes POP at Arctic Sea Ice
ASI 2013 update 3: the Arctic goes POP
During the melting season I'm writing (bi-)weekly updates on the current situation with regards to Arctic sea ice (ASI). Central to these updates are the daily Cryosphere Today sea ice area (SIA) and IJIS sea ice extent (SIE) numbers, which I compare to data from the 2005-2012 period (NSIDC has ...
Why divide by the number of terms if you're measuring the sum, not the mean? In any event, I think the real question is whether to assume the uncertainty among regions is independent, which seems unlikely.
Pay wall at AAAS is rather annoying.
Commented Feb 7, 2013 on CT SIA anomaly above zero at Arctic Sea Ice
CT SIA anomaly above zero
After all those negative records that were reported not so long ago (how many were there? I've lost count), it is nice to be once again given the opportunity to make known a positive record: Global sea ice area as reported on the Cryosphere Today website has been above the zero baseline for two ...
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