Monday, December 31. 2007
 Remington will buy Marlin
If you haven't read this Fred bit, it's good. Bipartisanship to "get things done"? I agree with Ace: terrible idea. The less govt does, the better for us citizens. Excellent short piece on the subject by Roberts at Cafe Hayek. Alibis for sale. Surveillance and the threats to privacy in the West Outsourcing pregnancy The NYT makes no sense on immiration. Protein 75% of Al Qaeda in Iraq destroyed. Katha Pollitt (who's that?) loses it about Kristol going to the Times; wonders whether the NYT is closet neo. Sheesh. Hey George Bush: Stay away from Brattleboro. The Sheriff has a warrant fer yiz.
Sunday, December 30. 2007
 A good two-day hunt in New Hampshire. Snow on the ground but we found a few good grouse coverts especially in the marshy alders.
P.J. O'Rourke rips Arthur Schlesinger. Who wants a country run by people who lunched at Mortimers? Planet hysteria. Dr. Sanity More on Faulkner: His famous 1950 Nobel (brief) speech. News flash: funny weather on the way! Related: SUV sales up. Good. they will help fend of the coming Ice Age. Whales are deer? Viewfrom the Right. Hey, I'll believe anything scientists tell me. Tell me to eat broccoli, I eat broccoli. Tell me to eat meat, I eat meat. I do what I am told. Not. Is this entrapment? Patterico Is Spain unraveling? Gates. Youngest daughter: "Duh, Dad. Everybody knows that." The Fred Blogburst? I am on board. A perspective on trade. Damn interesting. Cafe Hayek The EU Constitution scam. TCS. Does this have any legitimacy at all?
Saturday, December 29. 2007
(Our News Junkie is away hunting this weekend.)  Capital punishment and New Jersey's misplaced priorities. Malanga in City Journal
"Does my bomb look big in this?" Mr. Free Market Bill Kristol to the NYT? Peggy Noonan only asks for a "reasonable person" in the White House. Same here. Brit Islamists celebrate Bhutto assassination. Also, Bhutto death will stabilize Pakistan. Also, Bolton considers US role in the Pakistan mess. Also, was Bhutto a "splendid con" ? Remind me: What's a principal-agent problem? Getting repetitive here: Hillary lies about Bhutto The Annual Nanny Awards. h/t, Alphapatriot How to talk to your child about Jamie Lynn Spears A non-grim milestone reached. Warming crisis means more kittens in Toronto. How can that be? It hasn't happened yet. (h/t Small Dead Kittens) Maybe they can feed the cats to the Polar Bears. Cowboy walks into a bar...Theo Santa photo captured by our Brit cousin Mr. Free Market last week. Let Santa into your house and you never know what might happen because he is a jolly old elf.
Friday, December 28. 2007
An anti-nutritionist screed. Asst. Village Idiot It's the Year of the Potato! For me, every year is the year of the potato. Does Mrs. Clinton buck the spirit of the 22nd Amendment? Scrappleface has a take on that. Oldest tavern in Britain. h/t, Samizdata Study: FOX News most balanced Whatever happened to separation of mosque and state? Bhutto: Without the "pious nonsense" The 10 climate myth-busters of 2007. Junk Science Identity studies for everyone! Now it's Age Studies. Are these people for real?
Thursday, December 27. 2007
 Al Qaeda claims "credit" for Bhutto assassination.
The good housing news: homes more affordable. Is there a single person in America who didn't know that the housing bubble would burst? Related: The banking business model that came and went. Investing in Iraq. Insty When were you saved? LaShawn Moustache of the Day. h/t, Norm Most over-rated and under-rated book of the year. Derbyshire Second link in one day about Al Sharpton. TNR. With all of the serious black commentators and thinkers out there, why does the MSM pick this vaudevillian self-satirical con man to be a black spokesman? Is he supposed to be their tap-dancing entertainer? NYT wants a new socialist welfare state in New Orleans. I guess they miss Huey Long. Peace in our time, revisited. Plus a news flash: Brit Libs do not feel morally superior to Taliban. Hmm, maybe they aren't... Related: 180,000 in Germany willing to be suicide bombers. "...the cause of anti-racism perpetuates racism. It’s one of life’s bitter little ironies." Indeed. The Taxes of the Times: NY Sun Record snows this year. Don't every say I didn't warn you about the coming Ice Age. I thought abortion was going to kill off all the Liberals. Global warming will drown all of the Conservatives. The man is sick. "Nothing better to worry about?" When in the course of human history has mankind been so healthy, secure and prosperous that national political leaders, scientists and the media elite worldwide could be preoccupied with a theoretical crisis predicted to occur 50 years hence? Controversy continues to rage over Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory, most recently with a minority Senate report citing 400 eminent scientists, yet it's worth reflecting on what this debate means about the human condition at the advent of the 21st Century
The corollary to this preoccupation with hypothetical dangers 5 decades hence, of course, is that there is not one imminent threat to western nations that demands our immediate attention. Not one human soul is, or ever has been, in immediate danger from Global Warming.
Whole thing at Am. Thinker The two-fer problem: Dick Morris. It is beginning to look like Bill is running for another term. Israeli Arabs prefer Israel to Palestinian State. Duh. Who wouldn't? Bush understands Brave New World. Good on him. Gov. Spitzer has a solution to the NY malpractice escalation. As usual, he's come up with a humdinger. It reminds me of the California plan to tax hospitals to pay for medical care.
Benazir Bhutto assassinated by suicide bomber. See Drudge for details. A sad day, but not surprising. It is just more proof that Jihad isn't specifically anti-Western - it's anti-freedom and anti-democracy, anywhere and everywhere on the planet. Freedom and democracy are admittedly Western ideals, but many in the rest of the world, with aspirations for human dignity and self-determination, are drawn to them. However, if one is a devout Moslem, it is my impression that it is one's duty to convert and control the world either by submission (dhimmitude, as in Europe) or by blood, and then to provide theocratic rule. "A clash of cultures." Mrs. Bhutto was educated at Harvard and at Oxford.
 Whither the Conservative coalition? Blankley
Mutual exploitation: Sharpton and the MSM Praise for Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism There's a lesson in this: Eliminating traffic signals improves driving safety. How to get a real person on an automated phone message. Buying stuff people cannot afford. 7 medical myths. Tammy Everybody always bitches about their election choices. If they were voting for a Messiah, I would understand that, but they are just voting for an executive politician. Sowell discusses the field. Sailing to the Galapagos Islands. NYT. I would do that. Quoted by Sen. McCaskill at Polipundit: “Why is it that hundreds of bar owners can be sanctioned in Missouri every year for letting somebody with a fake ID have a beer, but we can’t manage to sanction hundreds of employers for letting people use fake identities to obtain a job?”
Micro-lending: a good deed for the world's poor. Should states be permitted to require an ID for voting? Former French ambassador warns of the "suicide of Europe". Related: Muezzin callling from minaret in Oxford. "The only thing more over-rated in education than teacher creativity is student creativity." RWN Read the Pajamas bit about "culture being a massive sham perpetrated by rich capitalist oppressors"? The lexicon at the end is amusing. Politics vs. Good Cheer. Jonah Goldberg Those crafty Jews: Their soldiers don't rape Palestinian women for a sneaky purpose
Wednesday, December 26. 2007
 Illegals self-deport - but to where?
Brit smoking ban kills pubs. Now people are drinking at home, alone, where they can light up a cigar. Who in the UK deliberately voted for such a Nanny? There are two Christmases. Quite right. One of them is Saturnalia. What's So Great About Christianity? Am. Thinker Just war, the UN, and Iraq. Asst Village idiot Tortoise Thompson? Tony Snow interviewed at Reason What exactly is Hillary Clinton's experience? Perhaps she is pumping the experience theme because there isn't much of it, which is a weak point. John Kerry - unprincipled pimp Christmas in Bethlehem The persecution of Christians in Moslem lands Those tiresome manipulators. Dino The Dem racist history they want you to forget. Opinion Journal, A quote: The Republican Party committed a great public crime when it gave the right of suffrage to the blacks. . . . So long as the Fifteenth Amendment stands, the menace of the rule of the blacks will impend, and the safeguards against it must be maintained." - The New York Times, 1900
A critique of George Bailey. What I Saw in America. Fair enough, but Scrooge-like, Dr. Pat: it misses the reason the movie brings tears to our eyes. Massachusetts health care plan is a mess. Of course. You can use teh power of the State to make me insure my car, but leave my body alone. Related: The untold story of the disaster of French medical care. What American accent do you have? I have Northern Inland. All I want for Christmas is an EU-approved slurry tank. I guess the EU doesn't believe in the nitrogen cycle, in which animals eat the stuff, and then recycle it by pooping it back on the fields. Business success must be stifled. No Pasaran. It's just not fair to the losers in the sport. "Culture" is a sham perpetrated by the rich to oppress their poor victims. Pajamas. No doubt. Those despicable rich are the only people who want filthy lucre. A clever solution to restaurant and bar smoking bans. The imaginary coming Recession. It might happen, and it might not. Like global catastrophe. Dems try to cut eachother's throats at Christmastime. Some people like dogfights, some like cockfights, some like streetfights, and some like politics. Bare ruined choirs. Europe's empty cathedrals. American Thinker Why is Greenland ice melting? After all, the ice sheet is growing in Antarctica. I want our federal government to have less power and less money. Nevertheless, these Laffer data should please governments, from Willisms: 
Monday, December 24. 2007
 Why legal immigrants come to America. Anchoress.
George Bush's excellent year. Kudlow The Peace march in Baghdad. Gateway Reintroducing beavers to Scotland. h/t, Englishman. Next on the agenda: snakes to ireland? Is it really all about Bill? Maureen Dowd, via Lucianne. I am sick of these people. In 2008, the US will become the world's largest consumer of wine. Speaking of which, The Art of Drinking Well. A Jew responds to "Merry Christmas." h/t, neoeneoneoneo How to read the newspaper. Sippican Al Quaeda's quagmire. Small Dead Little Cuddly Animals Virtual Science. We have frequently noted that no meaningful "climate change" has occurred yet other than random variation. An ex-Greenpeace guy discusses the hysteria. As we remind our readers frequently, the real threat to civilization will be the next Ice Age, about which we will be able to do little other than to drive our SUVs as much as possible, hoping it will make a difference. "Mr. Bush has bought into some of the Beltway's most useless climate superstitions." Sisu Free Mark Steyn! Sign me up The Star, at American Digest, which begins: Theirs was the Age of Myth; a world where night was not clad in the web of lights that now obscures the stars. It was a world lit by flaring torches, dim oil lamps, guttering candles, the phases of the moon and the broad shimmering river of the Milky Way. When the sun went down and night ascended, life withdrew into homes. Only the very rich or the very poor were abroad.
Read the whole thing. A holy and merry Christmas to our readers. God bless you all. Your NJ will be back on duty after Christmas.
Sunday, December 23. 2007
 Postmodern Cold: Asst Village Idiot
DC has a new schools Chancellor, and she is kickin ass. Opinion Journal. Godspeed to her. Environmentalist supports a whale fishery. Tony Blair converts to Catholicism Will the climate hucksters take us to the cleaners? A blogger in Cuba. Video at Babalu Four Revolutionary battle flags come home to the US. No choice. Hillary had hoped to run as herself, but it didn't work. Now she has to run for co-President. Captain Ed Compulsory voting in Australia. Norm. Sounds utterly insane to me. And if somebody is running for an uncontested seat, it's like Saddam Hussein or Russia. My old hippie friends. NE Republican, which has a great new look Department of Sartorial Intimidation. Powerline An interview with a former ACLU lawyer, mainly about the ACLU's war on religion Sacha Baron Cohen is killing off Borat. I'll miss Borat. Saudis plan world's largest SWF: 900 bn. Is Al Gore God? London: Capitol City of the World. Looks like NYC is #2. Photo: The Wellfleet, MA First Congregational Church sits on a hilltop overlooking the harbor. It has curved pews and rings ship's bells instead of landlubber time.
Saturday, December 22. 2007
 Photo: Christmas, 1944, from Dr. X's endless supply of vintage photos. It is captioned: "San Jose, Mindoro (Philippines); 2nd Field Hospital: Sgt. Edward F. Good helps his friend Pfc. Lloyd Deming with a leg of Christmas turkey."
Jules' questions for Al Zawahiri. Mine: can I call you "Al"? George W. Clinton? A Bolton interview at Gates California's Health Plan proposes to be supported by a tax on hospitals? "Change" and "hope" are simply cynical political tactics Tyranny of a minority. Tangled Web This just in: Global warming isn't happening anymore Murdered cities: Done with Mirrors Just an excuse to take your clothes off Guns don't kill people - ham sandwiches do. Also, Four year-old dies from epidemic The greatest gift? Sex. Also, Why females make noise during sex The real Man of the Year: at Gay Patriot Publishing while Catholic. The Corner. More at Catholic Insight A war reporter is not a nature reporter. Neoneo Hillary is a world-class genius. Says Bill. Related: It Takes a Village (to write a book). Also related: Kinder, Gentler character Assassination Old forests are killing Gaia. They are also of no use to songbirds or to Ruffed Grouse. The Met's marvellous year. Who benefits from the Federal government? More on those climate scientists who dispute the IPCC reports. More at Small Dead Reindeer.
Friday, December 21. 2007
CT Principal bans "competitive activities" during recess. I wonder if that rule includes "rock, paper, scissors"? How to win at rock, paper, scissors. h/t to somebody, but I forget to whom An Oklahoma State University bans the word "Christmas." Brilliant idea, certain to be popular. Of course, what these morons do not understand is that Advent is the religious time. Christmas is just a party. If you are an angry enough person to hate Jesus, then ban Advent. And Lent. Virtual Legos. h/t, David Thompson Bonuses surging on Wall Street? Hillary Clinton launches two different Obama attack websites on the same day. I guess that's a Merry Christmas from Hillary to Barry O. A critique of Edward Said's Orientalism. NY Sun What happens when medical care becomes politicized? Dem Project Race horse genetics: less important than people think God is a conservative and Santa is a liberal Michael Savage vs. CAIR. Cinnamon Putin has 40 billion bucks. Not bad for an altruistic servant of the people. I'm glad somebody has the time to worry about the mental health of worms Zimbabwe introduces the "kajillion dollar bill"
Thursday, December 20. 2007
 Is Theo blogging again? Inquiring minds want to know. (Photo of Mrs. Claus from Theo.)
Archbishop of Canterbury claims nativity "a legend." When you take the laws seriously, illegals go home. Polipundit Men who look like old lesbians. h/t, David Thompson. How can we compete with sites like that? Charter schools get top grades in NYC Santa receives fire in Brazil. I did not know that Rio was one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Conrad Black got revolutionary justice. I agree. Stanford credit for Harry Potter. How about for reading Dr. Seuss? Or watching Gunsmoke? Evil Border patrol oppresses innocent Mexicans Government as Santa: Hillary video at Althouse. Unintended self-satire. Huckaboom = conservabust? I'm sure he's a fine fellow, but he is a goober if I ever saw one. These are the sort of quotes that make me like Fred. 400 climate scientists now dispute global warming. NYT decries media deregulation. Of course. Every large voting group in the US opposes illegal immigration. Red wine prevents colds.
Wednesday, December 19. 2007
 Is alimony obsolete? Dr. Helen
Not repairing the AMT? Blue Crab Iran's new friends in the Americas. Dino Infra-red art photography. Good Communists and Bad Christians. Dr. Sanity English-speaking in England's schools. Tangled Web The rich pay for the federal govt. Adopted kid finds his real mother at his workplace, working the register at Lowes. More on the Inquisition in Canada. Attack machine
Tuesday, December 18. 2007
You've read this already, but since we did link the original Princeton story (with a hoax warning), this is for the record. What a jerk. The guy is as bad as the AP or the NYT.
 Green Fascism update: Tom Friedman drinks the warming Kool-aid. More on Friedman at Powerline. The Socialist legacy of Bali at Patterico. Also, Mayer Hillman says:
“When the chips are down I think democracy is a less important goal than is the protection of the planet from the death of life, the end of life on it,” he says. “This has got to be imposed on people whether they like it or not.”
to which Protein Wisdom comments: Scrape away some of the high-flown rhetoric of the acolytes of the Church of Anthropogenic Global warming and it is easy to see a coterie of fashionistas, retooled Marxists, doe-eyed relativists, unrepetant misanthropes and pragmatic authoritarians.
Geography quiz at Flares. Ruled Britannia? Kimball Iraq launches a new tanker. Surber Greedy selfish boomers will bankrupt America Is "Clinton amnesia" coerced? Classical Firearms dilemma, at Mr. Free Market: Left-handed rifles are rarer than rocking-horse sh1t.
Do Christians mind being called "barking bonkers"? Not really. I just read somewhere that 30% of Americans identify themselves as evangelical Christians. Justice done for wounded and injured soldiers. How to become a virgin. LGF  The US Army considering Israel's micro-Tavor. (photo on right)
Not dead yet? Fidel is retiring, he hints. Why do people buy individual stocks? Prof B on McArdle Is waterboarding really all that bad? Tammy
Monday, December 17. 2007
 Mitt on Meet the Press. Althouse
The violence at Princton. NY Sun. The Sun doesn't mention the rumors that this might be a hoax. A kinder gentler Hillary? Blue Crab Bali and the media. Dino Media were equally biased against Reagan. Willisms The poor farmers and the Farm Bill. Driscoll Hamas: Jews creating earthquakes. Video at LGF Al Gore's unpleasant habit of denouncing the US when overseas. Moonbattery
Sunday, December 16. 2007
 Yes, we do have a very fine storm today, and the natural snow is piling up at my local ski area - Jiminy Peak.
Jesus wasn't homeless. Steyn on demographics of aging, 30 year-old Italian Romeos living with Mom and Dad, and the "don't have kids to save the planet" silliness. Good stuff. h/t, Lucianne Six major bogus stories from the MSM within six weeks. Gateway. How are our readers doing with that simple geometry problem? It's good fun, unless you're a serious math whiz. Same old Russia. Putin incarcerating dissidents in psychiatric wards. Republicanophobia. Mrs. Edwards is "scared." She would not be so scared if she met me. Guns don't kill people - Christians do. I was going to ignore the newspaper endorsements, since everyone else is linking them, but Jules has a good take on them. Cherry-picking data points to create alarm about an income gap. View from 1776. Dishonestly fueling envy for political purposes is low. Somebody needs to tell the NYT that 1) We Americans aren't Commies and 2) Who cares what other people make? I don't want their money - I want to do what I chose to do. The 10 Economic Media Myths of 2007: Dem. Project Today's Hillary Quote: "You know, I'm going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I'm going to start thinking of her as a human being." - Hillary Clinton, from the book "The Case Against Hillary Clinton" by Peggy Noonan, p. 55
Saturday, December 15. 2007
 Weather: Arctic freezes in record time. New study: No man-made global warming. And read the Open Letter to the UN re the IPCC. All dissent was prohibited. Meanwhile, Repubs want to get on the warming issue to look virtuous. I guess it's all about posing, isn't it?
Jonah Goldberg at UMass: ...I must say I can't remember visiting a campus where the leftwingness seemed more intense or pronounced. And I've been to a lot of campuses.
From Insty: YALE'S REALLY RICH. TOM SMITH OBSERVES: "I have thought of asking Yale to stop writing and asking me for money. But why should I? I like getting the letters. They fill me with a kind of awe. They remind me that greatness comes to those who dare to ask for more than anyone can possibly think they deserve. They fascinate me. What can they possibly say to make me think I should send what $50, $100? to the people who are making 28% a year on $22.5 Billion? They say they need the money, which cannot be true, except in the sense of me and the beggar. I am astonished."
Opie likes this guided tour of Art Basel Miami. Jumping all over the CIA will make them more cautious and less effective. And more about the waterboarding story at Family Security Matters.
Friday, December 14. 2007
 Where's the Rock? The Hall of Fame is running out of candidates.
A Moslem approach to difficult teens. SDA Arkansas tackiness? Powerline. Huck: Tacky. Hillary: Tacky and corrupt. She might be as dishonest as Bill. After all, doesn't water seeks its own level? Al Gore, swindler? God knows, he is getting richer and fatter, and looking like becoming a plutocrat. A young Brit's Road to Damascus A Munich flavor to the NIE? David Warren Harvard for free? Fay Vincent in Opinion Journal The legacies of the Duke Case, at Durham in Wonderland. h/t, David Thompson. Yes, it is a systemic problem. Who invited the dog? Family allergy holiday fun, at The NYT Today's Hillary Clinton quote: "I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe "-Hillary Clinton in 1996," from the book "I've Always Been A Yankee Fan" by Thomas D. Kuiper, p.6 Derbyshire quoted in a piece at Powerline about Nativism: The U.S.A. has an immigration system, under laws passed by the people's representatives in Congress. For twenty years the federal government, for reasons to do with ideology and "interest," has failed to enforce those laws. As a result, tens of millions of foreigners have settled in our country unlawfully, while other foreigners who wish to settle here but respect our laws, wait long years in their home countries for permission to enter. A great many Americans are very angry about this. If you were to poll those angry Americans on the topic of legal immigration, you'd get all sorts of answers, from severe-restrictionist to couldn't-care-less. The center of gravity of the answers would probably be somewhere like: "Sure we should have immigrants, but it should be done legally, properly." The anger, the shouting, the jammed Congressional switchboards, the cable-news bloviating, is about the federal government's failure to enforce federal law. To glibly dismiss it all as "anti-immigrant" is gross propagandistic distortion. . .
Photo: From Theo, who is now on sabbatical
Thursday, December 13. 2007
 This planet has had plenty of catastrophic encounters with asteroids over the years, even in recent times.
Wikipedia notes, in the thorough entry on Impact Events: An impact event is commonly seen as a scenario that would bring about the end of civilization. In 2000, Discover Magazine published a list of 20 likely end of the world scenarios with impact event listed as the number one most likely to occur. Until the 1980s this idea was not taken seriously, but all that changed after the discovery of the Chicxulub Crater which was further reinforced by witness to the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 event. Since then there has been more interest from the scientific community and greater public awareness of the possibility of impact events.
Most impact events are small, like shooting stars and meteorites, but the Apophis asteroid is big, and it is due to come too close for comfort in 2036 If it hits the earth, as others have done in the past, it will surely solve all the problems with humans messing up the planet. Help us, Obi-Wan Algore! You're our only hope.
"As a Republican, I'm on the fringe." Being a conservative in academia at WaPo. h/t, TigerHawk Everything's coming up Bush. Jules Crittenden Why you cannot treat war detainees like domestic criminals. Wizbang The Economist addresses the rising cost of food. Hillary quote of the day: "Where is the G-damn f***ing flag? I want the G-damn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise." -From the book "Inside The White House" by Ronald Kessler, p. 244. (Hillary to the staff at the Arkansas Governor's mansion)
Wednesday, December 12. 2007
We are expecting a nice, good snow here in Yankeeland. Judging by the radio, you'd think it was the end of the world. "Major storm" and all that. Global snow catastrophe. It's just snow, folks. Nice stuff. Lovely, gently falling like a good dream, covering hill and dale with a pure coating of white. It's wintertime, and it will melt by May. Sheesh. If I lose my internet connection, I'll just go out and find my own stories. Or make them up, like The New York Times does.  Image: A pony keg kegerator. A nice gift for a beer-guzzling spouse, parent, or pal. They also make full-sized for more serious beer afficionados, for whom a pony keg is just a warm-up.
Hey Gals! Whoring for health! I will charge you only a nominal fee for practice sessions, and I am clean, trim, young and single. Call me if you are cute and clean, with no body piercings. (h/t, Mr. Free Market) Comp USA shutting down. Too many doctors? Kevin, MD. No. This jerk wants to fly all over the world warning about global oblivion. No, it's not Al this time. Half of women want to change how their partner looks. Only half? What about vice-versa? 99%? h/t, Pajamas A Brief Primer on the Problem of Evil. h/t, Dr. Bob PM Brown suggests negotiating with Taliban. Ace. Great idea! How come nobody else thought of that? Huckabee displays a strange misunderstanding of forgiveness. School voucher success in Florida. h/t, Chequerboard The religion of peace. Moonbattery Led Zeppelin coming to NYC?
Since we're speaking of global warming today, check out this chart. The red line shows the average annual temperature in the northeast United States, while the blue line shows the average number of home runs hit per game in Major League baseball each year (the graphs have been overlaid for convenience of comparison). Graphs are science, and the two lines clearly track together: the gradual warming of the first half of the century moving along with the end of the dead-ball era; a slow cooling as home runs declined from the 1950s to the 1970s; then a spike in the late 80's and 90's, with the warmest year all time (1998) the same year that McGwire and Sosa were chasing the home run record. My conclusion is that while Al Gore is definitely right on about the warming caused by CO2, we also need to do something to cut down on the number of home runs hit if we are going to get this runaway warming under control. Maybe controlling steroid abuse can help. Regrettably, we heard nothing about this critical subject from the soccer-oriented and baseball-deprived attendees at the UN Bali conference this week. (Related: see our piece on monomania) 
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