Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Everyone knows you can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theatre, and you shouldn’t.
Everyone knows you can yell “smoking gun mushroom cloud” on the Tee Vee, but you shouldn’t.
The New England Journal of Medicine examines a somewhat more difficult situation. Can you put Dorothy Hamill on ice skates and sell that drug (one of [...]

Well. I made it through my daughters wedding on Saturday night. All of the worry and work and planning that was done by my wife and daughter paid off. It went over even better than we had hoped. But when the food and the alcohol is free and the place is air conditioned what can the guests [...]

What is that music?

I spent a few minutes checking through some various outlets today. I saw Keith Olberman, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Kos, Atrios, and John Cole all slamming hard on Democrats over the war vote and on ethics.
And I was cheering them on.
If these guys don’t wake up soon, I would hate to be [...]

You’ve gotta be kidding.
If you can do this what could you possibly be afraid of?
 
 

This Week in the Unending War on Rachel Carson (a uu, by the way).
A Time puff piece on Al Gore. Just when you think that Time has sold out completely to the right, they go and do something like this.
Climate Change for beginners, including a nice section of links to refutations of climate [...]

The SO sent this to me yesterday. Since I’m still not up to the work involved in the post I want to do about various moral theories, I’ll just embed a link to this and go to work:

Ed M. at Captain’s Quarters uses the personal relationship between Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell as a jumping off point for a brief note about seeing the humanity in your political enemies and behaving in a manner consistent with that practice.
A brief note: I added Captain’s Quarters to my RSS feeds just so I [...]

Wow! I was this close to taking the bait. Some misanthrope has been phishing with Monster.
The sender got the e-mail past Norton’s spam filter - not a terrific feat in itself, but a good first step. The e-mail was formatted perfectly with the familiar logo and style scheme. Got my first and [...]

If you’re from here, you’ve probably seen this guy around. If you’re from a comparably sized or larger community, you’ve probably seen someone like him. Better check the list folks.