Peter Risdon

Headline:
Survey: Scientists Agree Human-induced Global Warming is Real
Report:
A group of 3,146 Earth scientists surveyed around the world overwhelmingly agree that in the past 200-plus years, mean global temperatures have been rising, and that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures.

I hate to take issue with his Eminence, but no, it’s only too believable.

You’ll have to re-subscribe to the feed, I think, but Tim’s blog is back online.
UPDATE: The Feed is back too.

Scots
The Englishman and Shuggie don’t normally agree, but they agree that Scots is a dialect of English. It isn’t really. At least, not of mainstream English. It developed from northern Anglo Saxon independently of the southern English language. That’s because the Anglo Saxon settlements stretched deep into modern Scotland.
So can we have that land back? [...]

Couldn’t be bettered. Cello-scrotum hoax from J. F. Beck.

… if consumers really do buy organic products because they don’t contain synthetic chemicals then why? Why the hell do you care whether your ammonium sulfate was ripped off the side of a pristine geological formation or synthesized in a factory? Are you just stupid?

“The Washington Times notes today that many of the recipients of federal bailout funds are also major political donors.”
This is not so much a stimulus, as a massive transfer of wealth from the politically unconnected to the politically connected.
Instapundit.

The ritual of smudging can be defined as “spiritual house cleaning.” In theory, the smoke attaches itself to negative energy and as the smoke clears it takes the negative energy with it, releasing it into another space where it will be regenerated into positive energy.
This theory is passed on to us by Phylameana lila [...]

Little Wing: