“So, how much do your co-workers drink, Mr. Selley?”

Chris Selley;

Embrace the ruthlessness, I say. What the Star is doing to Mr. Ford, Fleet Street’s newspapers have done to British politicians for generations, and there’s no time for sympathy. The careers they ruin are trophies for their mantelpieces and objects of jealousy for their competitors.

Actually, I can get on board with this – the moment that journalists stalk each other with the same predatory venom. The more journalistic careers left in ruin, the better. After all, in this day and age, a reporter is little more than a person who wants to shape public policy without going to the bother of getting elected.

Reader Tips

Tonight, legendary American songwriter Jimmy Webb (Wichita Lineman, MacArthur Park, Up, Up and Away, Galveston, and many others) teams up with Mark Knopfler to perform a song made famous in 1985 by a supergroup composed of Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson, who named their group after the song: here’s The Highwayman.
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Y2Kyoto: The Little Molecule That Could

From “global warming” to “climate change” to “climate disruption” to “global cooling” – any excuse will do when they come for your fuel;

NASA’s Langley Research Center has collated data proving that “greenhouse gases” actually block up to 95 percent of harmful solar rays from reaching our planet, thus reducing the heating impact of the sun. The data was collected by Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry, (or SABER). SABER monitors infrared emissions from Earth’s upper atmosphere, in particular from carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), two substances thought to be playing a key role in the energy balance of air above our planet’s surface.

Related“a carbon tax/fee is the key to controlling climate change.”
Update from Anthony Watts: “A misinterpreted claim about a NASA press release”.

You Think CBC Is Bad?

It’s not who ultimately owns the organization, it’s those they employ. This was the lead story on CTV’s “National News” March 27:

Canada only UN member to pull out of droughts and deserts convention
…documents show that the government committed to providing around $350,000 a year to the convention…
NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said the move risks further isolating Canada, by indicating that the government acts outside of “international norms.”..
Canada’s withdrawal from the convention will likely prompt more criticism of the Harper government’s handling of environmental issues…

Perspective:

…The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here…

Three hundred and fifty flipping thousand dollars makes the CTV top? Whilst so many focus on the horrors of Mother Corpse? Keep your eyes–and brain–wide open.

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