Just Links

Almost two years ago a woman was arrested in Melbourne when customs officers heard suspicious “flipping” noises emanating from beneath her skirts. I remember it, because I blogged it. At last, the case has come to trial, but the report that alerted me does not give details of the sentence. She’s doing nine months.

Ok, so they ignored my request to investigate the cost of using subsidized water to grow biofuel feedstocks, but I’m not bitter. The good folks over at Environmental Economics do a splendid bit of stiletto-work on who’s funding whom. Author Tim Haab says: I’m not saying one group is right or wrong here. I’m just [...]

Ah, the bliss of an economic Christmas.

“While the political and/or economic topics discussed herein could be very important, it’s also possible that they don’t matter jack squat because the world as you and I know it is about to be parboiled.” I mean, why get agitated about a U.S. nuclear strike on Iran if we’re all going to die in a [...]

Below please find the two lead paras of a Guardian story filed last week. Thanks to Frinktank. I have no comment whatsoever. A Vatican official has said the Catholic church will excommunicate a medical team who performed Colombia’s first legal abortion on an 11-year-old girl, who was eight weeks pregnant after being raped by her [...]

[tag]Communicatrix[/tag] may be breaking new ground in the what-to-blog-if-you’ve-nothing-to-blog-about realm. Not content with that old standby of blogging the search terms people have used to find you (as I am) she’s sharing the sites she has Stumbled Upon using the fine Firefox extension of that name. Of course she has a reason: A part of [...]

Astounded by the news (via Harper’s Weekly) that one of the poor saps whose AOL internet searches had been revealed for all the world to see had been looking for easter cookie recipe for jesus’ suffering,” I popped that sucker into Google. And you know what? There is such a thing! One of the commenters [...]

There’s an aspect of Jim Hansen’s piece on global warming in the New York Review of Books that I missed. The intro says: Jim Hansen is Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. His opinions are expressed here, he writes, [...]

Anyone got a cheek swab? There’s a minor frisson of excitement about Salvino Madonia, the Italian mafioso who has been permitted to get his wife pregnant by artificial insemination. While I’m not all that sure about his resource-holding potential, I am far more intrigued about a couple of other aspects of the story. To whit: [...]