Good news - from Mars

Mars appears to have had water for longer than conventional wisdom suggests - a good sign. Of course the geologist in me is annoyed that they don't specify if it's Opal-A or Opal-CT.

Novel place for stashing bribes.

Stuffing cash in her bra. This isn't 'prostituting the office' as the clothes stayed on. And because, you know, a politician removing her clothes for money would insult prostitutes.

Oh boo-hoo, Politico's lying out it's teeth again.

Politico's (D-DC) whole article is a giant piece of lying spin, but figured I'd link it all the same. Classic Leftist fabrication of "we're not biased because we're saying we're not biased". Kind of like saying you're not a thief when you're caught walking out of the house with an armful of stuff. In a fair world Harris and VanDehei would face tar, feathering, and being run out of town.

But to these half-wits having to cover for their corruption is an annoyance!

Before answering the question, indulge us in noting that the subject of ideological bias in the news media is a drag.

Imagine that, people like we commoners having the temerity to demand a free press are a drag on our masters. Silly me.

It's a sad world when we'd find fairer coverage of the news at Al Jazeera than in places like the Politico.

John and Jim, do us a favor and ditch the Kool-Aid.

Obama urges you not to go to work election day.

Disregarding that voting takes a few minutes and polls open before and close after normal business hours, arrogant Obama wants you to tune in and drop out. Never mind the billions of dollars in lost production, it's more important that Marxist Obama's North Koreafication of America begin right away. If He doesn't make His birthday a national holiday in the first year I'll be amazed.

Of course no plans are without merits, even one as amateurish as this one. By staying home from work you get an early taste for the grinding, long-term unemployment you'll experience if even a fraction of His policies are enacted. After you ditch work to vote for the novice Obama I suggest you go stand in line at a soup kitchen then spend the night in a homeless shelter. That way you'll know just what you voted for.

Besides, your vote was already cast by ACORN - probably more than once too. Obama had to get some return on the $800,000 and organizational advice He sent to the group.

And now for something completely different - Halloween Costumes of the Damned.

Cracked.com provides a list of costumes that, frankly, if you see at a party you should just call it a night and go home. You'll be happier and the police will appreciate one less missing person.

Newspapers and endorsements.

Instapundit links an article showing which papers endorse whom this year and compares it to last cycle. It's a neat map and is of especial concern for the seventeen remaining newspaper readers in America.

Hope you don't plan to retire.

Yup, your 401ks are fair game if Obama wins. I'd add some snarky comment here, but really how can I top the Democrat concept that citizens are servants of government? It's farce made substance.

And, naturally, this would just be the start. There's always more planned by these idiots.

More data on CO2 in the atmosphere.

This excerpt talks about how the optical depth of the atmosphere hasn't changed in 60 years. That pretty much kills the man-made global warming myth. Of course undoing three decades of misinformation and reclaiming the journals like Science is a much rougher task.

H/T Fresh Bilge

A few papers due and I fall behind.

Typical of grad school, a couple of papers come due at the same time and there's no time for side hobbies like this journal. I need to work on fixing that.

Think you know about climate?

It's no real secret within the sciences that the "Anthropogenic Global Warming/Man-made global warming/global warming/global climate change" hysteria is just that, hysteria. Many scientists are proponents of it because it brings them funding and it matters little that the science itself doesn't back their position.

That said, if you're interested in the facts of the matter I recommend reading the four-part letter here.