Vicarious Politics

Nobel Farce Prize

October 12, 2007 @ 7:47 am

If the Nobel Foundation had any respectability left, it lost it when Al Gore and the IPCC were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work on climate change. Before this it had already been plain that the awarding of Nobel Prizes, the Peace prize and others, were highly political. How else can both Hayek [...]

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Bruce Willis on Late Night: An Unappealing Hunch

July 24, 2007 @ 8:05 pm

Did anybody catch the Bruce Willis interview on David Letterman’s Late Show a while back? The one promoting Live Free or Die Hard? Willis, who I’ve heard is an atheist, came on the show wearing a wind turbine “hat” and proceeded to make fun of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. At one point he joked [...]

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PETA and Terrorism

July 10, 2007 @ 11:31 am
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The (Un-)American State of Minnesota Says No to Foreign-Made US Flags

July 5, 2007 @ 6:46 am

“The American state of Minnesota has announced that all US flags sold in the state should be of American manufacture, and warned violators of the law, that they would be punished by a 1,000 dollar fine, or imprisoned for three months.” Lest you think this was some kind of misguided attempt to be patriotic, ignorant [...]

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More Ad Hominem and Attempted Suppression of Dissent by CAGW Mindguards

May 24, 2007 @ 3:50 pm

Is there nothing leftist global warming activists won’t do in an effort to censor and silence critics? Desmogblog.com has posted a letter by Laurie David to the University of Virginia, urging it to fire Patrick Michaels for accepting money from coal interests and coal-burning electric utility companies to help support his research, advocacy and consulting [...]

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Sorry, Sheryl, I haven't a square to spare.

April 23, 2007 @ 6:53 am

Sheryl Crow wants to ban excessive toilet paper use. Will the idiocy and immorality of environmental alarmists never cease? Now Sheryl Crow apparently wants to ban people from using too much toilet paper. (Here’s the BBC on it.) Sorry, Sheryl, one square, or even three, just aren’t enough. I’ll use however much I damn well [...]

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