Today, on the 47th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights event officially billed as the March on Washington For Jobs & Freedom, a group of the premiere race-baiters in the country will gather on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Dr. King delivered his famous speech calling for an end to segregation and the beginning of economic justice (hence "Jobs").

When we last left our hero the year was 2009 and he was contemplating a move with his Norwegian wife and two half-breed, all blond, girls from the wilds of Norway to the United States. At the time, the concern was crazy politics and moving to a system that was far different than Norway. A year later things have changed.

Right here, my conservative friends, is where it begins:

 of Dr Curry (and Lord Monckton). And this diary is strictly for fans of blog theatre!

For a few weeks now, there have been a series of fairly trenchant critiques of climate change sceptics on Real Climate. Most notably in recent weeks was a pretty pointed takedown of the critique of the "hockey stick" - with the usual suspects for and against in the comments threads.

BP and I were discussing this issue in another thread, which put me in mind to explain the complexity of issues surrounding corruption and bribery here. And perhaps this concept is necessary to understand, given the recent protest over the disclosure of poor aid utilisation.

As a New Yorker, I can't say I've ever been much impressed with Mike Bloomberg as mayor - no particular animus; I think he's as good a Mayor as the City is likely to get - but outside of his high-handed repeal of NYC's term-limits law, I can't say that he has done anything particularly noteworthily good OR bad during his tenure. Until today.

Under the title "Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege," Senator James Webb (D., Va.) says what no mainstream Republican politician would ever dare to say:

I've spent a long time trying, as a layperson, to get to the bottom of the so-called "hockey-stick controversy". Essentially the controversy itself died a fairly natural death in the literature after most of the premises about the controversy were shown not to have been germane to the issue.

The following has received enough attention, lately, that I won't even bother providing links:

I'm curious, for people who've had em, whether or not they regret the decision, and why.

I'm curious, for folk who haven't, whether or not they regret not having children, and why. 

I'm asking in part b/c I've got a g-friend who wants children. I'm not against the idea - the older I get the more often I have warm thoughts about kids, but am uncertain overall. So this is relevant to my life somewhat, but I'm also just curious about y'alls personal lives 'cause I'm generally nosey.