Unanimous Cowherd

bio:Rapidly aging hipster father of two, who can't remember shit no more.

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Commented on Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
Comment on Ms Koerth-Baker's blog entry: looking at it quickly, I read it as "seven legit arguments against the reality of climate change" -- which is NOT what the SciAm article is about -- so I missed the fairly subtle...
Commented on Sarah Palin Parking Lot
Actually, the comments of these Palin fans don't make me laugh. The whole thing just makes me want to weep....
Commented on Demonstrating TSA futility by stabbing dead pigs with pens
So what happens if someone comes at you with a point-ed stick? Hmmm? Well? I thought so?!?!...
Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
I'm not saying that they should have destroyed the book -- but given the extent of their rule breaking from the get go (IANAL but deliberately keeping any books out of circulation for moral reasons seems about as defensible as...
Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
These two were clearly not the brightest bulbs on the tree, no? If they were so obsessed with keeping the book out of circulation -- why didn't one of them simply sneak it out of the library throw it away?...
Commented on To the anonymous gay teen who asked for help in a Boing Boing comment thread
Just adding another voice to the chorus -- you are not alone, anonymous, and you are just fine the way you are. I'm a dad who would be proud of any son or daughter who showed as much courage as...
Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
Re Jenny McCarthy and other celebrity anti-vax folks: did it occur to any of them that the autism of their children could have been due to something they did? I'd be much more suspicious of various legal and illegal drugs...
Commented on Anti-vaccine fear versus science
Ah yes, the argument from ignorance. Haven't you noticed how science works? How over time, more and more knowledge accumulates due to scientific research? How more knowledge leads to new questions, and more knowledge? Sure, using science we don't know...
Commented on Wild Mook: Japanese '80s fanzine devoted to American cops
When I saw the image, I flashed on a picture of a sumo wrestler downing a meal that would feed a family of six. I'm thinking that sort of supersize fetish plays into this as well....
Commented on Daily photos of a healthy cervix for one month
People, people, we are all animals. Just animals. We're just ground-dwelling monkeys living on a warm rock. I like this. Don't know why, just do. We need reminders of what we are. Thanks Cory....
Commented on Will a clean fridge get you laid?
I think those disparaging this guy (OCD! Neat freak! Wound too tight!) would never make HIS cut either. Sorry ladies, but some of you are real slobs as well. But, I bet there is a single woman (a hundred? a...
Commented on The US Government's bizarre obsession with Janet Jackson's nipple
Personally, I think we should give the nipple its own tv show: "The Janet Jackson's Nipple Hour" -- I mean, why not? Better than most of what's already on the boob tube....
Commented on After the big LA fires, terrain looks like a post-war moonscape: death, charred remains.
Wow. Watching that, I kept fearing that they would drive off the highway, what with all of the guardrails burned off. Freaky landscape. Thanks for sharing this. Ok, worse thought: what happens when next it rains? Those incredibly steep hillsides...
Commented on Cold-brew coffee maker
Once you go Toddy -- sorry -- we've been using ours for years. Love the flavor, makes hot or amazing cold coffee, and keeps for over a week, refrigerated. YMMV, of course....
Commented on Shel Silverstein's UNCLE SHELBY, not exactly a kids' book
"Uncle Shelby's ABZ" was my favorite as a child of 8 or 9. The book helped make me the man I am today. Which is a horrifying thought, now that I see it laid out in text. Totally a book...
Commented on Al Franken talks an anti-healthcare-reform mob down
My god people! Of course they were angry! It was obvious to a true Minnesotan like me. Didn't you see their beady eyes shifting in righteous indignation and distracting background music? Can't you read their passive aggressive body language, what...
Commented on Rachel Maddow interviews Tom Ridge on politicizing terror threat alerts
In the YouTube comments, several people mention how he "sniffs" after each lie. And he does. Repeatedly. Isn't that often a subconscious lie indicator? Or does he just have allergies?...
Commented on Crazy organic bread-slicer sign for crazy organic bread eaters
Actually, no, it is not crazy to believe that infinitesimal amounts of a pesticide might contaminate the bread slicer. It's not crazy if you also believe that infinitesimal amounts of homeopathic remedies actually affect your body. OK, so yeah, it...
Commented on Videos from an animal's perspective
For years I've wanted a video game that did this -- like Wart in the Once and Future King when Merlin turns him into an ant or fish ot whatever to learn about those cultures. Wouldn't it be cool to...
Commented on HOWTO defeat the Klan with humor and bravery
This video was amazing -- showing the power of love to change hate into understanding. Thanks for sharing....
Commented on North Carolina "sewer monster" is not a new Chris Cunningham video
Well, if this IS a viral ad for a new movie/videogame/breath mint, the vid makers are taking their sweet time in doing a followup. Which is what is making this one very delicious, at least for those of us who...
Commented on Life During Wartime video from Stop Making Sense
The Stop Making Sense DVD is our household cure after a bad day. Pop in the disk, crank the speakers to 11, and dance. Bye bye bad day. First time I saw this film was years ago at a midnight...
Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
@nutbastard - Um, OK, if the basis of your faith is "just in case" -- what's the point? Seriously. Would you really want to "spend eternity" knowing that another group of people missed the boat and were condemned to "eternal...
Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
And thank you #64 @planettom. You owe me a keyboard....
Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
Wow -- I guess lots of peeples don't likes Meester Dawkins. Surprising? Not especially. But jumping all over this camp for "indoctrinating kids in atheist fundamentalism" seems like a bit of a stretch. Especially since nobody here has (apparently) ever...
Commented on Father's day photo-shoot ends with cops pointing guns, photographer face down on tarmac
"I didn't fight to protect this shit." And there is the problem. This "shit" has been building up for the last 8 years, and most "old-timers" like the former military gentleman here mentioned have stood by or forgotten or actively...
Commented on Wails and Murmurs: Eating Couscous at the Chi-Chi's in Walla-Walla
Zsa Zsa Gabor?...
Commented on Zombie Little Ponies
Looks like "My Little Thestral" ala Harry Potter...
Commented on Media Matters: O'Reilly falsely claimed he only "reported what groups" were calling Tiller
This has me seething. O'Really has gone too far this time. He deserves to be prosecuted as an accessory to murder -- the public must demand that he face charges. Faux News should also face prosecution, unless they disown him...
Commented on Online Personal Narratives from Patients of Murdered Late-Term Abortion Provider
Utterly amazing thread -- thanks Xeni for posting. For additional narratives like those on Salon, see This Common Secret by Dr Susan Wicklund....

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Antinous / Moderator commented on Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
It's up to *you* to go over to ClimateAudit.org and read their blog postings. I'm too busy dealing with the skeptics over here who think that climate change is a plot by Nazi Jewish Communist Corporate Kenyan-born Reptilian New World Order drones to go there to check it out. My eye: mote. Their eyes: log. Your serve....
Carol Maltby commented on Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
"Skeptic" as a noun has been hijacked so often that it has become irrevocably tainted. It's not just in this context, but a wide range of issues. Sometimes it is the mainstream viewpoint that claims to be skeptics, sometimes it is the minority viewpoint that gets to label themselves as being the skeptics. We're all skeptical about one position or another -- we just draw the boundary lines differently according to the issue....
Slicklines commented on Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
NikfromNYC. I got as far as "Lindzen" (you know, the guy who--by his own admission--accepted over thousands from oil companies in the 90s, and likely got much more than that) before I began to wonder about how this all works. Some nasty e-mails escape from one side, and it means their whole theory is wrong, yet a shill for big oil (and underwritten by them still--again by his own admission) is not even questioned by you. Do you not see that his issues are every bit as large as the side you are decrying? He still works for the CATO...
NikFromNYC commented on Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
Slicklines wrote: "Some nasty e-mails escape from one side, and it means their whole theory is wrong, yet a shill for big oil (and underwritten by them still--again by his own admission) is not even questioned by you." I indeed question Lindzen's objectivity. His paper on feedback idiotically failed to discuss why he used outdated satellite data. His paper claimed strongly negative feedback. Using the updated data is merely shows neutral feedback. I was extremely angry when I learned this. However his work still strongly suggests that positive feedback does not exist in the real world and so AGW may...
Chrs commented on Climate Change: Countering the Contrarians
You have successfully cherry-picked data from a single site, one that it is specifically suggested may not warm according to global trends (changes to the Gulf Stream dominate British weather, which may fluctuate in ways that the rest of the world does not). Unless I'm missing something, this is a horrible argument. British deforestation got into full swing sometime during this period, and is likely to have had a large local effect. The data from the top graph is not significant in isolation, for comparisons to global temperature. The data here is comparing global temperature with an extremely local temperature....

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