Month: August 2006

Well, while much of the media may be declining to make connections between (not draw conclusions from, but make connections between) the heat wave and global warming, others are not so reluctant. The heat wave, it appears, has convinced Christian conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson of the reality of climate change. Reports Reuters: “We really need…

How hot is it? It’s so hot that … it almost makes you think of global warming. But not so much for the mainstream media. Interestingly, it turns out that the media are now giving significant coverage to global warming. Whether this is just a spike because of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, or the recent…

It’s a small thing, really. But so long as the Bush administration is going to help the super-rich out by lowering and lowering and lowering tax rates on the rich — income tax, capital gains tax and the estate tax rates — is it too much to ask the rich to actually pay those taxes?…