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So what, pray tell, does a grownup like Camille Paglia think of the global warming boomlet?
… I voted for Ralph Nader for president in the 2000 election because I feel that the United States needs a strong Green Party. However, when I tried to watch Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” on cable TV recently, I wasn’t able to get past the first 10 minutes. I was snorting with disgust at its manipulations and distortions and laughing at Gore’s lugubrious sentimentality, which was painfully revelatory of his indecisive, self-thwarting character. When Gore told a congressional hearing last month that there is a universal consensus among scientists about global warming — which is blatantly untrue — he forfeited his own credibility. …
New York’s weather in April is on a pace that could possibly yield the lowest April EVER topping 1874, the coldest on record. God does have a sense of humor.
WSJ and Jonah Goldberg at National Review got lotsa nice things to say about McCain.
In case you missed it, The Corner and the Captain post on the embarrassed Katie Couric.
Today Howie Kurtz informs us that Katie, sweet, sweet, Katie ripped off someone else’s work for a personal commentary (more in the Media Blog). Kurtz writes:
Katie Couric did a one-minute commentary last week on the joys of getting her first library card, but the thoughts were less than original. The piece was substantially lifted from a Wall Street Journal column.
CBS News apologized for the plagiarized passages yesterday and said the commentary had been written by a network producer who has since been fired.
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Very good Robert Samuelson piece from Newsweek on the coming ‘Boomer’ drag on the economy.
John Stossel notes the growing practice of naming buildings after politicians while the crooks are still alive.
Power Line post introduces an article by David Ignatius about the controversy over a 60′s Soviet defector thought by many to be a disinformation effort by the KGB.
… What larger purpose did the deception serve? Mr. Bagley argues that the KGB’s real game was to steer the CIA away from realizing that the Russians had recruited one American code clerk in Moscow in 1949, and perhaps two others later on. The KGB may also have hoped to protect an early (and to this day undiscovered) mole inside the CIA.
Take a stroll with Mr. Bagley down paranoia lane and you are reminded just how good the Russians are at the three-dimensional chess game of intelligence. For a century, their spies have created entire networks of illusion — phony dissident movements, fake spy services — to condition the desired response. Reading Mr. Bagley’s book, I could not help thinking: What mind games are the Russians playing with the West today? Which leads to Pickerhead’s efforts to set the record straight in a debate about Zhukov’s accomplishments.