Link-O-Rama

Global warming is one of those topics that waxes and wane depending more upon what other items are in the daily news cycle than what the actual temperature is at any particular time. If there isn't a beer summit, talk about a "learning moment", a particularly gruesome murder or Megan Fox saying another stupid thing, then the Global Warming stories come out of the freezer of the news rooms and we are subjected once again to hair-on-fire stories about migrating whales not knowing whether or not to turn left or right when they get to the Equator because of the suspected rise in the water temperature or ducks not flying south for the winter because the weather in Canada at the beginning of winter has suddenly become a balmy 34 degrees.

Here are a couple of stories dealing with Global Warming. One taking a look at the theological aspects of the theory and the second having to do with the unintended consequences of legislative idiocy:

Global warming is the new religion of First World urban elites

Getting Around the EU Ban: Germans Hoarding Traditional Light Bulbs - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

As our town-criers will never let us forget, Senator Edward Kennedy is a physically ill man. It is almost as if we have been put on notice that we should be on a death-watch and we should stand that watch with the same sadness and sense of the passing of a great fount of wisdom that Socrates' students had when they witnessed his death by hemlock. But we should not let this anticipation of the death knell for Senator Kennedy blind us to the fact that he was, and is not, a particularly good or wise man. His passing will be a sad thing for his family and friends, but the nation will have lost nothing more than an old-style Boston politician who was a bully, a shallow thinker and a man who took upon himself (and was granted by a fawning press) the characteristics of a Medieval
baron; a womanizer, a drunkard, a bellowing buffoon, a perpetrator of manslaughter. And like many of the worse barons of old, Senator Kennedy has never really done anything to earn his position except have the right family connects and the right name. If he had not been of the magic litter of old Joe Kennedy (much of whose wealth was made through boot-legging) he would have ended up as a local ward heeler at best.

If the above appears rough or cruel, just keep in mind Senator Kennedy's treatment of Judge Robert Bork. Mr. Bork has shown himself a good and honorable man, a much better than the man who destroyed his reputation in the public's eye.

Here's a link to a story recounting the Chappaquiddick affair that showed Senator Kennedy's true character:

Chappaquiddick Revisited by R. P. George and D. Quinn on National Review Online

Here is another story of the "My Husband is an Uncaring Lug Who Doesn't Talk to Me the Why I Want Him To, But I Love Him Anyway" type. What's different about this one is that it appears to have been written under the influence of something:

My husband is a snail and I can't whisper - CNN.com

So there you go.