You can now follow my twitter feed in the sidebar column. While I don’t mean to downplay the awesomeness of this, my Twitter updates are not what I was referring to when I alluded to my best idea ever.

My best idea EVER.

Girls Aloud won the 2009 Brit Award for Best British Single last night with “The Promise.”

I put it at #2 in my Top 50 of 2008. I could’ve easily made it #1. I don’t see myself ever getting tired of that song. It’s amazing.

George Will had a funny way of arguing against global warming in his Sunday column. I agree with Nate Silver at 538 that Will is usually “fairly intellectually honest,” and he’s probably my favorite conservative columnist, but when you go around spouting stuff that’s verifiably not true in a flimsy self-serving logical construction, you’re going to run into problems.

Silver tackled that right away in George F. Will Takes on Science, Loses Credibility, pointing out the factual problems with Will’s claims. Turns out, it’s worse than that — Will flat out misquoted an article from Science magazine that essentially argued the exact opposite of which Will claimed it did.

Talking Points Memo added “…it took us about ten minutes — longer, it appears, than the Post’s editors spent — to figure out that Will … was essentially making stuff up. Both of Will’s major “data points” fall apart after a moment’s scrutiny.” They are awaiting return calls from Will and the Post.

The Cato institute’s decision to hop on the anti-reality Will bandwagon prompted Matthew Yglesias to elaborate on the difference between classical liberalism with modern libertarianism: Continue reading →

In a post titled As the World Turns, with obviously no awareness of the extra level of irony that carries here in Nebraska, a Dish reader in Kansas City pointed out the local paper’s inclusion of a same-sex couple:

I glanced at the newspaper laying on our office conference table, and it was open to the traditional Valentine section highlighting local couples and their stories. This particular paper was the Sun Tribune, which is a local weekly based in North Kansas City, a typical inner-ring, old suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.

It’s not the “hip” section of town, or a trendy place. This is where people live when they want to save money and don’t really want to be in the middle of the city. This paper is not the “alternative” paper in metro Kansas City, it’s normally read for its coverage of local high school sports.

One of the couples highlighted was a gay couple, but there was no focus on the fact they were gay. Their status simply said “married”, just like some of the other couples, and they discussed their wedding in Vancouver as part of their story. Apparently, a section of Missouri that voted narrowly for John McCain thinks gay marriage is no big deal. The fight may be over sooner than you think.

But to the World-Herald, acknowledging the existence of these couples is offensive.