New Study: Public Transport is Worse For Environment Than You Think

June 9, 2009

Public transportation — bad for the environment? That’s unpossible! But according to environmental engineers at the University of California at Davis: “These are hidden or displaced emissions that ramp up the simple tailpipe tally, which is based on how much carbon is spewed out by the fossil fuels used to make a trip.”

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Christopher Buckley Tells Republicans That Joe Scarborough Is Their Future

June 9, 2009

Christopher Buckley, as Timothy Noah has pointed out, has by his own admission not voted for a Republican presidential nominee in nearly a decade. But he thinks MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough is the future of the GOP because he “comes across as a profoundly likeable and reasonable man. Reagan Lite, you might even say.” Very lite.

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Megan Fox Breaks the Hearts of a Million NASCAR Fans

June 9, 2009

In an interview overseas, Transformers starlet Megan Fox intones that, if she could bend the ear of the villainous robot Megatron, she’d ask that “instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?” Here’s a clue, Megan: they’re called “moviegoers.”

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Obama Responds to Sliding Approval Rates on Economy, Accelerates Spending

June 8, 2009

Johanna Neuman on POTUS’s economic policy difficulties: “Unemployment just hit 9.4%. Republican critics [argue] that the president’s massive $787 billion stimulus package is just not working. And latest Gallup Poll shows that only 45% of Americans now approve of Obama’s handling of federal spending, and 46% approve of his handling of the federal budget deficit.”

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American Conservatives Shouldn't Learn From David Cameron

June 8, 2009

American conservatives can learn from David Cameron and their Tory brethren: they can learn by not following his lead. They shouldn’t just wait for their opponents to make a god-awful mess of things, holding out hope for the evil of two lessers. Instead, the American center-right should spend the next few years focused on new applications and solutions for the country, so that if they once again regain a majority in Washington, they’ll actually know what to do with it.

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Geeks With Libraries: Scan Your Books and Search Them on Google

June 8, 2009

The interesting part will come later: “Right now, Google is merely matching your books with the books it has already digitized for search purposes only. But once they know what books you own in print, the next logical step is to sell you a digital version of the book and related books.”

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What do 2009 Races in New Jersey and Virginia Mean for 2010?

June 8, 2009

The real first test of Barack Obama’s coattails as President will be in two states he won handily, but currently feature surprisingly capable Republican candidacies. In New Jersey, anti-corruption reputation is boosting Christopher Christie; in Virginia, Attorney General Bob McDonnell is unimpeded by locality and can appeal to moderate constituents. Should be an interesting fall.

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AOL's Politics Daily Editor Embroiled in Controversy Over Playboy, Writer Firing

June 8, 2009

When old journalism meets new journalism, there’s always going to be problems. AOL Politics Daily Editor Melinda Henneberger claims she never read, let alone deleted, a piece about the now-infamous Playboy controversy last week which apparently led to the firing of longtime lefty writer Tommy Christopher. Her story makes sense. Problem: there are screenshots.

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The Prius Didn't Kill GM: Mickey Kaus on Detroit's New Green Delusion

June 8, 2009

Kaus: “Lutz can’t possibly be enough of a moron to believe that the Prius and its “halo effect” are a primary reason for Toyota’s ascendancy. Toyota has been ascendant for at least three decades, and GM declining, for a simple reason: Toyota built cars that worked at a time when GM built cars that didn’t.”

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Four Ministers Planned Weeklong Resignations: How Cabinet Blairites Plotted to Topple Brown

June 7, 2009

As the UK government stumbles toward its inevitable failure, new reports detail how Hazel Blears, James Purnell, John Hutton and Caroline Flint “were part of a group of Blairites that met secretly for months and tried to co-ordinate last week’s resignations.” Business Secretary Lord Mandelson delayed the coup with an email, but only just.

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