Back in August, the founder and CEO of Whole Paycheck Foods pissed off quite a few of his customers with his right-wing screed on health care reform in the WSJ. As it turns out, this op-ed wasn’t the product of a quirky, idiosyncratic independent, but rather, a fairly typical wingnut, as we learn in this week’s New Yorker.

While most of the media’s attention has been elsewhere, the Pentagon has stated what anyone with a brain should know by now — that global climate change is a clear and present danger which needs to be included in any threat reckonings.

Sarah Palin, once again illustrating “the audacity of dope”.

General interest readers in America, apparently, can’t be expected to face the fact that our Congress is not only ruining our own country, it is ruining the globe.

Ben Bradlee weeps.

Idiocy, we all anticipate it by now.

After reading this post by Bill McKibben at TomDispatch, I found myself amazed anew at the global warming deniers and cautious incrementalists who would gamble with the health of the planet rather than risk any reduction in corporate profits or wasteful excess. And I wondered, what would this resistance look like if the threat were something more obvious, like a giant meteor?

After a series of debacles, the WaPost should’ve barred George Will from ever writing about climate change again, but I guess, in the wake of CLIMATEGATE!11!, he can’t help himself.

Good rule of thumb. When you’re writing admiringly about a total nutter like Jim Inhofe, you’re probably a total nutter yourself.

Boxer refused to give in to Republican obstruction. Fed up with waiting for the Republicans to stop their boycott, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed their climate and energy bill without a markup, sending the chairman’s mark directly out of committee.