Science
- Via The Immoral Minority: Carl Sagan: A Universe Not Made For Us.
- via 3quarksdaily: Women’s Response to Alcohol
- Ark Park? What Ark Park? | Pharyngula
Economics & The Economy
- What Would a Sane Economic System Actually Look Like? : TreeHugger
- Paul Krugman vs. the White House: Stimulus edition – The Washington Post
- Economists explain 2011 in 18 charts – The Washington Post
- Budget Infographic
Politics
- The Maddow Blog – What Republicans mean when they talk about food stamps and millionaires
- House GOP takes a political beating in payroll tax fight – Political Hotsheet – CBS News
…The Journal’s editorial board wrote that, “Given how [Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell] and House Speaker John Boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the president before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest.”
- The Poor Rich and the Scrooginess of Congress | Common Dreams
- Rick Perry Admits He’s ‘Prone’ To Mistakes, Talks Religion Ahead Of 2012 Iowa Caucus
- Shamelessness and incompetence « The Reality-Based Community
- Review & Outlook: The GOP’s Payroll Tax Fiasco – WSJ.com
- The Eric Cantor Plan
- Capitol Stand-off: Republicans Caving? – ABC News
Politics — Mitt Romney
- Romney botches Iraq history – POLITICO.com
- Daily Kos: Mitt Romney unleashes yet another crazy lie about President Obama
Politics — Newt Gingrich
Climate & Climate Politics
- RealClimate: Copernicus and Arrhenius: Physics Then and Physics Today
- Scientists mark 1/3 of a century of satellite climate data
- “Sceptical” politics: responses to the non-scientific arguments made by the deniers « Watching the Deniers
- What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
- Letter: Global warming warnings prove too conservative | SouthCoastToday.com
- And some tepid climate change denial here: Conservatives’ Warming Skepticism Rooted in Environmentalist Hysteria « Commentary Magazine