“Stand With Hillary” ad, take two.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
For October, he had paid $376. For November, with virtually no change in his volume of work and without having turned up the thermostat in his two-room shop, his bill came to $788, a staggering increase of 110 percent. “This is insane,” he said, shaking his head. “We can’t go on like this.”
For months, utility companies across New England have been warning customers to expect sharp price increases, for which the companies blame the continuing shortage of pipeline capacity to bring natural gas to the region. […]
The utilities argue that they are hamstrung unless they can increase the pipeline capacity for natural gas, which powers more than half of New England. That would not only lower costs for consumers, they say, but also create thousands of construction jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue.
The region has five pipeline systems now. Seven new projects have been proposed. But several of them — including a major gas pipeline through western Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, and a transmission line in New Hampshire carrying hydropower from Quebec — have stalled because of ferocious opposition.
h/t Don B
New You Can Lose
Seven Insane Christmas Shopping Tips from the PC Police
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
Remember – as the cost of conventional fuel rises, these projects will become cost competitive!
Court documents confirm Toronto-based KPMG has been appointed as the receiver for Great Lakes Biodiesel (GLB), along with associated companies Einer Canada and Bioversel Trading.
It’s the latest chapter in the rocky history of Great Lakes Biodiesel, which opened the production facility in Welland at the end of 2012 to convert canola and soybean oil into biodiesel.
Luxembourg-based investment company Heridge SARL launched the court case because it says it was only repaid half of a $20-million loan used to get GLB’s Welland plant off the ground.
h/t John Galt
At Last, Bionic Lingerie
Professor Julie Steele has been investigating the movement of women’s breasts during physical activity for more than 15 years.
Reader Tips
Riding public transit is like inviting 20 random…oooh, look, it’s the Swingle Singers!
You don’t see that very often.
The comments are open for your Reader Tips.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb – Bomb For Iran … “he watches ESPN most mornings because he can’t deal with any more political chatter than he already has to hear.” (h/t TimR)
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Some writers, such as this Vox.com reporter and this education writer, are calling for the Washington Post to stop pursuing the truth in the Rolling Stone debacle. That’s one extreme. Another extreme is to pretend that Erdely and Rolling Stone are total outliers. They’re not. They were doing what untold numbers of other journalists and media outlets do every day. And they just didn’t cover their tracks quite as well as others do. Unlike The New Yorker’s Packer, we should think about whether we’re making Erdely and Rolling Stone scapegoats for widespread journalistic worship of narrative and advocacy over truth.
ISIS, The Inside Story
Brought to you by the Guardian, who are apparently, also on the inside.
Abu Ahmed was an essential member of the earliest incarnation of the group. He had been galvanised into militancy as a young man by an American occupation that he and many like him believed was trying to impose a power shift in Iraq, favouring the country’s larger Shia population at the expense of the dominant Sunnis. His early role in what would become Isis led naturally to the senior position he now occupies within a revitalised insurgency that has spilled across the border into Syria. Most of his colleagues regard the crumbling order in the region as a fulfilment of their ambitions in Iraq – which had remained unfinished business, until the war in Syria gave them a new arena.
An interesting article, nonetheless. (h/t Frank)
The Sound Of Settled Science
Mother’s Milk, Literature Sleuths, and Science Fairies;
I had that sinking feeling yesterday as I read a killer review. In the text the authors described an exciting dynamic; high food intake, high cortisol concentrations in mother's milk, and high activity in kittens covary while low food intake, low cortisol concentrations in mother's milk, and low activity in kittens covary. Neat. Tidy. Compelling. And there was a gorgeous figure to reinforce this awesomeness! Now, don't get too excited here, because, spoiler alert, none of this turns out to be an accurate representation of the papers they are citing.
Reader Tips
Tonight we view some surprisingly high-quality film footage from the turn of the last century: here’s Jamaica Street, Glasgow in 1901.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
“And as I played “Amazing Grace”, the workers began to weep…“
Live Coverage: Atlas V #NROL35 Launch
Scheduled for 7:13 Pacific. Livestream here
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“It’s pathetic hacks all the way down. This would be a firing offense at some papers, though.”
The Sound Of Settled Science
AUSTRALIA is lucky to possess the high-quality, 128-year-long tide gauge record from Fort Denison (Sydney Harbour), which since 1886 indicates a long-term rate of sea-level rise of 0.65mm a year, or 6.5cm a century. […]
Similarly low rates of local sea-level rise have been measured at other tide gauges along the east coast. National Tidal Centre records reveal variations between about 5cm and 16cm/century in rates of relative rise. The differences between individual tide gauges mostly represent slightly differing rates of subsidence of the land at each site, and differing time periods.
For example, measurements at Sydney between 2005 and 2014 show the tide gauge site is sinking at a rate of 0.49mm/yr, leaving just 0.16mm/yr of the overall relative rise as representing global sea-level change. Indeed, the rate of rise at Fort Denison, and globally, has been decreasing for the past 50 years.
I Was Saying This Just Yesterday
Democrats’ CIA gambit backfires. That story — condemn first and don’t ask questions because you might get an answer you don’t like — has resonated. All of this has cast the Democratic Party once again as the party that’s weak on (and unserious about) defense.
Update: Feinstein Torture Report Polling Badly.
In The Immortal Words Of Tasnim Aslam
“Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence”: Youth blows self up at Kabul play condemning suicide bombers
(h/t EBD)
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Reader Tips
It’s a bit too early for Christmas music, but the melody of tonight’s music selection evokes the season, somehow, at least for me; your mileage may vary. From 1954, here’s Erroll Garner’s bouncy I’ve Got To Be A Rug Cutter.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
All Cultures Are Equal
… the tradition of cooking albinos into potions is not a new one in Tanzania, and the parents of albino parents are forced to fear that, at any minute, a band of men may kidnap their children to sell to wealthy sectors of society for use in witchcraft.