In honor of Earth Day (on Sunday) this open thread is all about Al.
On the Island of Doubt, James Hrynyshyn explains Al Gore and Framing or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Scientific Data.
Gore opts out of a weekend with Bush Buddy.
Gore home finally given green light. And you thought Atlanta zoning was a tough sell? Try going solar in Nashville...
Speaking of Atlanta. Local Earth Day celebration include electronics recycling and a showing of, you guessed it! A free screening of An Inconvenient Truth in Magnolia Hall in Piedmont Park.
Creative Loafing has a great list of local activities.
What will you be up to for Earth Day?
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I hear some people still under the delusion of "rumors" of Obama attendance were sorely disappointed, and others notable names in the know canceled on their commitments, when the political messiah skipped out on Morehouse's Earth Day last night.
Seriously, people, touching the hem of his vestments does not cure leprosy. Let it go already.
In other news, where am I supposed to find maroon and burnt orange clothing?
Is the GA Session over yet?
Can we get a low down?
Gore was down at GA Tech on Wednesday. I wonder where he's spending E-day?
House just overrode Sonny's veto on the Budget. It now heads to the Senate.
House just overrode Sonny's veto on the Budget. It now heads to the Senate.
Latest: Senate won't take up House override. Showdown is over.
And the house is asking the Supremes to step in a clear up the constitutional issue of it possibly being an illegal override of a non-existent veto.
For any Democrat willing to pay, I can probably whip out a few stump speeches in under an hour.
That bit of news, Grift, deserved the double post for emphasis. I'm hopelessly uninformed about the latest goings on under the gold dome, but what's the deal with that?
I think James Hrynyshyn misses one of the greater truths of cognitive science, science, in that people don't think based on facts, they think with frames and metaphors, sort of the way a computer uses programs like Word or Quicken. I think it's the job, though, of journalists to incorporate the work of the scientific community and not the other way around, much the same way the religious community should incorporate the science of the times into it's system of mythology and not the other way around.
Disgusting comment by Whitehead less than a week after VA Tech shooting:
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/blogs/entry.php?id=1127
"prominent Republican State Senator Jim Whitehead (also from the Augusta area) "joked" that UGA is run by a bunch of liberals, and if it weren't for the football team, he'd just as soon somebody bombed the school out of existence"