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Vote for the worst piece of writing on climate change

Every year the Poor Man Institute gives out awards for a range of wanktastic behavior from the lunatic right. Highlights include the Chickenhawk of the Year award (for rhetorical courage), […]

Tennessee ash spill more than three times larger than originally thought

NYT: “Coal Ash Spill Is Much Larger Than Initially Estimated“ Initially authorities said there were 2.6 million cubic yards of ash in the pond, and 1.7 million spilled. Now they’re […]

American taxpayers help pay for coal sent to China

Lee Buchsbaum writes that U.S. coal producers increasingly find it more profitable to export their product: With the falling dollar, selling to Asia, Europe or South America is giving coal […]

Deep Christmas thought

Watching my kids’ absolute, uncontainable delight as they play with cheesy, old, used Star Wars toys that my wife and I Santa got off eBay, a thought occurred to me. […]

Merry Christmas!

A very merry Christmas to all you Gristians — if you celebrate it anyway. Hell, even if you don’t. Nothing wrong with being merry, right? In honor of the occasion, […]

Chrissie Hynde breaks up the concrete

Break Up the Concrete is a new record by Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders; Rolling Stone and numerous other reviewers have called it her best in years. Hynde has been […]

Animal rights v. climate mitigation

Ezra Klein: The carbon implication is that vegetarianism is best, but if people insist on eating meat, chicken is far better than beef. This puts the carbon argument at odd […]

A little of this and a little of that to carry through Chrismahannukwanzika

I don’t want to head into the holidays with a browser full of unattended tabs, so forthwith, the Great Holiday Tab Dump of 2008! This gets my vote for Most […]

Survey: Oil and gas industry leaders say the era of cheap gas is over.

The cost of oil has been a rollercoaster ride since the 1970s. Thankfully, we’ve hit a low in this season of recession, foreclosures, and a major Wall Street meltdown. But […]

Uh oh, looks like the news media is tired of getting played

“Senator, if there is a hoax, isn’t it this report of yours?” — MSNBC’s David Shuster, asking Sen. James Inhofe about his farcical list of 650 “scientists” that dispute the […]