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March 20th, 2007

Wayne Besen on The Daily Show

Wayne BesenWayne Besen’s parents and my parents have been friends for many years. The last time Buckley and I were in South Florida to see my parents, we went to spend an afternoon with the Besens in Miami Beach. (Wayne was in New York.) Buck and I are somewhat older (and stodgier) than Wayne, and I admit I bust his chops when I think he’s out-of-line. Sometimes the things he says or writes make me cringe, but most of the time he makes me proud to know him just the same, and the video below made me laugh. This video is a segment from Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, and may be a little “out there” for some of our regular viewing audience, but the rest of you will likely laugh hysterically like I did. Way to go, Wayne!
[Note: Comedy Central split it into two parts, so you’ll have to watch them both — you’ll just have to!]


March 20th, 2007

Scientists muzzled, Congress told

In the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald:

The Bush Administration has run a systematic campaign to play down the dangers of climate change, demanding hundreds of politically motivated changes to scientific reports and muzzling a pre-eminent expert on global warming, the US Congress has been told…