George Will has written an irresponsible article denying climate change (AKA global warming). Here’s the basic problem with George Will’s writing, as stated succinctly by The Wonk Room: In “Dark Green Doomsayers,�  Will attacked Secretary of Energy Steven Chu for discussing a worst-case sce...

Time for the next round in the controversy over George Will’s recent column for the Washington Post on climate change, and results reported/disputed by the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center. Here’s the relevant section from Will’s new column: As for the a...

We couldn't stay on the DL, anchoring the sofa, in a wave of wonderful power naps, without jumping in on this one. It came down today, that the New York Times was ending their subsidy of The Weekly Standard, gainfully, if not painfully, employing their editor, William "Little Billy" Kristol, for the...

So, our local NBC TV affiliate has a new website. You go to NBC4.com, and now it bounces you to NBCWashington.com. It's busy. It's boxy. It's hip. Reminds me of The Onion site (and that's not really a good thing for a legit news website, guys.) It's hyped frequently with short, hipster TV commercial...

Nintendo has plenty of stats to boast about this year, with DS and Wii holding the top two spots in hardware sales. 200k DS sold per day in Europe? DS and Wii hardware sales are over $5 billion? Read on for a fact-check of the 5 claims made at Nintendo's news conference earlier today. Claim 1: Europ...

Dear everyone getting all excited about the "Michael Stipe comes out" story: Um, this is news? Sure, he apparently told Spin that he'd "just never felt strongly enough about a particular relationship to say, 'Yeah, he's my boyfriend, that is what it is,'" but that claim would seem to be at least som...

Semi-fabulist Scott Beauchamp's wife, Elspeth Reeve, who was so fired a couple of months back by The New Republic , is quite the talker! She doesn't hold much back in an interview today with the Observer in which she discusses fact-checking her husband's dispatches from Iraq, both before and after t...