Extinction History

Berkeley looks at the history of species extinction in North America.

Maintaining the Myth

Maintaining the myth of Obama the good, the noble and prince of peace is getting tougher for Madison Avenue now that Goldman Sachs' golden boy has been caught with his pants down so many times on Wall Street. But Nobel prizes and other trappings of phony philanthropia aren't enough for the bankers' buddy to bamboozle us any more. Soon, as former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown remarked, they'll have to get the Pope to make him a saint.

Hats Off to Hastings

The screwball Christian Legal Society wants public universities to subsidize their private bigotry. Hats off to UC Hastings School of Law and the Ninth Circuit for not abiding with this nonsense.

Grande Finale

Hearst Newspapers (San Francisco Chronicle) launched its cover for Obama and Wall Street today by suggesting his appearance at the conference end signals a "happy ending to the climate finale". A happy ending to Wall Street, of course, has nothing to do with environmental sanity or humanitarian resolution. Naturally, the Bamababies will fall all over themselves swooning to more empty promises and false hope from Goldman Sachs golden boy.