Local contrarian Russ Steele has a blog post up plugging a "What do you know about global warming?" quiz.
I went through the first few questions, and there's a hole in its logic that you can drive a Prius through.
Can you spot it? First person to do so gets a free coffee (from me) at Java John's.
(to make this one easy, here's a hint)
Stale blog offering Perspective on ideas, issues and life from Nevada County, California - belaboring the obvious since 2003
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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A window into Russ Steele's comment moderation on this issue:
ReplyDeleteI made a comment at his blogpost, replying to another local contrarian. Part of my comment survived Mr. Steele's moderation, but the following part did not:
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(Reminder Greg, explication request over at Pelline's - link)
(please answer there)
(though "please" does translate to "no way in hell will I", for some...)
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(it was replaced with "Snip, we are not here to promote Jeff P's web site.")
(and my subsequent comments on that thread, replying to commenters, have not appeared; though since Steele's blog is on Typepad, which reputedly has an insidious comment-eating bug, it's hard to tell a deliberate thumbs-down from an automated one.)
ReplyDeleteI saw that the first question agreed that Global Warming was a real phenomena, so I figured I didn't need to read any more.
ReplyDeleteLikewise, a comment I left there (link) saying that comments I'd left there haven't appeared, did not appear.
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