January 22, 2008, 9:35 am
On Sunday, CBS claimed that Antarctica is melting. In fact, once small
portion of the Antarctic peninsula is warming and may be losing snow, while the
rest of Antarctica has not been warming and in fact has been gaining ice cover.
The show visits an island off the Antarctic Peninsula which has about as much
weather relevance and predictive power to the rest of Antarctica as Key West has
to the rest of the United States. Absolutely absurd.
Unfortunately, I have a real job and I don't have time to restate all the
rebuttals to the CBS show. However, I took on the Antarctic
issue in depth here, and this post at NC Media
Watch has more.
May 1, 2007, 10:01 am
How many of you think you could get out of jury duty to go fish?
Senior U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King,
overseeing jury selection for a civil trial at the Key West courthouse,
asked prospective jurors if anyone had cause to be excused...
A third fellow stepped forward and said his name was James Johnson.
He knew the importance of jury duty, he said, but he had a special
houseguest and, please, if he wasn't really needed, could he be excused?...
King looked at him funny. ''Did you coach?'' ``Yes.''
''Where?'' King asked.
Miami Dolphins, Dallas Cowboys, University of Miami, Oklahoma State. He rattled off others -- Iowa State, Wichita State.
''That's enough,'' said King as folks in the courtroom laughed. By then, the judge realized it was Jimmy Johnson....
Johnson, 63, an Islamorada resident, told King his houseguest was Bill Parcells, who recently retired as Dallas head coach. He planned to take the Big Tuna fishing.
King excused Johnson, but not before asking him to predict the Gators' record for next season.
Looks like Urban Meyer is probably safe from jury duty in this court too.
