Chris Clarke

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Name: Chris Clarke
Date registered: 29 September 2011
URL: http://coyot.es/crossing/

Latest posts

  1. Did a bat land on you at the Kelso Depot in the Mojave Desert? — 7 May 2013
  2. Confession time: dental hygiene edition — 5 May 2013
  3. Fortunately for Matt Yglesias, Lindsay Beyerstein only leaves him in a metaphorical smoking crater. — 27 April 2013
  4. It’s Matthew Yglesias’ world: we just get blown up in it. — 24 April 2013
  5. Also, I know I’ll probably get flamed for this… — 19 April 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other — 252 comments

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Apr 07 2013

Relax, everyone. It’s only a metaphor.

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Environment, Ethics, Evil, Media, Stupidity

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The Telegraph’s environment denier James Delingpole wants us to know he really doesn’t think environmental scientists and journalists should be executed: Should Michael Mann be given the electric chair for having concocted arguably the most risibly inept, misleading, cherry-picking, worthless and mendacious graph – the Hockey Stick – in the history of junk science? Should …

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106 comments

Apr 04 2013

A note to my friends, family, colleagues and readers of color

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Media, Politics

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Joan Walsh doesn’t speak for me. I mean, I get her. I get the fear, the desire not to be lumped in with those bad other people who do the bad things. I get the desire to continue to enjoy the privilege of not having to think about my race day to day. I’ve been …

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Apr 02 2013

A way to strike against denial of abortion rights in Kentucky

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Abortion, Politics

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PatrickG posted this deep in the Lounge, where only the bravest, thickest-skinned hordelings venture. So I’m amplifying his signal. my partner is relentless. She keeps saying things like “you always talk about this site and how they’re so supportive of abortion rights, HIT THEM UP!”. And by hit you up, I mean it’s Abortion Access Bowl-a-Thon time! …

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24 comments

Apr 02 2013

Good thing she didn’t call him a pedagogue

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Fuckbrained assholes, Liars for Jesus

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Another item for your personal Ray Comfort trophy collection via the Global Secular Humanist Movement Religion Is A Joke Facebook page. [Updated: or even better, via fredericksparks]

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70 comments

Apr 02 2013

My morning so far

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Environment

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Cough myself awake. (Fifth cold in the last six months.) Dodge call from collection agent. Make coffee. Note I’m out of coffee, reassess budget for earlier trip to grocery store. Read the below-quoted about myself in comments in this article about divisions in the environmental movement: What we don’t know, is how much oil and gas/ …

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45 comments

Mar 31 2013

‘Dude, trust me; you do NOT want to go in there.’

Categories:

Open Thread, Religion

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Caption this photo.

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246 comments

Mar 30 2013

Caturday!

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Ecology, Organisms

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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff person happened to be in the right place this week to document a confrontation between two puma cubs and a band of five coyotes at the National Elk Refuge near Jackson, Wyoming. There are more photos. (No sad kitty trigger warning needed.)

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41 comments

Mar 28 2013

It’s Not Just the Internet. It Never Has Been.

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Culture

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What Emily Finke says: “Oh, the anonymity of the internet makes people behave badly!” “If we just used real names, there people wouldn’t be as vicious.” “Oh, that’s just 20-something guys in internet chatrooms. That’s how they all are.” On the contrary, the viciousness we see, isn’t just a side effect of the internet. It’s …

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129 comments

Mar 27 2013

Here I Stand; I Can Do No Other

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Culture, Technology

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I weigh in on Google Glass at KCET. The gist: Some of us come out to the desert to escape the Panopticon that life in the city already is, increasingly. In Los Angeles, Google Glass might be just one more increment of invasion in a landscape already thoroughly colonized by surveillance cameras, red light cameras, random private …

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Mar 25 2013

Gizmodo fails again

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Deserts, Environment

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There’s a whole lot wrong with this Gizmodo piece on the proposed Palen Solar Electric Generating System. In fact, the fuckup per sentence ratio is higher than in any piece I’ve seen this month outside of Mercola.com. The Solar Energy Zone “Initiative” wasn’t “signed into law” by Obama — it was a record of decision …

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