Wut-woh, one of the people who Herman Cain allegedly sexually harassed is reportedly seeking the thumbs up to tell her side of the story. And since Cain has commented on the issue, repeatedly and with no small degree of confusion, she may now have a legal basis to do so: [Read more…]
The Kentucky GOP gubernatorial nominee David Williams unloaded on his democratic rival, Gov. Steve Beshear, for attending a Hindu religious ceremony last week which involved prayer to what Williams seems to feel is the wrong magic invisible sky wizard: [Read more…]
This what the titans of Wall Street have wrought through the use of nifty derivatives like Credit Default Swaps. I’ll explain one interesting, catastrophic feature of those items below the fold. Meanwhile the government of Greece is falling apart: [Read more…]
I want to thank all of you who helped make October the best month ever for Zingularity and a huge success for FreeThoughtBlogs. Zingularity recorded just shy of 80,000 page views, a 50% increase over last month. FreeThoughtBlogs came in just under 5 million hits. I can’t think of any other site in the last two years that has had that kind of blockbuster start followed by almost exponentiual growth. It suggests to me we are building a solid brand and, best of all, that there’s a real appetite for healthy skepticism and legit science.
Herman Cain’s lack of comprehensive campaign structure and experienced advisors may be showing in the wake of sexual hassement allegations. He had ten days to prepare a response for the story and yet he’s contradicted himself again and again in one day. Josh Marshall put up this timeline on TPM for crowdsourcing: [Read more…]
Dogged by allegations of sexual harassment, Herman Cain broke into song at the National Press Club today, and no, this apparently isn’t a joke. It really happened and the man can carry a tune, but it’s still painful to see. Video below the fold. [Read more…]
Landsat 7 shecmatic, similar to one of the satellites that may have been hacked
Officials have responded to a story leaked from a NASA report last week about a satellite that was hacked, and speculations of Chinese involvement:
Speaking at a news briefing today, China Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said claims that China was behind the hacks, which occurred in 2007 and 2008, are “untrue.” The spokesman added, according to Reuters, which attended the briefing, that China is “also a victim of hacking attacks and will oppose any form of cybercrime, including hacking.”
Speaking of the allegations directed toward Mr. Cain, do not read this if you don’t have a crude, childish sense of humor. This is your last warning, don’t go below and then come whining to me in comments or email that it was insensitive, or caused your emotional pain because you were involved in the real deal. [Read more…]
Reports are swirling that GOP front-runner Herman Cain was involved in two sexual harassment cases back in the 90s and the alleged victims were paid off: [Read more…]
Results from the Berkeley Earth project data fits existing NASA and NOAA temperature records like a glove
I told you so! Writing at Watts Up With That, Ira Glickstein — excuse me, Doctor Glickstein as he conspicuously attached a Ph. D. to his user name — eagerly sleds right down the slippery slope I mentioned yesterday to conflate snow with evidence against global warming. [Read more…]