At long last, Ms. Coulter, have you no decency?

One of my challenges as a blogger is setting appropriate boundaries which do not reward hate with links and attention. Sometimes it’s unavoidable, and we cannot ignore when it happens, but my preference is to respond in quiet ways that help build a consensus of rebuke.

I will pass the microphone keyboard over to Skippy and allow him to introduce Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards.

Update: I think the Anonymous Liberal does a good job of explaining what happened. And yes, we are giving attention to someone that I’d rather not; it will help her gain more notoriety and she will not go away soon: with George Bush in recession she is the new face of the Republican party.

Let me emphasize this, no one is a “faggot.” The word means something to be set on fire. It is hateful, and it is not a neutral term.

Update 2:

Hat-tip Minor Ripper.

Climate control

Greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, have a certain “half-life” in the atmosphere before they are eliminated by natural processes, such as by plant respiration. When the production of new greenhouse gases has equilibrium with the elimination of circulating greenhouse gases, the climate is kept in balance.

Much discussion of reducing and controlling global warming has focused on how we may regulate the production of new greenhouse gases, and we must do so or we could never eliminate them quickly enough to prevent their building without limit and turning the earth into a place uninhabitable to humans.

It would also be helpful to begin encouraging the reduction of circulating greenhouse gases by broad based home agriculture. One green plant can reduce the carbon footprint of one person by a significant amount. If climate science has taught us anything, it’s that small changes over a large population make a huge difference.

Mathematics

And a buried reference in the words of this song, leads to this.