Category: The Dish

Some really cool photos.

You’d think, wouldn’t you, that it would be much more energy efficient to use a single, reusable, rewashable, ceramic cup – rather than dozens of disposable styrofoam versions. But it’s not as easy as that. What about dishwashing? Yes, there’s been a study:

The results are extremely sensitive to the amount of energy the dishwasher requires for cleaning each cup. Hocking’s choice for the dishwasher, requiring 0.18 MJ/cup-wash, is barely less than the manufacturing energy of the foam cup, 0.19 MJ/cup. If Hocking had chosen even a slightly less energy-efficient dishwasher as his standard, then the reusable cups would never have broken even with the foam cup.

A reader writes:

On the day the charges against the Duke lacrosse players were dropped, one of the biggest most sensational legal stories of the year, I eagerly awaited Nancy Grace’s comments (though not expecting much in the way of introspection or humility). Instead she didn’t even show up for her nightly TV show, sending in a guest host instead. The next night Nancy was back, but made not a single mention of the Duke case, much less any sort of mea culpa. What a coward.

This is not, I’d say, a surprise.

They’re both punting on a simple question: whether they support South Carolina’s ultrasound-before-abortion bill. This is not about Roe. It’s a simple policy question for various states. Where do they stand?

A review of the book cited here.

National Review’s Corner has yet to mention the bombing yesterday of the Iraqi parliament or the destruction of a landmark bridge in Baghdad connecting Sunni and Shiite districts. Off-message, I guess. Like the entire war.

I’m not the first conservative to be cast out as a "liberal" by the National Review crowd. Clive Davis remembers another from Sam Tanenhaus’s bio.

[Whittaker] Chambers was sounding precariously like a liberal. So be it. He had wearied of ideological battles. "I have scarcely an interest in invective tags." His prevailing interest was simply to "grope for reality".

Another gay man, of course. And so doubly suspect.

"Does Krauthammer really expect people to buy this crap?" – Matt Yglesias.

To which the answer, I’m afraid, is: yes. The one thing that truly bugged me about Charles’s column today is that he approvingly cites McCain’s speech which contained the following sentence:

For the first time in four years, we have a strategy that deals with how things really are in Iraq and not how we wish them to be.

Has Charles ever written a sentence as honest as that about the people and strategy he has been supporting for the past six years? Maybe I missed something. But if you really are trying to persuade people that the surge really is succeeding – the day after the Parliament and a key bridge are blown up in the heart of Baghdad – then you’d be more credible if you copped to your own errors of judgment in the past – and explained why now is different.

Same post – with subsequently added, bonus spin:

Howie Carr condemned Imus? If memory serves, Howie Carr’s radio show was the most offensive radio program I’d ever heard when I listened to it during the 2000 New Hampshire primary–more offensive, in terms of ethnic insensitivity and general sneering inhumanity than anything I’ve seen attributed to Imus’s broadcast.

**–In 2004, I appear to have blogged that when I tuned in again that year, "Carr’s show wasn’t vile anymore." I defer to my 2004 self on that issue. Still. …

Look: Mickey is not guilty of anything here but blogging in real time – and of having blogged in real time for years. Some minor inconsistencies over the years are inevitable – in fact proof that you’re a human being and not a robot. I just wish he were a little more tolerant of others, ahem, in the same boat.