Around The Blogosphere -- December 15, 2018

The weekly run-through of non-Bakken featured blogs (linked at the sidebar at the right).

Mark Perry, AEIdeas, Monday evening links:

Video of the Day (below). Obama Built That? Obama jumps right over ridiculous and lands square on delusional as he actually tries to take personal credit for the shale revolution that made America the world’s No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas in recent years!! OMG! While in office, Obama called fossil fuels the “energies of the past” and burdened them with excessive regulations as he actively promoted renewable energies like solar and wind with subsidies. I’ll give Obama Four Pinocchios for his false, delusional claim that he was in any way responsible for America’s remarkable oil and gas energy success story.

Yeah, I Built That
Mark Perry, AEIdeas, best sentence I heard today:

…. is from Camile Paglia’s lecture below at about 4:00:

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Here’s what she says right before that, for context:

On the intelligence spectrum, it’s been shown again and again that women occupy the great middle of the IQ spectrum. But with men you have them turning up at the opposite extremes. You have male geniuses and you have male psychotics. That’s why one of my great sentences is that “There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.”

RealClimateScience: cage match -- climate experts vs reality.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
– Joseph Goebbels

Temperatures in Greenland and Iceland warmed cyclically until the 1930s, cooled through the 1970s, warmed until about ten years ago – and are now declining again.

ZeroHedge: ObamaCare gutted. The story is now everywhere. ObamaCare remains in effect pending appeals. The basis of the case: now that there is no tax penalty for having no medical insurance, the law is unconstitutional. The tea leaves suggest it will end up in the Supreme Court. It will be interesting to see how the Chief Justice rationalizes the "act" now, 'cause you just know he will vote to uphold it.

ZeroHedge: Tom Steyer's tiny crowds.