Ah, a rare example of plain speech in political discourse.

Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has the following nugget in an article reacting to George Will's claim that in the 1970s scientific consensus was that we could expect global cooling and a new ice age:

There's just one little problem with this story, which reappears every so often in conservative discourse on the environment. Specifically, it's a crock of shit.

And this from the single most respected blogger of the 2008 campaign.

THANK GOD, someone knows to call a shovel a shovel...

Ah, a rare example of plain speech in political discourse.

Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has the following nugget in an article reacting to George Will's claim that in the 1970s scientific consensus was that we could expect global cooling and a new ice age:

There's just one little problem with this story, which reappears every so often in conservative discourse on the environment. Specifically, it's a crock of shit.

And this from the single most respected blogger of the 2008 campaign.

THANK GOD, someone knows to call a shovel a shovel...