Today's links, etc.

Media Research Center: CNN spreading disinformation about Global Warming, making people think it's real. THOSE FIENDS! "No doubt those ill-informed men and women on the street have relied on the preponderance of fear-mongering media reports." (That's the problem with science: You can't balance its findings by quoting Republican political operatives and industry "experts" ... Well, you can, only it's the same thing as lying...)

David Appell (Journalist bete noire to climate skeptics), puts this week's global warming meme in proper context.

Bloggers:  GOP senators want to investigate the prosecutor now investigating Rove, et al, in the Plame outing. ("Yeah, well, you know, sometimes people pop off about 'tings dey doan know nothin' about, see? And then they wake up dead, just like that. Fughedabboutit.")

Media Matters: Talking heads mislead on Wilson  (Remember: The outed CIA agent and her husband are the America-haters here. Get with the program).

WaPo: Neo-cons adopt new term for "War on Terror" (is "War on Reality" trademarked?)

SkyNews: 40 goats for Chelsea! (I smell Broadway musical!)

Buzzmachine (et al): The Michael Kinsley editorial experiment crashes and burns in L.A. (Note to pundits: You don't build democratic media via CELEBRITY, and that's what the Kinsley experiment was: A chance for an Old Media guy to cash in on other people's New Media ideas. It doesn't work that way).

Rhetorica: Anonymous sources and reportable facts.

Cosmic Variance: Answering "Intelligent Design" rhetoric on scientists being smug about water on Mars but claiming there's no evidence on Earth of a global flood: "You see, one thing has nothing to do with the other - whether or not there was ever water on Mars has no bearing on if the entire planet flooded several thousand years ago. It’s not like Noah built an intergalactic starship and bumped his ass to Mars to dump off the extra water, all the while bringing the pure power of funk to benighted Martians." (Most of all, help me find the funk. Ya dah dah dee dah dah dah, dah dah dah dah.).

"Life is just high school with salaries." -- Steve Lovelady, editor, CJR Daily, in a PressThink comment.

CJR Daily: Florida columnist criticizes Wal-Mart; Wal-Mart issues ultimatium (fire columnist or lose your racks at Wal-Mart); editor tells Wal-Mart to stick that smiley face where the aliens probe.  (A hero lives in Pensacola)