Buc 'Em (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
For three years as we have seen lately, all right around the same time of the season, the Minnesota Vikings were good for what ails you! ln 2000 and 2001 under Dungy, we thought "OK, its Tony's old team"... But Jon Gruden got in the act too, and speaking of acts, the Bucs got over their "We have a defense but no offense" reputation in this game. Brad Johnson started his path to...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Western Bulldogs veteran Brad Johnson will captain his side for a fifth year next season, while the Essendon leadership is Jobe Watson's to lose.
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Actually California's feeling a bit punked BRAD JOHNSON gets his envelope and slide rule out and finds that the odds that Arnold Schwarzenegger's intemperate rejoinder to his State Assembly were a fluke are a trillion to one. It's not entirely clear from Mr Johnson's analysis, however, whether he is taking into account how many official written communications Mr Schwarzenegger issues every year. If...
Big Cat Country (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
We have watched NFL football for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, maybe more and some concepts have stood the test of time as being absolute true. Quarterbacks do not win many games or have long careers when they are getting hit often. When a quarterback sustains the punishment level David Garrard has sustained in the last two seasons, he won't perform well or be on the field much longer. Conversely,...
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
On November 2, 2008, the Cowboys traveled to the Meadowlands to face the World Champion New York Giants. Playing with backup quarterback Brad Johnson (followed by Brooks Bollinger), the Cowboys suffered a 35-14 rout that ended a disastrous four-game stretch during which the Cowboys could only manage a 1-3 record. Confidence level at that point [...]
Greenfyre's (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Jon Stewart, Pwned! (by Jon Stewart)BPSDB I was rereading Brad Johnson’s article about the Jon Stewart non-interview with Levitt of Superfreakonomics infamy when I realized that one of the links he provides is the Stewart interview on Crossfire… Ouch, nasty, but so apropos. It brings up a couple of points worth mentioning in regard to [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Today, the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming held a hearing investigating fraudulent letters forged by Bonner & Associates on behalf of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) to attack the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454). As the Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson has reported, ACCCE President and [...]
Nature Publishing Group (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Inactivation of the Sas2 histone acetyltransferase delays senescence driven by telomere dysfunction The EMBO Journal. doi:10.1038/emboj.2009.314 Authors: Marina L Kozak, Alejandro Chavez, Weiwei Dang, Shelley L Berger, Annie Ashok, Xiaoge Guo & F Brad Johnson
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from Think Progress . On last night’s Daily Show, host Jon Stewart heaped praise on the contrarian approach to global warming taken by SuperFreakonomics author Steve Levitt, a University of Chicago economist. Stewart was dismissive of the widespread criticism of Levitt and co-author Stephen Dubner, asking, “Have you stepped on a secular religion'” Stewart,...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room . John Kerry testifying.This week, hearings begin in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733). This comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation , co-sponsored by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and committee chair Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), will establish a mandatory global warming...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Brad Johnson, who oversees Utah's environmental emergency program, will become the Department of Environmental Quality's new deputy director in December.
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room This afternoon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, President Obama challenged the nation to explore the “new frontiers” of the “ clean energy economy of tomorrow.” He praised Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for working on legislation to make our energy system “more...
Climate Progress (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Irony can be so ironic, as Brad Johnson explains in this Think Progress repost. This morning, activists from the Yes Men troupe claiming to represent the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced the organization was reversing its years of opposition to any climate bill before Congress, saying in jest that the “Kerry-Boxer Bill is a good start [...]
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
GDP is a lousy way to measure the impact of climate change THE other day, Doug Elmendorf, head of the CBO, testified before Congress that the effects of global warming on America's GDP are likely to be no big deal. Brad Johnson thinks Mr Elmendorf has to be wrong, because catastrophic devastation of America's climate has got to lead to serious reductions in GDP. But it seems to me that while many...
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from Wonk Room . Yesterday, Doug Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), testified before the Senate energy committee about the “comparatively modest” cost of a cap-and-trade system to limit carbon pollution. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal blared “ Congressional Budget Chief Says Climate Bill Would Cost Jobs ”...
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