The Keening of the Shrill

Recently in Shrillblog:

• Matthew McIrvin Is Shrill!: It's Joel Achenbach's fault. Joel Achenbach's true sin is his failure to lift a finger to evaluate any of the claims of global warming skeptics...
• Greg Sargent Is Shrill!: The passive voice is always a giveaway. Who was it exactly who derided Gore in 2000? Why, The New York Times... the paper is still straining to revive an old Gore chesnut -- Gore is a pompous ass -- by noting his "cluck-clucking" at a time when Gore was talking about what is quite literally the most important issue facing humankind, i.e., the fate of the earth...
• David Frum Is Shriller than Ever!: The Bush administration fitfully attempts to enforce the immigration laws, it looks for measures that meet four criteria: They must be 1) spectacular; 2) expensive; 3) unsustainable; and 4) ineffective. The proposal to deploy the National Guard to the border meets all four!...
• Not Bush, But the Press Corps Has Driven Michael Berube Shrill: Margaret Carlson, giving Al Gore his due at last, and doing it the only way a paid-up member of the Media Elite can give a Democrat his due, with a backhanded compliment...
• Daniel Drezner Is Shrill!: The White House seems to view the Treasury Secretary as a salesman's job, as opposed to a position where that requires any requisite policy knowledge, expertise, or anything of that nature...
• The Washington Times Is Shrill: [T]he actual not-so-good news, beyond the microscopic increase in average real wages, is that America's secretary of the Treasury has no clue about the 12-month "headline" rate of inflation...
• Tom Friedman Howls Beneath the Dead Uncaring Stars: Is there no job in this administration that is too important to be handed over to a political hack? No...
• War Correspondent Joe Galloway Is Shrill: waiting for answers that never come, change that never comes, course corrections that never come. you wanted some specifics. there are some specifics...
• Rush Limbaugh Is Shrill: are you and the President, the administration aware of the dissatisfaction on the whole issue of illegal immigration that exists not just within the Republican base, but within the country at large?...

And this week's Grand Heresiarch, Andrew "the Poor Man" Northrup:

• The Poor Man Is Hypershrill!!: The fundamental point is not that Gregg Easterbrook is not an authority on climate science.... Nor is it that, due to personal dishonesty or lack of interest, he doesn’t seem capable of absorbing not-at-all subtle points from minimally-technical overview documents put together - at great effort - by committees of actual world-class authorities, aimed directly at people who - like Easterbrook - who are interested in environmental policy. Nor is it that Easterbrook has a lot of poorly-concealed resentment directed at scientists and science.... Most people aren’t authorities on climate science, or on much of anything, but that’s not some horrible moral failing. Most people don’t want to read all the way to chapter 9 of some assiduously dry science policy document; and, let’s face it, most people are full of weird ideas about shit they don’t know anything about. I know I am. The problem is that - for reasons I can’t begin to understand - Easterbrook is sitting in the chair that should be occupied by someone who knows what the hell they are talking about...