This just in from The Scientist email blast:

Emails from a top climate research institute were made public, and some climate change deniers are crying foul. Would your private emails about research look fishy?

Can we scientists please be more even-handed? “Climate change deniers” is likening them to holocaust deniers. Why not call them “climate change skeptics“. Are scientists oblivious to civilized discourse, or are they purposely choosing inflammatory language for effect?

From now on, I declare that climate change proponents be called “Global Warming Fanboys“. Or maybe it should be “Climate Change Zombies” since they all wander around in an aimless search for the secret formulas to climate models and eat people’s brains in the process. To continue being consistent, hard-core atheists should be “Theism Deniers” instead of their self-proclaimed altruistic “free-thinking skeptics“. And remember, you need to say “theism denier” with the most patronizing and derisive vocal tone possible.

I am probably making some sort of logical fallacy in these examples, but who cares!?! This isn’t about truth. It is about convincing people of my position regardless of the evidence, right?

Time for me to start up my own movement of “integrity reform” so that I can call everyone I do not like a “integrity reform opponent”.

• Anne graduated from Preschool today. She had two excellent teachers this year and is sad to be done. Makes me wonder if she will be like Jason in Foxtrot. She was very beautiful in the dress her Grandma got her.
• We have been house hunting and found what we hope will be our next accommodations. We put in an offer which was accepted, but contingent on the sellers closing on another house. It has been a while since we bought a house, but amazingly enough, I think the process is even longer in Maryland compared to NewYork.
• Anne got pneumonia today. Very sad. So she will be taking antibiotics for a little while. No clue where she got it from and we hope that no other kids get/got it.
• I started another blog revolving around my coding for the MMORPG I play. Knowing me, I will probably update that one more than this..
• We are getting plugged into our church. I have been periodically helping lead the home group we go to. We love our home group, and we have felt warmly accepted into the community. I managed to get out skiing once with some of them. I think I will miss winter down here.
• Work continues to go well. Just hired someone to work under me and in the process of hiring another (in case anyone wants to send me a resume). I am really enjoying the Zend Framework but unfortunately I had to drop the smarty templates as they were killing the speed. Our hardware has killer I/O but awful CPU speed.
• On my daily commute I have been reading a very good book: As For Me and My House. I wish I had read it while in grad school. I know it would have helped me better understand myself and the stresses I place upon Camille. Better late than never. It is written in a very poetic style (not my style) which took a bit to get used to. While at home, I have been reading Fit Bodies Fat Minds. Another highly recommended read. It is not poetic and more my reading style.
• We have not gone to the movies in a while now. I think the last movie we saw was Children of Men. We did rent some interesting films though. An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed the Electric Car, and Thank You For Smoking. They raise interesting questions, especially for a stats minded person like myself. The first 2 are more of the documentary type. The last one can get you thinking about how media and sophistry pervade and sway our culture.

So, hopefully Camille will post here soon to give everyone an update on some of the other important things going on in our lives.