21 thoughts on “Was Sandy Caused By SUVs And Coal Plants?”

      1. I guess it is the association to Mark Steyn, just in case Mann’s lawyers, who filed suit against you, Steyn and others, were having difficulty in proving… what? That you guys read each other?

      2. Rand,

        I take it you didn’t discuss this article with your lawyers…

        Occasionally referring to someone in a negative way while discussing a public issue like climate change may be defended as free speech. But continued focused attacks on an individual’s professional reputation, especially after they have filed a lawsuit against you for such behavior, moves it more and more across the fuzzy line between expressing free speech and willfully conducting a libel and defamation campaign that may impact that individual’s standing in their field.

        And please, for your sake, don’t answer and give his lawyers more evidence. Just talk to your lawyer. I enjoy your blogging even though we disagree and would hate to see a court ordering you to stop blogging or take your website if you lose this lawsuit.

        As I tell my students in my business law class, going to court, especially in the U.S., is always a gamble where truth and justice are often the first causalities regardless of what legal theory says. So Rand, don’t give them his lawyers the rope they need to hang you with.

        1. I take it you didn’t discuss this article with your lawyers…

          That would be a foolish assumption.

          There is no rope in that article with which to hang me.

          You don’t seem to understand that I welcome this legal proceeding. You also don’t understand that there is no court in the land that could order me to stop blogging, or take my website down, regardless of the outcome.

          1. Using the lecturer’s logic, I think Matula is trying to intimidate Rand by suggesting he’ll be lynched. One wonders if Matula talked to lawyers before making such baldface threats to Rand’s life.

          2. Rand,

            Blogging is too new an activity to make such assumptions and courts have a lot more leeway than you may think. I do wish you well in your lawsuit but remember, anything may happen and often does when a case goes before a jury.

          3. Leland,

            What threats? What have you been drinking?

            I am just pointing out the realities and power of the American legal system. Really, if the Tea Party actually wanted to do something constructive they should work on reeling it in, and I don’t mean by simply replacing one group of activist judges with another.

            Like I said, I find Rand’s views entertaining and so I hope this case turns out well for him.

          4. Blogging is too new an activity to make such assumptions and courts have a lot more leeway than you may think.

            Blogging is as protected by the First Amendment as any other type of publication. Every instance in which a judge has tried to shut down a blogger they’ve been slapped down on appeal.

          5. Intimidation is, of course, Mann’s purpose. Besides the repugnance of giving that insufferable $&@^! the satisfaction, backing down now would be too little, too late in any case. It’s easy for me to say, since I’m not in the line of fire. But, I think Boone and Otter (and Rich Lowry) would advise: To-ga!

          6. Hey Matula, you’re the one bringing up rope and suggesting Rand not get hurt. But don’t worry, no one here has ever mistaken you for a serious person.

          7. Leland,

            I see, just because I advise him to be careful as the legal system is not as predicable as folks think its threat. Either you are on something or just are unable to stop being a troll…

  2. Why rand — wherever did you get the idea the moon could ever have influenced a hurricane’s storm surge in the past? I’m sure we would have heard of such a thing before.

    Oh, wait — that’s exactly what you’re saying: we have heard of it before.

    Carry on.

    1. Also, when there’s embedded video on a post (e.g. the Joss Wheton one), it doesn’t show up as a link or anything.

        1. How do I right-click from an iPhone, especially when no link of any kind appears? Regular links appear but embedded videos don’t.

          1. Get a real computer! And off my lawn!

            Sorry, I’ll try to add links in the future. But surely you do have access to the Intertubes other than an iPhone, eventually, right?

          2. Most touch-screen phone browsers use a press-and-hold method to bring up a context menu when “clicking” on a “clickable” object in the browser. YMMV, as usual.

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