Tuesday digest

- While I still haven't read the UN-sanctioned summary of scientific research that was released on Friday, when it comes to claims of human-driven global warming, I still believe that skepticism is prudent. Here's yet another non-believer. Fred says that instead of trying to claim the moral high ground, those who are really worked up about it ought to focus their energies where they would really be useful.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Meanwhile, Anne Applebaum reminds readers that if you really want to get serious about global warming, there's only one way to do it: pay.

- When you hear about imams like this one in north Toronto, sentiments like this and this start making a little more sense, despite the protests of beacons of tolerance and understanding like Mohamed Elmasry.

- Does pointing out that the federal government in Canada spends nearly 50K per year on every Aboriginal kid in foster care make Jim Prentice a racist, mean-spirited, or both?

- Here's hoping that Harper's Mulroney routine as it relates to Quebec comes to an end.

I'm not holding my breath, though.

- Saudi Arabia arrests and beats foreigners for dancing and drinking, while Iran is claiming "nuclear rights" and bragging about their newly-developed herbal cure for AIDS ... but this is the real madman on the word stage, right?