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Spend the first day of your trip wandering Ecuador's capital city. Meet the group in the evening at the hotel.
Travel overland to the jungle city of Tena, located on the edge of the Amazon. From there, transfer by truck to the local community of Pimpilala. Stay in rustic wooden huts in the community of a Quichua family, enjoy the hospitality of these wonderful people, and experience life in the jungle first-hand.
Head out on nature walks and learn about uses of traditional plants, their cultural beliefs, and local traditions in the Amazon jungle.
In the morning, cycle to the nearby community of Shandia and discover the beauty of the Amazon with a member of the community as your guide. Learn about traditional uses of cacao by watching a chocolate-making demonstration, eat meals made of fresh local ingredients, and stay at the G Adventures-supported community lodge.
Travel to Baños, the perfect setting to get your adrenaline pumping, try out horseback riding, canyoning, hiking, mountain biking, or rafting in the surrounding mountains.
Enjoy a free day in Baños, opt to check out the swing at the end of the world or soak in nearby hot springs.
Enjoy the scenery on the way to the charming town of Cuenca.
Ecuador's third largest town, Cuenca, retains a pleasant provincial air with its colonial architecture, art galleries, and museums. The surrounding countryside is an outdoor playground. Visit national parks, take walks in the beautiful countryside, and see Ecuador's only Inca ruin site.
Enjoy a free day in beautiful Cuenca. Explore the city's sights including cobbled streets, red-tiled roofs, art galleries, flower markets, shady plazas, and museums or opt to visit nearby Cajas National Park or the Inca ruins of Ingapirca. Later, catch an overnight bus to Mancora.
Arrive early into the seaside town of Mancora, a village populated by fishermen and surfers from around Peru and the world. Chill out and breathe in the salty air.
Opt to relax on the beach, discover Mancora, go horseback riding, or take a surf lesson.
Free time in Mancora. Overnight bus to Huanchaco.
Enjoy more beach time or opt to visit pre-Inca sites or the city of Trujillo.
We continue heading south along the coast to Trujillo, the largest city in northern Peru. It is known for its beautiful colonial structures and nearby attractions of Chan-Chan ruins and the resort town of Huanchaco, where we spend the night.
Full day in Huanchaco before boarding a night bus to Lima.
Explore Peru's capital on an optional city tour or simply relax. Be sure to try the tasty ceviche and pisco sours.
To get a feel for colonial Lima, take a cab to the Plaza de Armas and watch the changing of the Palace Guard in the afternoon. Walk around the streets surrounding the Jirón de la Unión for great examples of Spanish-colonial architecture and to experience life in a large South American city. There are many fine museums in and around the city, including the Museo Rafael Larco Herrera. An optional city tour visits many of the cities highlights.
Enjoy the day exploring the city. Opt to pre-book the Lima Cooking Class and learn how to cook some classic Peruvian dishes using ingredients from the local market.
Free morning in Lima before travelling by bus to Paracas.
Savour a pisco sour while staying in Pisco's neighbouring town of Paracas.
Optional visit to Ballestas Islands before travelling to Nazca. En route, stop at a winery and at the oasis of Huacachina.
There is time in the morning for an optional excursion to the popular Ballestas Islands, which provide an excellent chance to view a lively sea lion colony, pelicans, penguins, and other varieties of birdlife. Pre-book by adding the Ballestas Islands Wildlife Tour on the checkout page or ask your GCO or travel agent for assistance.
Back on land, catch a bus south to Nazca. On the way, pass by the pleasant colonial town of Ica.
Ica enjoys a dry, sunny climate year-round and is known for its huge sand dunes. Located around the nearby oasis of Huacachina, the dunes are perfect as subjects for photographs and for a favourite local past time: sandboarding. Apart from the dunes, Ica is famous for its wines and there are several wineries and distilleries in the area.
Opt for a flight over the Nazca Lines before an overnight bus to Arequipa.
Opt to pre-book your Flight over Nazca Lines on the checkout page to include this optional activity on your tour or ask your GCO or travel agent for assistance.
Opt to explore the Arequipa on a city tour or soak in a local hot spring.
Explore Arequipa, the 'white city'. Interested in history and architecture? Opt to visit to the Santa Catalina Monastery, offering a brief respite from the outside world and a unique view into a bygone way of life. Pre-book by adding the Arequipa City Tour & Santa Catalina Monastery on the checkout page or ask your GCO or travel agent for assistance.
For spicy food lovers, checking out one of the "Picanterías" is a must. Arequipa has a variety of regional food: alpaca, shrimp, pork, lots of soups, and spicy sauces.
Take a full-day tour of the spectacular Colca Valley, and opt for a soak in hot springs.
Enjoy an overnight excursion to the impressive Colca Canyon - one of the deepest canyons in the world. Stop in fascinating villages and at "miradors" (scenic lookouts), where, with a little luck, visitors can see Andean condors soaring over the majestic Andes. Other unusual animals that can be spotted in the Andean landscape include three different species of camelids: alpaca, llama and vicuña.
Set out looking for the majestic soaring condors over Colca Canyon. Head back to Arequipa to enjoy the city in the evening.
Get an early start to go on the lookout for flying condors. Travel from Chivay town to a condor viewpoint to admire these magnificent birds in the air. On the way back, stop by some local villages and viewpoints to see old terraces and sections of Colca Canyon, the deepest canyon in the world.
Explore Arequipa and opt to take a city tour. Take an overnight bus to Cusco.
Free time to explore Cusco. Choose to pre-book the optional Cusco Cooking Class. Opt for a city tour or go whitewater rafting, horseback riding or mountain biking.
Enjoy another free day in Cusco. Choose to pre-book the Cusco Cooking Class.
Opt to visit and hike the famed Rainbow Mountain, pre-book on the checkout page to include this optional activity on your tour or ask your GCO or travel agent for assistance.
Learn about the Sacred Valley en route to Ollantaytambo. Opt to take a Sacred Valley tour with a visit to a G Adventures-supported women's weaving co-op.
Ollantaytambo is a major Inca ruin site and a first taste of what lies ahead. For those craving more before they head out on the Trail, opt to take a Sacred Valley tour which includes a visit to a G Adventures-supported women's weaving co-op.
Return to the Sacred Valley with the CEO to explore the sites of the Maras Salt Mines and the ancient Incan agricultural terraces of Moray. Continue on a scenic drive through small villages and stunning views of the Andean countryside. Stop for a picnic lunch at Piuray Lagoon and opt to explore by kayak or stand-up paddleboard. Return to Cusco for the evening.
Leave the hikers to start their trek and head out to explore Moray and Maras ancient Incan ruins. Enjoy a scenic drive through Andean farmland on the way to Piuray Lagoon.
Enjoy a free day to explore the city or take advantage of the many optional activities available.
Travel by van to Ollantaytambo to catch the scenic train to Aguas Calientes.
Enjoy a guided tour of Machu Picchu. Opt to visit the Inca Bridge before returning to Cusco in the evening.
Rise early to catch the first bus up to Machu Picchu with the guide. Enjoy a guided visit of the ruins followed by free time to explore. When ready, head back down by bus to Aguas Calientes to meet up with the rest of the group and take a train back to Cusco.
Free day to explore more of Cusco or just relax.
Travel through the high Altiplano region to travel to Puno on Lake Titicaca.
Guided tour of Lake Titicaca with a homestay in a local village.
Head out by boat across Lake Titicaca. Visit the community on Taquile Island and enjoy a local lunch with spectacular views.
After, cruise to another village for an overnight homestay on the shores of the lake (the homestay location can vary based on community availability). This experience provides an opportunity to learn more about rural life in the Peruvian highlands and to participate in local traditions. Eat with the family, learn some Quecha and Spanish language skills, try on traditional costumes, and help out with daily chores around the village.
Visit the floating islands of Uros. Optional visit to the Sillustani burial site.
Leave the homestay families late morning, and visit the Uros Islands on the way back to Puno. A popular optional activity in Puno is a visit to the spectacular chullpas (funerary towers) of Sillustani, a pre-Inca archaeological site only a short drive away.
Opt to pre-book the Lake Titicaca Kayaking on the checkout page to include this optional activity on your tour or ask your GCO or travel agent for assistance.
Cross over into Bolivia for a night out in the highest city of the trip. Oxygen bar anyone?
Enjoy a full-day drive around the lake and through the Altiplano to La Paz. Bolivia is filled with spectacular views of the countryside. La Paz sits nearly 4,000m (13,120 ft) above sea level, so be prepared for cool evenings and mornings.
Free day in La Paz. Opt to visit Iglesia de San Francisco, the Valley of the Moon, the Witches' Market, or the nearby Tiahuanaco Ruins.
Enjoy a free day to explore the vibrant markets and winding streets of the city before boarding a night bus to Sucre.
Free time to explore the beautiful colonial city of Sucre. For more active options opt to go hiking in the surrounding area or mountain biking.
Travel south to Sucre. Tackle the city as there is a lot to offer during the two days here. Optional activities include a visit to an old tin baron's mansion, mountain biking, and hiking.
Enjoy another free day to explore Sucre and surroundings.
Travel south to the one of the world's highest cities.
Staying in the Bolivian highlands, we travel south to the city of Potosí. The highest city of its size in the world, this UNESCO World Heritage Site has had a tumultuous history as a silver mining centre during colonial times.
Get out and explore Potosí, learn about the history of the city while wandering the streets. Stop at the market and interact with the locals.
Travel to Uyuni and get ready for an excursion to the Salar de Uyuni.
Enjoy a three-day 4x4 excursion to the Salar de Uyuni and surrounding desert altiplano with spectacular scenery. Today you will be heading into the Salar de Uyuni. Our groups like to get creative with photography, as the endless white of the salt flats creates some great depth illusions that are fun to play with in photos. Last stop for the evening is a G Adventures-supported community lodge in a traditional agricultural village in the heart of a desert oasis.
Travel through the Bolivian landscape to the town of Uyuni. Despite its isolation and challenging climate (cold and blustery most of the year), the town of Uyuni has earned the nickname of Hija Predilecta de Bolivia (Bolivia's Favourite Daughter). It is also the starting point for our 3-night excursion through the spectacular Salar de Uyuni (Uyuni Salt Flats) in 4x4 vehicles.
Spend three days in the stunning landscapes between the Salar de Uyuni and the Atacama Desert in Chile. Our groups like to get creative with photography, as the endless white of the salt flats creates some great depth illusions that are fun to play with in photos.
The tour takes us through the impressive large red lagoon of Laguna Colorada and the striking blue-green Laguna Verde at 5,000m (16,404 ft).
Settle in to your G Adventures-supported community salt-brick bungalow, complete with salt floors and furniture, after a guided walking tour up to the sacred Jukil mountaintop for sweeping valley views and a dinner of local ingredients prepared by ladies from the community.
Explore the desert altiplano on a 4x4 excursion. Admire the spectacular scenery while passing red and blue lagoons and interesting rock formations along the route. Spot wild llamas, alpacas and even flamingos deep within the desert.
Rise early to cover more ground of the unique landscape of the Salar de Uyuni. Continue to see incredible scenery, including volcanoes, and salt lakes. Travel to the border and descend by bus to San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. It's a long but scenic drive.
After continuing through the Salar de Uyuni in the morning, hop on a bus further south to the dry desert regions of Argentina and Chile, where we stop in the little town of San Pedro de Atacama, on the edge of the Atacama desert—the driest place on earth.
Opt to go sandboarding or mountain biking, or visit the Valley of the Moon.
There are plenty of optional excursions here -- biking, exploring nearby ruins, horseback riding, and touring the Valley of the Moon.
Cross the border into Argentina.
We make our way to Salta, situated in the Lerma Valley of northern Argentina. Salta is home to empanadas salteñas - the delicious local specialty, and no visit to the town will be complete without giving them a try. In the evening, opt to experience a local celebration at one of the "Peña" folklore shows.
Explore the city and enjoy the local cuisine. Opt to take a trip through the scenic Quebrada de las Conchas to Cafayate, or visit the High Mountain Archaeological Museum.
Skip a long bus journey with a quick flight to Buenos Aires.
When you are done exploring, settle your weary feet and enjoy a drink in one of the many sidewalk cafes and restaurants and begin to understand the contemplative Argentine way of life. Try the succulent bife and parrilladas!
Enjoy a free day to explore beautiful Buenos Aires.
Get out and explore. Consider visiting the districts of La Boca, Recoleta, and San Telmo or catch a tango show at one of the many famous tanguerías. Pre book an optional city bike tour, and get a local's eye view of your surroundings! Wander the pedestrian walkways and see some dancing in the streets.
Explore the "Paris of the Americas," from the hidden patios of trendy Palermo to bohemian vibes in San Telmo this city has something for everyone.
Cross the Río de la Plata by ferry to Colonia, Uruguay. Explore on an orientation walk, then enjoy free time to explore the area and relax at a streetside café.
Travel from Colonia to Montevideo in the morning. Explore Montevideo in the afternoon; opt to grab a snack at the Port Market, wander around the colourful old town, or visit Estadio Centenario where the first World Cup was played.
Enjoy another day to get to know Montevideo. Opt to take a day trip to glamorous Punta del Este or chill in the park like a local.
Travel by day through picturesque settlements and pastures finishing in the last Uruguayan stop—a local ranch, known in the region as an estancia.
Spend a day in the life on an Uruguayan ranch, go for a walk in the countryside, learn how to make empanadas, and experience a local barbecue.
In the morning cross the border into Gualeguaychu in Argentina, then begin the long overnight journey to Iguassu Falls.
In the afternoon opt to visit the Brazilian side of the falls and get an incredible panoramic view. Opt to take a helicopter ride over the falls, visit a bird park or see the Itaipu Dam.
Today enjoy a full day excursion to the Argentine side of the falls. Wander along the walk paths that connect different viewpoints of the falls. Opt to take a boat tour to see the cascading falls from below.
Skip an overnight bus ride and fly to São Paulo, heading straight to the coast. Explore colonial Paraty, then hit the beach.
Skipping the long bus ride, we fly to Sao Paulo and head straight to Paraty, a quaint colonial town on the coast renowned for its architecture.
Free time to explore Paraty's beaches, a national park and surroundings. Opt to visit a cachaça distillery or take a boat tour to nearby islands.
Paraty is a quaint colonial town renowned for its architecture—the pace might be slow but there's a lot to choose from. Considered one of the world's most important examples of Portuguese colonial architecture by UNESCO, the historic centre is a well-preserved national historic monument, and today has been closed to vehicles to preserve its laid-back colonial ambiance. Opt to take a boat tour of the bay, go on a kayak tour, or a jeep tour.
Continue by van up the coast, and take a ferry to Ilha Grande.
Travel to the port in Angra dos Reis and catch a boat over to Ilha Grande not far from the coast.
Free time to explore the beaches of Ilha Grande. Opt to hike the remote trails, take a boat trip around the island, play in the waves or go snorkelling.
Travel to Rio de Janeiro. Take a city tour to experience sights like Rio's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, or take a leisurely stroll along Copacabana beach as the waves lap at your feet.
Leaving the port after returning from Ilha Grande, a dramatic road then takes us north along the coast through superb scenery before rounding the cliffs at Vidigal. Get a first glimpse of one of the most memorable cities in the world, Brazil's ocean-side jewel, Río de Janeiro.
Enjoy any free time by exploring the wonders that this city has to offer from the centrally located hostel in Copacabana.
In the morning, explore the favela with a local resident on a G Adventures-supported tour to watch a drumming demonstration, get a Capoeira lesson, and sample craft beers with a new perspective of the city. Enjoy a free afternoon to discover all that Rio has to offer.
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USA Today reported that nationally, gasoline averages were $3.80 a gallon — about 12 cents below this year's peak and nearly 20 cents below 2011's $3.99 a gallon. Gasoline prices have now fallen 18 straight days and 25 of the past 28.
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With outstanding performances so far this season, junior Cameron McDearmon (Owings Mills, Md./Franklin)will be looking to surpass the competition in the weight throw, as well as the shot put. Recently being named the America East Field Athlete Performer of the Week after recording the second-longest throw of the year in the conference, McDearmon will be looking to put up another top performance.
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DeSmogBlog challenges Heartland Institute to argue tobacco rather than climate change
VANCOUVER – Yesterday, the Chicago-based Heartland Institute launched an ad campaign calling former vice president Gore to a public debate on global warming. In response, the DeSmogBlog challenges the Heartland Institute to a debate on the harmful effects of second-hand tobacco smoke.
"The Heartland Institute has a history of trying to create scientific confusion where there is none," DeSmogBlog.com co-founder and veteran PR professional, Jim Hoggan said today. "For years they have blown smoke for the tobacco industry. Now they're representing the fossil fuel industry in the fight against sensible climate change legislation."
"Well, if they're really interested in free public debate about science, let's talk tobacco."
Heartland's position is on the record. In a 2004 article on the Institute's website, Heartland states: "Cigarettes offer real benefits for the elderly, the clumsy, the forgetful, and the easily distracted. (These benefits have been intentionally underplayed by the public health community.)" Heartland president Joseph Bast has even argued that smoking moderately presents no risk whatsoever.
"This is typical," said Hoggan. "They know they can't win this debate any more than they can win on climate change; but as long as they keep alive a flicker of doubt, they can prevent positive action."
In its challenge, Heartland proposed the topic: "Global warming is not a crisis." In keeping, the DeSmogBlog proposes: "Smoking is bad for you, really." The DeSmogBlog will meet any tobacco apologist that Heartland can dig up in any forum. As a special bonus, there will be a short seminar on the correlation between the Heartland Institute's corporate funding and the "free market solutions" that the think tank supports.
The DeSmogBlog is an advocacy website dedicated to clearing away the public relations pollution that clouds climate science. It specializes in demonstrating links between climate change denial and fossil fuel funding. The Heartland Institute, for example, has received more than $500,000 from ExxonMobil.A correction to this post has been made, see here.
This debate is a good idea I think!
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"Yesterday, the Chicago-based Heartland Institute launched an ad campaign calling former vice president Gore to a public debate on global warming. In response, the DeSmogBlog challenges the Heartland Institute to a debate on the harmful effects of second-hand tobacco smoke."
So, rather than debate the issue "Global Warming Is Not A Crisis", your response is a straw-man argument.
And you absurdly accuse others of trying to cause confusion? Check.
But, by all means, continue to run away from the debate. It brings you credit as a PR shill.
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"So, the solution put on this site [www.freedominion.ca] a little while ago by Tina is one I would support as well - namely, they don't take sides at all and admit they don't know and so are holding unbiased, public hearings in which scientists from both sides are invited to testify. The resulting chaos, with claims all over the map, will do enough to thoroughly confuse everyone (which is appropriate, actually, since the science is so immature and, frankly, confusing) and take the wind out of the sails of the "we are causing a climate disaster and must stop it" camp entirely, and the CPC can quietly turn to important issues without really having had to say much at all.
What's wrong with this approach?
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James Taylor replied on Permalink
Fearing the science; smearing the messenger
It it unfortunate that DeSmogBlog fears the science and smears the messenger. DeSmogBlog states, "The DeSmogBlog is an advocacy website dedicated to clearing away the public relations pollution that clouds climate science."
I guess you could say that is true, if failing to even address climate science qualifies as "clearing away the public relations pollution." Indeed, one would think that a blog dedicated to sound science would be an enthusiastic cheerleader of scientific debates. Instead, DeSmogBlog resorts to the first-year high school debate tactic of smearing the messenger and confusing the issue when one knows one is beaten on the merits of the issue.
DeSmogBlog states that it "specializes in demonstrating links between climate change denial and fossil fuel funding. The Heartland Institute, for example, has received more than $500,000 from ExxonMobil."
This is a common tactic of self-proclaimed "activist" groups such as DeSmogBlog; villainize and smear the ethics of your opponents as a means of avoiding discussion of an issue's scientific merits. Nevertheless, we can certainly address DeSmogBlog's disingenuous accusation. While it is true that Heartland receives less than 5 percent of its funding from energy companies such as ExxonMobil, Heartland receives more than 95 percent of its funding from energy consumers. If we were to be extremely cynical and believe that people create and work for public policy organizations for the express purpose of selling out to the highest bidder rather than because people strongly believe in certain fundamental principles, then who do you think the Heartland Institute and other think tanks would sell out to, energy producers or energy consumers?
In this case, the answer is clear; the 95 percent of funding that comes from energy consumers. Moreover, does DeSmogBlog even mention the mountains of money that are shoveled to environmental activist groups? The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Environmental Defense, etc., all receive far more money from left-leaning corporations and public trusts than the Heartland Institute receives from corporate donors. Once again, this begs the question, if we assume that people create and work for think tanks with the goal of selling out to the highest bidder, then which way would they lean? It is amazing that public policy organizations even question big-government environmental activism considering how much money can be made by screaming "the sky is falling."
And all of this discussion still leaves out the topic that should matter most to people who truly care about the global warming issue – what does the science tell us? DeSmogBlog attempts to divert attention away from the fact that global warming alarmists consistently lose in scientific debates on the issue. Science has debunked virtually every assertion that Al Gore made in his movie.
The Gulf Stream is in no danger of shutting down (Science, November 17, 2006; New Scientist, November 7, 2006). Antarctica as a whole is getting colder rather than warmer (Nature, January 14, 2002). The Antarctic ice cap is growing rather than shrinking (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, September, 2006). Greenland is in a prolonged cold spell (Journal of Geophysical Research, June 2006), and Greenland's ice sheet is in equilibrium (Journal of Glaciology, December 2005). Alpine glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are growing, not shrinking (Insurance Digest, March 13, 2005; Journal of Climate, September 2006). Kilimanjaro is losing its snow cap due to local deforestation resulting in dryer updrafts rather than because of global warming (Nature, November 23, 2003) – indeed, Kilimanjaro temperatures are in a long-term cooling trend. Scientists expect sea level to rise only 1 foot or so in the entire next century, rather than the asserted 20 feet (IPCC, February 2007). Heck, if I had to argue against sound science, I would probably criticize a debate format, also.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Is this the same James Taylor who works for the H I?
Mmmm are you the "James Taylor" who works for the Heartland Insitute and is editor for "Environment & Climate News"?
Here is a reference describing E&C news:
Desmogblog readers please take everything said by this contributor with a grain of salt. These are disproven references he cites.
Ian Forrester
James Taylor replied on Permalink
Another ad hominem
James Taylor replied on Permalink
Is this the same James Taylor?
Yes, it most definitely is me. Pardon the lack of paragraph breaks - for some reason the blog does not recognize my paragraph breaks. So global warming alarmists are saying that New Scientist, Nature, Science, Journal of Geophysical Research, Journal of Glaciology, Journal of Climate, etc., are all "disproven references" now? That is quite an assertion.
Notice how science is still nowhere to be seen in the comments posted by global warming alarmists. This is a perfect illustration of global warming alarmists refuse to debate the science because they know the science contradicts their claims. Of course, there was a prominent debate on the science on March 14 in New York City.
Richard Lindzen, professor of meteorology at MIT, Philop Stott, emeritus professor of bio-geography at the University of London, and author Michael Crichton, a Harvard-trained medical doctor who has been an instructor at Cambridge University and MIT, argued on behalf of the proposition "global warming is not a crisis." Arguing that global warming is a crisis were Brenda Ekwurzel, climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, Gavin Schmidt, an underling of prominent alarmist James Hansen at NASA, and Richard Somerville, professor of oceanography at the University of California at San Diego. Before the debate, audience members were polled and indicated by a 2-to-1 margin (57 percent to 29 percent) that they believed global warming is a crisis.
After both sides had an hour apiece to present their evidence and field questions from the audience, the audience voted by 46 percent to 42 percent that global warming is not a crisis. For my colleagues who worry that propaganda is winning out over science, the results of the New York debate were quite eye-opening! This is why global warming alarmists fear debating the issue on the merits, and instead resort to smear campaigns desiged to confuse the issue and avoid the science.
Propaganda is only effective when science is barred from the premises. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to investigate the science with an open mind before coming to a conclusion.
Our Web site, www.heartland.org, has links to the science that alarmists fear.
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Please note the difference between journals and references.
Why do you deniers have so much difficulty with the English language? I said that the references i.e. papers, were disproved not the journals.
And the use of sock puppets is frowned upon and in academia is considered as bad as plagiarism.
No scientist with a grain of sense will ever accept the call to "debate" with you shysters who are not well acquainted with the truth. The debate is over (see the recent IPCC reports). Get over it.
Ian Forrester
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Kevin Grandia replied on Permalink
Sorry, where's the science?
I've tried to find links to science on your heartland site. Just like the "smoker's lounge" section on your site, where you downplay the effects of second-hand smoke, I find no references to science only to opinion.
Could it be that you consider opinion to be science?
Here's some links to scientists that are telling global warming is happening, humans are to blame and we should be concerned: NASA , NOAA and the Royal Society.
Now let's see on the Heartland site we have links to an article by Bast called "Chrichton is Right!" – now that's some science!!
Oh and Mr. Taylor, have you considered DeSmog's debate challenge? Again the title of the debate will be "Smoking is bad for you, really."
The DeSmogBlog will meet any tobacco apologist that Heartland can dig up in any forum.
Are you in? We've posted and reposted around the blog-o-sphere and everyone is waiting for your answer.
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What Would Exxon Do…. if the Heartland Institute came out with a statement that global warming is happening, humans are to blame and we need to begin the switch from oil to renewables?
Would they still give you money???
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This punk-rock interlude would not have surprised Savage's regular listeners, who know him to be, more days than not, a marvellous storyteller, a quirky thinker, and an incorrigible free-associater. He sometimes sounds less like a political commentator than like the star of a riveting and unusually vivid one-man play (he frequently dumps callers, even sympathetic ones, after about a sentence and a half), or a fugitive character out of a Philip Roth novel. Savage seems resigned to the fact that the majority of Americans, including many of his own listeners, just don't get it—just don't get him—and never will. He is a permanent resident of the political wilderness, sending daily dispatches back to the diseased civilization that the rest of us call home.
When President Obama went to Britain for the G-20 summit, Savage devoted a good portion of his show to the dinner menu. He scoffed at the vegetarian options ("That must be the Obama people"), wondered aloud whether a Bakewell tart was "a lady from one of the side streets," and expounded upon his hatred for Irish soda bread, saying, "I don't know what the big deal is—it's full of butter and cream, yuck. Very high rate of heart attack in Ireland." All this talk about food made him think about dinner, so he read the menu from a local seafood restaurant. He took exception to the tilapia ("That's, like, pond-grown—that's the worst") and to the oyster shooter ("It sounds like a dirty thing to order"), and then turned his attention to the frogs' legs. He wondered, "How could you not feel bad for the frog when you eat that?" He compared eating frogs' legs to eating chicken, and soon he was immersed in a philosophical soliloquy about his beloved gray poodle, Teddy:
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Don't even think about it!
I mean, you think about these—would you roast him, how would you eat—
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Your mind starts working on you: No, you're starving. It's you and Teddy. One of you is gonna die anyway. Would you roast him, would you cook him, would you eat him raw?
Aw, stop it, man!
But your mind starts going there. Am I the only one who thinks this way?
Savage abhors animal cruelty (though not as much as he abhors the animal-rights movement), and, as many listeners know, his interest in the natural world predates his identity as a firebrand: he is a scientist by training, and before he became a talk-show host he was the author of more than a dozen books on alternative medicine. Somehow, the years of research made him not a chipper health nut but a melancholy fatalist, all too aware that every day brings with it a new dose of poison for his beleaguered body. "Theoretically, when I get off the air I should go run, I should walk, I should bicycle, I should do a treadmill," he told his listeners, while lamenting that he never followed his own advice. He offered a synopsis of the night before: "The worst thing you could do is go to dinner. I went to dinner. The second-worst thing you could do is have two drinks. I had two beers. The third-worst thing you could do is come right home and watch television. I came right home and watched television. I didn't sleep a minute last night. One nightmare after another." He sighed. "I'll do the same thing again tonight."
To an observer who lacks Savage's exquisite irritability, his daily routine might not seem so bad. He records two or three hours of live radio every weekday, starting at 3 P.M., Pacific Time. (The third hour often includes pretaped commentary, as well as dispatches from politically consonant correspondents.) Savage customarily works from a home studio, or a few of them; he likes to remind listeners that he lives and works in three or four "hidden locations." His main collaborator is his executive producer, Beowulf Rochlen, who is based in Oregon—also the home of Talk Radio Network, which syndicates Savage's show. Because he worries about hearing loss, Savage refuses to use headphones, so he communicates with Rochlen only during breaks, or by means of brusque instructions and admonitions, delivered on the air. At the syndicator's insistence, the show is broadcast with a thirty-second delay, so that particularly inflammatory comments can be expunged. Savage likes to talk about his love of jazz, Cuban music, and early rock and roll, but he begins each hour with a rhythmic crunch of distorted guitars: a collage of riffs from Metallica and Mötley Crüe.
On a Monday afternoon this past spring, less than an hour after the live portion of his show had ended, Savage welcomed a guest into one of his hideouts: a beautiful, clutter-free little house overlooking San Francisco Bay. He was wearing wide-legged linen trousers, sandals, and a short-sleeved shirt printed with palm trees. As part of his training in herbal medicine, Savage did botanical research in Fiji, in the nineteen-seventies, and he still looks a bit like the field researcher he used to be. An oil painting in the living room showed the radio host as a young botanist, with a full beard, holding in his left hand the dark, kidney-shaped fruit of the Degeneria vitiensis plant. It was a bright, unseasonably hot day, and he was installed on the back deck, with Teddy, who seemed to be enjoying the heat more than Savage was. An assistant brought out a cold bottle of Beck's beer, two glasses, and a bowl of salted peanuts.
On his radio show that afternoon, Savage had played tracks by Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane, and he sought to draw a line connecting the music he loved as a boy, the herbal medicine he practiced as a young man, and the political philosophy he advocates now: in each case, he said, he was after a kind of freedom, and he said that it was the big-government liberals who had abandoned freedom and, in a broader sense, abandoned him. But successful rabble-rousing requires a certain kind of optimism—a belief that, sooner or later, your compatriots will come to their senses. And part of what makes his radio show so engrossing is its undercurrent of pessimism: Savage never quite seems able to convince himself that the forces of righteousness will prevail; indeed, he often gives voice to a sneaking suspicion that it doesn't much matter. Sitting on his deck, he cheerfully admitted as much. "I watch shows where they're digging up a mummy from four thousand years ago, bothering a tomb," he said. "That person shaved, brushed his teeth with a stick, took a shit, got laid, whatever. And now what? Who the fuck knows what his politics were?" Across the Bay was the Chevron Richmond Refinery, half hidden between the hills and the coast. "If a terrorist blew it up, it'd be the equivalent of ten nuclear bombs," he said. "I sometimes sit here and think about the fireball."
Because of his antipathy for liberals and his incendiary style, Savage is sometimes seen as an heir to iconic radio provocateurs of an earlier era, like Father Coughlin, who emerged during the Great Depression as an outspoken critic of both capitalist excess and the Communist menace (he later became a more marginal figure, railing against "Jewish bankers"), and Bob Grant, whose caustic broadcasts made him a star in the nineteen-seventies. But when Savage talks about his chief influences he is most likely to mention the old-timers he listened to as a kid in New York: Symphony Sid, the beloved jazz d.j.; Mel Allen, the old Yankees play-by-play man; Jean Shepherd, the pioneering monologuist. From that perspective, Savage might be merely the latest—and probably one of the last—in a long line of garrulous old-school New York radio personalities. (His sensibility isn't so far removed from that of Howard Stern, another Jewish kid from New York with a radio show that thrives on provocation and neurosis. But Savage dismisses Stern as both a "sophomoric sensationalist" and—maybe more damaging—a Long Islander.) The form of Savage's show—the quick cuts from one topic to another, the way familiar political observations give rise to baffling digressions, the fluctuating tension between his blue-state life and his red-state message—is at least as important as its content, which means that it's hard to understand him, and his appeal, at second hand. The immoderate quotes meticulously catalogued by the liberal media-watchdog site mediamatters.org are accurate but misleading, insofar as they reduce a willfully erratic broadcast to a series of political brickbats. You could say something similar about the four books that Savage has placed on the Times best-seller list, including "The Savage Nation," which reached No. 1; all are political polemics, and none capture the freewheeling sensibility of the show or the complicated personality of the man.
Last year, while talk radio (and, for that matter, talk TV) was obsessed with campaign minutiae, Savage couldn't quite decide how much he cared. Despite his fears about Obama, he was lukewarm in his support of Senator John McCain, and frustrated by McCain's faltering campaign. (Savage calls him John McShame, and often suggests, conspiratorially, that he didn't really want to beat Obama. "McCain may as well be a fall guy for the new world order," he said.) He told listeners, "You'll have to go to one of the other talk-show hosts to get 'Obama's a Ma-a-arxist' and 'McCain is a wa-a-ar hero,' " adding, with a trace of self-pity, "I really don't care about it anymore." What he really did care to talk about, more days than not, was his new book, "Psychological Nudity: Savage Radio Stories." He published it himself, and since last October he has been selling it online, through his Web site. "Psychological Nudity" is essentially a series of transcripts of his broadcasts, but this book is more scattershot than its predecessors, more anarchic. There are seventy-five short chapters full of true (or truish) stories; one is only two paragraphs long, and it is called "Savage Liked Art in Grade School and Hubris in Adults." It is by far the best book of his career, partly because it's the least booklike, and partly because it underscores the perverse streak that is among his most appealing qualities. What other political firebrand would self-publish a book of autobiographical anecdotes at the peak of election season?
Now that the Obama era has begun, Savage has been stirred to action by a series of outrages: the Department of Homeland Security report on "right-wing extremism"; the threats to states' rights; the spectre of creeping socialism. But some of his best broadcasts have little to do with the news. One day, he reminisced about working as a caddie in the Catskills, when he was a teen-ager, and offered a brief and rather capricious history of golf. ("It's, like, a British thing," he said. "People had nothing to do with themselves after they pillaged the colonies.") He wondered if it was going to rain in San Francisco, then stopped himself, saying, "I'm not supposed to talk about weather. It's one of the rules of a national show, is you can't talk about anything fun." That made him think about global warming ("global bull," he called it), and the fate of the local salmon, and of salmon in general. "It's gotta swim all the way back, three years later, so it can shoot its sperm on the egg and die," he said. "What a way to live! I guess that's why the French call it the petite mort." That, in turn, reminded him of a "crazy" woman he knew as a child, who was seized by a kind of existential panic: "She took people's hands, even children, and she'd say, 'Tell me, why are we born if we have to die? Why did God give me children if they're gonna die one day?' " Like most of his stories, this one didn't really have an ending. "There's no answer to it," he said. "That's why we're focussed on politics—to make believe that we don't care about the eternal questions. This way, we can get mad at the Republicans, or Nixon—you can say Nixon did it. Or you can hate the Democrats, that they did it. You don't have to face your own problems." He chuckled, as if he had just remembered that millions of people were listening. "You understand this?"
Savage was born Michael Alan Weiner, in 1942, the son of Jewish immigrants, and, like many successful men who started off poor, he loves to talk about the bad old days. His father ran an antique shop on Ludlow Street, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and he put his son to work in the basement, cleaning bronze statues with a toothbrush dipped in a cyanide solution. Apparently, Savage's father believed in the sort of tough love that resembles love only in retrospect. "It was like an Abraham and Isaac relationship," he writes, in "Psychological Nudity," adding, "I think if he had the rock and knife I wouldn't be here today." (Later in the book, he compares Abraham to an "Islamo-fascist.") His mother took care of Michael and, for a time, his younger brother, Jerome, who was "born blind and deaf and unable to hold himself up," in Savage's words. On the advice of a doctor, Jerome was institutionalized—"packed off like an animal to live and suffer and die in silence, alone in one New York snake pit after another."
Although his father tolerated no discussion of religious faith, Savage was raised in a thoroughly Jewish world, and he still winces when he recalls the time he made his sports car backfire in front of the synagogue during Yom Kippur services. ("I mocked my own people and my own religion," he says now.) Because he is a political ally of evangelical Christians, and because he has changed his name, he is sometimes accused of covering up his Jewish roots, or implicitly renouncing them. In fact, his delivery is so steeped in American Jewish culture that non-Jewish listeners might sometimes wonder what he's talking about. After the election of 2000, he wrote a scathing ode to southern Florida and its inhabitants. He called it "the land of suntanned Trotskys in delis," and he lampooned the residents for their loyalty to "Bill, their shameless shaygitz," and "Al, their Shabbos goy." Savage was brought up in a family of Democrats, and it's hard not to read the poem as a complicated homage to his mother, who died in Boca Raton in 2003.
Savage's childhood instilled in him a fondness for hardworking immigrants, paired with (and sometimes overwhelmed by) a disgust for more recent arrivals who seem to be shirking the responsibilities of citizenship. "Borders, language, and culture" is one of his rallying cries: he believes that, in America, all three are under siege, and he points to "illegals" as one of the prime causes. When news broke of the H1N1 flu outbreak, he played mariachi music while gleefully chronicling the virus's progress, and mocking the Obama Administration's refusal to close the borders. But he is also a deeply sentimental man. And so when he noticed that the staff at a local Italian restaurant was "ninety-nine per cent Hispanic people" he was inspired to suggest (on the air, not in the restaurant) the kind of political compromise he usually abhors: "You clean out the thirty per cent of illegal aliens who constitute our prison population, you get rid of the bums on welfare, you cut off free medical care, and I'll tell you what, then you can give everyone else citizenship, as far as I'm concerned."
In 1963, Savage graduated from Queens College with a degree in biology and no particular fondness for conservatism. ("Took me a lifetime to figure out I was brainwashed in school," he says.) He worked briefly as a social worker, and he now says that the job taught him to loathe the welfare state; he became something of a wanderer, and a connoisseur of the counterculture. In New York, he visited Timothy Leary's Millbrook estate; after he moved to Hawaii, he persuaded Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti to come and give a reading. With his wife, Janet Weiner, he settled in the Bay Area in 1974, and he spent years communing with the local beats and hipsters, members of a radical fringe that he now considers a symptom of America's sickness—and, maybe, the sickness that almost claimed him. He has called Ferlinghetti a "jealous little man," and he has said that Ginsberg was "the fucking devil." In "The Savage Nation," he celebrates the death of an unnamed "beatnik" poet—in fact, it's Gregory Corso—whom he calls "one of the blights of the human race."
Even as he was rejecting one counterculture, he was immersing himself in another. In Hawaii, he began his transformation into one of the nation's foremost herbalists, earning master's degrees in anthropology and ethnobotany. He brought his wife along on his expeditions to Fiji, where he collected and analyzed local medicinal plants, and in 1978 he earned a degree that sounds like something from a conservative parody of liberal university culture: a Ph.D. in nutritional ethnomedicine from the University of California at Berkeley. As Michael A. Weiner, he built a small empire as a consultant and the author of a string of crunchy advice books: "Plant a Tree"; "Earth Medicine, Earth Food"; "The Art of Feeding Children Well"; "Maximum Immunity." The books were the fruit of a personal quest: his father had died young (of a heart attack), as had his father's father and, he later learned, his father's father's father; Savage was searching for a way to defy heredity.
Despite the success of the books, he says, he found himself unable to ascend the academic ladder, and he concluded that he was being discriminated against because of his race and his gender. In 1977, he wrote a poem called "The Death of the White Male," which he distributed as a pamphlet fourteen years later. The poem, which was originally conceived as a plea for help to President Carter, is part manifesto and part job application:
I am the smallest
in America, an individual man,
who aligns himself
with no group,
calls himself
by no race,
but strives always for excellence.
Savage says that over the years his political orientation never really changed, but he hasn't always identified with conservatism. He says that his difficulties in academia left him feeling "alienated from society," and helped nudge him out of the liberal orbit. Sather Tower, the main landmark of U.C. Berkeley, is visible from his house, and he is amused by the idea that one lousy tenure-track job might have been enough to prevent him from becoming a radio star. "Had I been given a teaching position, would I have voted for Obama in the last election? I don't know," he said. He thought about it. "That's an interesting question." He thought some more. "The answer is no," he said, finally. "Because I detested doctrinaire liberals even then."
In frustration, he considered moving to Israel. (He visited the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with his wife and children, but couldn't bring himself to stay there. After a few days, he thought he heard the voice of his father, reproaching him from beyond the grave: "You want to turn your son into an immigrant?") In the early nineteen-eighties, Savage found work as a nutritionist at a San Francisco clinic that served mainly gay men, and soon he began seeing early signs of an epidemic that didn't yet have a name: "One of the other doctors, the nicest guy in the world, gets an infection all over his face; he almost goes blind. Then people are starting to get sick. And I'm afraid to wash my hands in the bathroom—I don't know what the hell it is." Savage became convinced that gay bathhouses were helping to spread the virus, and he became an advocate of closing them. "That's when the whole community that I knew turned on me," he says, still sounding shell-shocked. "They called me 'Nazi,' 'fascist.' "
In 1986, Savage published "Maximum Immunity," a well-received book on holistic medicine. (In a blurb, Andrew Weil called it a "survival manual for our times.") The chapter on AIDS begins with a sharp note of criticism: an accusation that the medical establishment is acting "in passive connivance with the homosexual lobby." This is something Michael A. Weiner wrote, but it also sounds like something Michael Savage might say.
The double trauma of the AIDS epidemic—the disease itself and the political fight over it—turned Savage into a lifelong critic of the gay-rights movement. It also seems to have confirmed his instinctive suspicion of pleasure ("To my father, nothing was fun," he once said, by way of asking what's wrong with today's generation) and his fear of decadence. When he argues against gay marriage, he often expresses a disgust with homosexuality itself—decrying "abominable behavior between men," for example. This disgust may extend to heterosexuality, too, and his digressions regularly lead him back to the mysterious link between lust and mortality, two different expressions of the same human flaw. "With Viagra and hair transplants, it's like one continuum from age fifteen till death," he says. "Everyone has dark hair, false teeth, and can be sexually aroused until they go into the coffin." Unlike many men, he doesn't seem to find that an appealing prospect.
By the time he published "The Death of the White Male," Savage was already starting to turn his discontent into a political program that resembled an amped-up version of modern conservatism. The second printing of the pamphlet includes an invitation for readers to join Savage's political organization, the Paul Revere Society, which demanded an end to affirmative action and the abolition of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Savage's son, Russell Goldencloud Weiner, did some work for the Paul Revere Society, and later ran an unsuccessful Republican campaign for the California State Assembly. Russell Weiner had more luck expanding upon his family's other legacy: with inspiration from his herbalist father, he created Rockstar Energy Drink, a hypercaffeinated beverage that is now distributed by PepsiCo. The company, which is based in Las Vegas, sponsors rock concerts and extreme-sports events, and it is also a family business: Janet Weiner is the chief financial officer. (Earlier this month, in response to pressure from activists, Russell Weiner issued a statement distancing the company from any "offensive" statements made by his father, and pledging a hundred thousand dollars to various gay community organizations.)
Over the years, Savage has noticed that his disdain for the mainstream media is widely reciprocated. He is still annoyed about a 2003 London Times article that suggested that he would go down in history as "an apostle of hatred." So when he received an e-mail from a journalist asking for an interview he was deeply suspicious. He read the e-mail on the air—he kept the writer anonymous, and he didn't mention that the request came from The New Yorker—and then asked his listeners, "Should I do the interview or not?" There were four ayes and two nays, one of which came from Jenny in Tucson, who said, "He's just going to mix a little bit of truth with a little bit of lies and make you look pretty bad. He's going to try to do a psychological assessment. Don't do it! Do not do it."
About a week later, Savage revisited the topic—"my continuing correspondence with a big-shot magazine writer." He quoted the latest exchanges, along with his tart response, in which he asked, "Why must all of you in the extreme media paint everyone you disagree with as demonic? Why is the homosexual agenda so important to the midstream media?" He confessed that he had tentatively agreed to do the interview, over the objections of his wife. ("She doesn't trust this guy from a mile away.") A caller urged him to heed her warning. He laughed. "I won't take her advice," he said, adding, "I always make that mistake."
Gruffness is his birthright, inherited from a father whose tyrannical strictness became less baffling to Savage as he grew older. Unlike his father, though, Savage is something of a softie: a political idealist, a sucker for a sob story, and a firm believer in the power of friendship. When he invited the journalist into one of his undisclosed locations, he proved to be a first-rate host, chatty and solicitous. A steady supply of beer refills lubricated the conversation (one of his earliest books was "The Taster's Guide to Beer," which was published in 1977), and as the temperature dropped and the sky above Berkeley started to turn orange he seemed to be working hard to stay suspicious, despite himself. On his show the next day, a caller asked how the interview had gone, and Savage described his interlocutor: "If I told you he looked like Obama, I wouldn't be far from the truth." Coming from him, this sounded like a deeply twisted compliment.
Savage started his radio career in 1994, when, after years of flogging his books on other people's shows, he got himself a tryout on a local station, KGO, filling in for Ray Taliaferro, a liberal African-American commentator whose late-night show is something of a Bay Area institution. He spent a few hours talking about the dangers of affirmative action and illegal immigration, and he says that listeners responded with phone calls that were so vituperative they made him paranoid; driving home in the early hours of the morning, he was afraid someone was following him. He resolved that his radio experiment was over, but the station lured him back for a daytime tryout, which went better, and in 1995 he got his own show, which made him a kind of local antihero, known (and, in certain quarters, beloved) for assailing the liberal culture that dominated the city. By 2000, radio stations around the country were broadcasting him. On the air, he used a new name that made reference to his old life: he called himself Michael Savage, after Charles Savage, the nineteenth-century explorer who introduced guns to Fiji.
His timing was perfect. Conservative talk radio, in its third or fourth or fifth generation, surged anew in the late eighties, after the Federal Communications Commission abolished the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio stations to provide balanced commentary on controversial topics. (Many talk-radio hosts say they fear that the Obama Administration might revive the Fairness Doctrine, or some variant of it.) During the Clinton years, AM radio was home to principled dissent and conspiracy theories, lively satire and dark premonition. In the nineteen-nineties, small-government conservatism sometimes rubbed elbows with more radical philosophies, and on the radio (especially on G. Gordon Liddy's show, which had a peculiar hypnotic power) the political debates of the day sometimes took on a distinctly esoteric flavor: dark mutterings about the death of Vince Foster, commiseration for the Branch Davidians who were killed by federal agents in Waco, sympathy for the militia movement. These days, you can hear traces of this subterranean sensibility in the voice of Glenn Beck, who conjured a mystical fervor when he said, "They don't surround us at all. We surround them."
Now, as in the nineties, the most resonant voice belongs to Limbaugh, who still dominates the conservative talk market that he helped create. His rise stoked demand for more or less like-minded hosts, because radio stations wanted shows to program alongside his—or, sometimes, against his. (Savage began his career by declaring himself to be "to the right of Rush and to the left of God.") And, despite his political prominence, Limbaugh's main legacy might be his media criticism. From the start, it often seemed that his primary target wasn't so much liberal politicians as it was the old-media titans who, in his view, feigned objectivity while working to further their own agendas. His sustained critique helped erode the traditional authority of network news and big newspapers, and also helped undermine the concept of disinterested journalism. There was something postmodern about his insistence that journalists were just another interest group, and that "the news" had its own ideology. Fittingly, he delivered his observations in an orotund voice that was simultaneously an expression of big-media arrogance and, subtly, a parody of it. (Think of his mischievously anodyne slogan "Excellence in Broadcasting.") This was Limbaugh's clever way of acknowledging the paradox of his position as a media skeptic asking for listeners' trust, and it was his way of addressing the weighty questions that any radio personality must face: Who do you think you are? And who do you think you're talking to?
While Limbaugh addresses the faithful, sometimes with a wink, Savage's show is self-conscious in a different way. He freely acknowledges the difference between his life on the radio and his life off it. ("Twenty-one hours a day I live in misery," he once said, when he was feeling unusually cheerful, or unusually glum—it can be hard to tell. "Three hours a day I'm happy.") And he keeps listeners apprised of his rapidly shifting emotions and of his various states of physical not-quite-wellness. During one memorable broadcast, he opened his mail and found an envelope from a relative containing a picture of his father. "I'm older than he was when he died," Savage said, and then he held forth on the inherent certainty and uncertainty of death. He sounded rattled. "I ate nuts during the break, I got this picture, now I'm having palpitations," he said. Trying to recover, he briefly discussed Sunnis and Shiites ("I don't ever want to know the difference"), but found himself distracted, again, by the photograph. "He looked good—look at him," Savage said, as if he were expecting his listeners to agree. "Lotta good it did him."
In March, Savage turned sixty-seven. "Never thought I'd live this long," he says. He has now lasted a full decade longer than his father did, and he seems to feel that somehow this can't be good news. When he was a boy, his father gave him some instructions that he never forgot. "He said to me, 'When I die, you can throw me in a garbage can.' I mean, it shocked the hell out of me—it really freaked me out. The idea of throwing my poor father in a garbage can?" This unsentimental request was also, in a way, a metaphysical brainteaser: Savage was being asked to choose between honoring his father's wishes and honoring his father's body, between obeying him and celebrating him.
Although his father was a devout materialist, Savage seems to have spent much of his life searching for the right way to articulate his Jewish heritage. For a time, in the eighties, he attended Friday-night services at the Chabad House in Berkeley. And he loves to talk about his well-worn Hebrew Bible, which is full of annotations and Post-it notes. Despite his alliance with evangelical Christians, he seems untempted by Christianity itself. "You go to a graveyard, and someone's dead, and they give the mumbo-jumbo," he told his listeners one afternoon. "You want to believe the Resurrection. Do you actually believe it? Many of you do." But, on another afternoon, he riffled through the Book of Revelation in an attempt to explain the latest perfidies of the Obama Administration. "We now have a prophecy emerging in front of our eyes," he said.
When Savage gets really apocalyptic, it can be hard to separate his political observations from his medical complaints, and maybe he's not quite convinced that they really are separate. Recently, he has had vision problems, which have come to acquire a symbolic significance. "I feel as though, almost, I'm losing my sight from looking every day at such horror," he says. "I feel as though my eyes are closing on me, because they don't want to see it anymore." When he talks on the air about his homes in "hidden locations," he suggests that he's worried about some crazed liberal assassinating him. "I have to watch out for them, because they're all psychopaths," he says. Listen to Savage long enough and you may be persuaded to think that liberalism is code for all the stupid things we just can't conquer: weakness and decadence and human frailty and death itself.
Near the end of "Psychological Nudity," Savage writes, "I'm watching the sands of time fall into the hourglass. There's more sand on the bottom now than there is on the top." And he makes reference to his own death with startling frequency: a few times an hour, week after week. Just about anything can set him off. A beautiful pair of Shetland sheepdogs in the mall reminds him of the dogs' kindly owner, which in turn reminds him of unkind dog owners, which makes him think about Michael Vick's dogfighting operation, which brings to mind dead dogs, which leads him, inexorably, to a consideration of "the old boxeroo, waiting at the end of the road for all of us." His thoughts on dying are often informed by Buddhist theories of enlightenment and reincarnation, and during one digression he staged his own afterlife as an improvised two-character dramatic scene:
GOD: There is no time. The whole thing is all a racket. There's no time. Clocks have no meaning, Dali was closer to the truth: they're all bent. Because the hands move but nothing else moves. So here's what it is, Mike, you're gonna be reborn again in Mt. Sinai Hospital, in the year you were born, to the exact same parents, and you're gonna go through the very same life again.
MICHAEL SAVAGE (deceased): No! I don't want that!
GOD: Why? It was so bad? You want me to make you a bug?
SAVAGE: No, but do I have to do that all—everything, again? The meatball on the wall, the whole thing, the fights in grade school, all over again? Love by the sewer plant, the nympho in Alley Pond Park, affirmative action, the radio career?
GOD: Why, that wasn't good enough for you? Would you like something else?
SAVAGE: No, God. I'll take it.
Savage is still preoccupied with the death of the white male—only now he's worried about one in particular. Being on the radio makes him feel "immortal," he says, but talk radio, an old format that has already outlived its era, is an impractical way to cheat death. Even in an age when every broadcast is recorded and archived, all those thousands of hours of oration don't have much of an afterlife. Talk radio is meant to be consumed in real time, as a running commentary on the issues and outrages of the day. It provides its stars with a funny sort of immortality: one that lasts only as long as they keep talking.
This year, Savage is celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of his radio career. On the air one day, he marked the occasion in typically perverse fashion: by thinking of all the listeners who stuck around, and all the ones who didn't. "Some were fifteen, they're now thirty," he said. "Some were five, they're now twenty. They grew up on me. Their fathers are dead; the guys who had it playing in the car are gone. They're still here, they can't believe it. I'm their voice of freedom. I'm the last hope. I'm the beacon. I'm the Statue of Liberty. I'm Michael Savage. I'll be back." ♦


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Amazon just might be building a smartphone, according to the Taiwan Economic News. It claims Amazon has ordered 5 million devices and will launch the phone in the middle of 2013.
This is one of those rumors that pops up every so often. It's not very reliably sourced, so we can't say that there's a phone coming with much certainty. Reports about an Amazon phone have been kicking around for a long time. Amazon has done well with the Kindle Fire, a phone needs to be much more than just a content delivery system. And because of that, we're hoping this rumor is actually just a rumor. [Taiwan Economic News via Engadget via 9to5Mac]


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For now what you see here below is a tiny sample: the entire Montale line as I believe is available in the West - 88 100ml bottles including the two most recent and two discontinued ones, and five bottles exclusive to the Middle Eastern market for a total of 93. The L'Artisans in the other photo number 57 - 100ml bottles but this line is obviously not complete. These are the two lines of which I have the most in number, but there are many other smaller lines, designer and niche, that are also complete. These two lines here comprise 9% of my total collection of 1,610 as it stands today. I am also not the best with a camera and almost never post images so please excuse any lapses with the quality of the photos. Taking photos while I enjoy it, is not my forte. In the future I will try to get as much of my collection posted in the other photo thread in this forum, but in my time, so that those who might be interested can view them. I am very proud of the collection I have built up over many years and hope you enjoy the two photos. I thank all of you who have been patiently waiting and wondering for so long. Finally, to the cynical and dubious individual who in another thread a week ago entitled "Hobby or Addiction" posted through veiled language that I was basically a liar about my collection, I have no kind words to offer.
Edited by hednic - 10/16/13 at 10:33pm