It's not just all the climate change denialists that are coming out of the woodwork, grasping at every straw to prove their point; nor the greenalists who don't believe that anyone can question their proclamations; nor the rest of us in the middle, who find it hard to be a reactionary for either side (how ludicrous to have SIDES in the face of such an important problem), worried that we will be laughed at if proved wrong; nor the detracting and pointless argument about whether this is man-made or not; nor the preposterous machinations that the politicians at the Copenhagen…

  I discovered an interesting new facial care routine. Well, I say discovered. What I mean is "A thing in a box arrived on my doorstep and I feel compelled to now pretend it is brilliant because otherwise I will have to answer all manner of complicated questions."   It's always nice to receive surprises, and even more so when they appear to be quite expensive pieces of facial-buffing technology. The kind of thing that you might, say, stick a battery in, hold to your face and wait, patiently, while it foams up, rubs, buffs, polishes and makes you more…