predictably odd

Half-baked contrarian Alexander Cockburn still in denial about global warming, pretends to be scientist in the pages of The Nation. There ought to be a name for this sort of stubborn irrationalist tick/dogmatist contrarianism festering in otherwise highly functioning (if profoundly vain) men, like Tom Cruise's or John Travolta's "scientology." And then Zizek could write a book about it (ZCWAB).