At the same time Gore drones on and on with character assassinations, straw man arguments and out-of-context weather anecdotes, more than two dozen global warming experts will join Watts discussing the science Al Gore hopes we will overlook.

FORBES: Finally, Al Gore Gets The Televised Debate He's Been Avoiding For Years

Thus, we need -- as is being proposed -- to toughen the laws on "straw man" purchases and firearms trafficking and to make it a federal crime to transport a gun into a state where possession of that gun would be illegal.

CNN: Did we learn nothing from Newtown?

Another sop to the soft-hearted 21st-century modern man is the option of using straw to pad your socks and hopefully cushion the blows.

CNN: Cotswolds Olimpicks: Shin-kicking at the 'other' Games

" But Lord Longford said: "I am very sorry indeed that a high-minded man, a Christian socialist, like Jack Straw should have taken that decision.

BBC: Longford 'disgusted' that Hindley will die in jail

If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Many of the foot-dragging arguments against the common supervisory plan were based on little more than straw man arguments.

FORBES: In EU, A Victory for Common Sense on Banking Union