Change We Can Believe In

Remember all those most-wonderful slogans bubbling up from Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, like ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ and ‘Yes, We Can,” which was chanted en-mass whenever the other motto ran out of steam. The phrases were so effective and catchy, even Jackboot John McCain tried to get into the act, stealing Obama’s thunder…

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Everyday Life and ‘Global Weirding’

As Joplin, Missouri, gleans through horrific wreckage, the rest of us must beware of a new life style. From Reuters: Heavy rains, deep snowfalls, monster floods and killing droughts are signs of a “new normal” of extreme U.S. weather events fueled by climate change, scientists and government planners said on Wednesday. “It’s a new normal…

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Perilous World

Weather horror back East is only a prelude to the coming commonplace. A tornado onslaught yesterday killed 159 people across the US south, 128 in my birth state of Alabama — a catastrophic situation which will only get worse as man-influenced climate change increases these “extreme events” to a weather-related new normal. Film of the…

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Flatulence In The Face Of Disaster

From Wikipedia: The noises commonly associated with flatulence are caused by the vibration of the anal sphincter, and occasionally by the closed buttocks. Hence, we now understand the operational capacity of  ‘sphincter-says-What‘-Republicans and other asshole entities. Yesterday, I put $20 worth of gas in my Jeep Comanche, but we won’t go real far at $4.39…

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