On Saturday it was 80˚F. Last night it snowed. Don't tell me we haven't broke this planet. Maybe this shit is normal somewhere or another, but it's not normal here. We got maybe a quarter of an inch here, starting about midnight, but it made the trees pretty. I heard that up in Huntsville they got about 5 inches. Our low last night was a little ( Read more... )

The Final Cut. Children of Men. Global warming. Polar bears. My head goes round and round in these circles.

For the most part, Planet Earth seems to be keeping mentions of humanity's impact to a minimum, but the polar-bear sequences stand out in stark contrast, an exception to the rule. This appears to have resulted from the camera men ( Read more... )

Well, on the bright side, we get new islands. So what if all the polar bears are drowning. I'm sure President Asshole and Co. have paid some neocon think tank to demonstrate a link between polar bears, homosexuality, and Islamic terrorism.

Meanwhile, a diverse new marine fauna has been discovered off the coast of Indonesia, including a previously ( Read more... )