Various & Sundry

[luna_k]

It's so fucking hot here in DC I can barely think. At 11am, it's already 92 degrees with a heat index of 98 - with a projected high temp of 102/heat index 111. GAH!!!! Stupid global warming. What's it like where you live?

Anyways, have some linkspam.

++ UK & California are circumventing the Bush administration to fight global warming. Nifty! More from LA Times.

++ Related: 22 cities joining Clinton iniative to curb global warming.

++ From a couple days ago: South Dakota voters are against the state's draconian abortion laws.

++ The Myth of the Angry Left.

++ Creationism gets a smackdown in Kansas. More from Thoughts from Kansas.

++ The Senate just backed more offshore drilling. Exxon must have called and reminded them who their daddy was.

++ Harold Meyerson has a great editorial on the "maximum gall" of Congress trying to tack tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy alongside the minimum wage raise.

++ Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) lost his nephew in Iraq this weekend.

++ Take the New Yorker's Bush quiz!

++ The Swiftboat Veterans for Lies & Defamation are back, this time targeting Rep John Murtha.

++ Part Four in LA Times series on ocean pollution tackles the plague of plastic choking the sea.

++ Tropical Storm Chris is likely to become the seasons' first hurricane.