Links I found interesting for 25-10-2015

[nwhyte]

• Hurricane Patricia was made worse by climate change
  Crumbs.
  (tags: climatechange mexico )
• The End of Expertise
  Are we all doomed? ("we" = "people in my line of work")
  (tags: work )
• Trey Gowdy Just Elected Hillary Clinton President
  Best piece I've read on this bizarre event. "These morons in Gowdy's committee were so bent on proving that Hillary is

Comments

[andrewducker]

The situation in Portugal - any idea what's going on there?

As someone just pointed out on my journal, there doesn't seem to be a lot that's being gained here - they're just postponing the inevitable when a vote of no confidence is taken and a new government is formed.

[nwhyte]

There's a certain amount of spin around this in the English-speaking press, abetted by the usual quarters - the peculiar alliance of the economic Left and the Eurosceptic Right.

It's not outrageous, as some imply, that the President asks the leader of the largest party to attempt to form a government. There was no pre-election coalition, as some imply, between the centre left and the far left.

Yes, the President (who is in his last couple of months in office) is probably handling this situation badly, but to present it as a Brussels coup against the will of the people, as some are doing, is stretching the situation well beyond the facts.

[andrewducker]

Thank you!