The Relation Between Climate Change & Bad Weather

Has anybody reminded you lately, just HOW fucked we are? Here's a brief reminder, encased in a very funny, very smart Sam Seder epistemological meteorology report.

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Ricky Gervais Has Pretty Much Got The Whole "Creationism" Thing Sussed

"Look! The Sun Is Coming BACK! Hooray!"

It's a celebration of some of the very first, truly scientific thought: the careful observation of the seasons!

Dept of Cops Are Pigs: Provocateurs Infiltrate Union Demonstration

"The map is not the territory." Ct. Alfred Korsybski, founder of "General Semantics."

I just LOVE maps. I think I must have a cartographer's soul, given any soul at all. Here are a couple/few that have recently7 come to my attention:

1: This is a map representing the size of the area which some, perhaps many, subscribers to a theory of "Eretz Israel" claim as the 'biblical/Torahnic' territory of an historical "Israel."

2: This is a map of the relative sizes of the two claimant nations to the North American Continent in 1824. Mexico had become a State only in 1821, and laid claim to vast stretches of the western half of the Continent.

3: This is a map of the 'political States' of newly fragmented, 'devolved' North America, where the United States has fragmented into it's cultural pieces.
4: When, due to temporal dislocation, none of the maps are of any use, follow the signs:

Ex-CIA Officer Says Wikileaks Is Doing The Press' Job

Bob Alberti in comments thread on FB, where this vid prompted a brief discussion, wrote:

I really hoped McGovern was going to say "You're not a journalist, you're a spokesperson. You're a talking head. You'll say whatever rolls up on that teleprompter without questioning its veracity. That's your job and you do it well, but just because you're on the TV doesn't mean you're a journalist."

Amen...

Ex-CIA Officer Says Wikileaks Is Doing The Press' Job

Bob Alberti in comments wrote:

I really hoped McGovern was going to say "You're not a journalist, you're a spokesperson. You're a talking head. You'll say whatever rolls up on that teleprompter without questioning its veracity. That's your job and you do it well, but just because you're on the TV doesn't mean you're a journalist."

Amen...

LBJ, Imagined: Some Lessons For The Current Incumbent

President Obama (aka, "Shamwow," and "ThePrez") has been having difficulties getting the Congress to take seriouly his agenda, and to act upon it "with all deliberate speed."

My more reasonable, more reflective, more moderate doppelganger, Prof Wombat, inscribed this report "overheard" from the ether:

Were Lyndon Johnson, say, pushing DADT repeal (or "the public option," for that matter), he'd have invited every Senator over to the WhiteHouse for lunch. The following colloquy might have ensued:

"Y'know, son, WE have the majority.

"You represent the good citizens of the State of (...), who'd like their bridges to remain safe to drive on, their farmers to be subsidised, their water to keep flowing, their airports and airlines still in service, their state's businesses the beneficiary of military contracts, and like that, I am sure you'd agree?

"I am equally certain they'd also like to be sure that, next time they vote for a Senator, they aren't voting for someone who fucks pigs and eats small, cute puppies.

"Senator, I'm the president of all the people, and I naturally care about your constituents too, and appreciate your desire to do well by them. I really do, and I'd like to help and your constituents, too continue to enjoy the benefits of Federal beneficence.

"So, now, let us come and reason together...And don't fucking forget who I am, you fucking asshole.

I'd guess they'd have eked it out...

I think what the folks who complained that BHO wasn't "experienced" enough for the job had something like this in mind, cuz on his BEST day, you cannot imagine the grinning, meliorating, negotiating, give-away artist having the STONES to lay down the law.

What's Your Credit Score, Little Girl?

Santa Fe's arch-satirist, Jim Terr, with over 300 vids on his hymie-hymie site, has one for just about ANY occasion.

I'm Gonna Miss This Guy: Alan Grayson on Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich

He is/was erudite, polished, funny, intellectual,combative, and now, sadly,

GONE...A casualty of the CU-decision juggernaut.