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...