last day of the Tour de France tomorrow.

My best friend is THERE. And by "THERE," I mean she's in Paris, staying in the SAME hotel that Lance, et al., are staying in. She's going to be on the freaking Champs Elysee tomorrow when the cyclists come riding in.

Bitch.

Went to cold stone ( not the gelotto place which I like better) . Tried the wasabi icecream. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. Interesting was the best I could come up with.

But no one told me they had black licorice ice cream. That was amazing. and no one else really wants it but me...Unfortunatley I want a lot.

Yummy. Not just you. Is it black?

But no one told me they had black licorice ice cream. That was amazing. and no one else really wants it but me...Unfortunatley I want a lot.

Me! Me!

Yummy. Not just you. Is it black?

actually grey. and unattractive. which makes peopl even less curious to taste it.

I should have known Plei and erika would want some . people with good taste.

I am thinking I need to figure out how to make ice cream with sambuca

actually grey. and unattractive.

I'd just close my eyes and just let the taste do the talkin!

Argh. I was getting ready for bed, but now I am far too angry to go to sleep. I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS BULLSHIT!!!

From Slashdot:

"The Washington Post reports that House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tx) has requested raw data and personal financial information on three scientists who published a paper which claimed that temperatures rose precipitously in the 20th century. Colleagues (including other Republicans) are calling the investigation 'misguided and illegitimate.' Barton has long been an opponent of government action on global warming."

From the Washington Post:

Many scientists and some of Mr. Barton's Republican colleagues say they were stunned by the manner in which the committee, whose chairman rejects the existence of climate change, demanded personal and private information last month from researchers whose work supports a contrary conclusion. The scientists, co-authors of an influential 1999 study showing a dramatic increase in global warming over the past millennium, were told to hand over not only raw data but personal financial information, information on grants received and distributed, and computer codes.

How long will conservatives be allowed to harass scientists who publish data that disagrees with Republican ideology?

God, I don't know what else to say. Except that for the past five years there's been a long series of attempts by conservatives to silence scientific results they don't like....

OK, the fact that some Republicans are shocked by this is a good sign.

Crap. Sorry.

Does "hung" have a baseball meaning to it?

It does. And sliders can hang when they don't break. As do curveballs. They're just hanging up in the strike zone, and very hittable.

Sorry about the rage-on, tommyrot, but it's totally justified.

I recommend watching Charlie & the Chocolate Factory since that made me laugh on numerous occasions, though mostly from the production numbers. Deep Roy is a very committed performer.

But no one told me they had black licorice ice cream. That was amazing. and no one else really wants it but me...Unfortunatley I want a lot.

One of my favourite ice cream flavours that I don't see very often is tiger tail, which is like creamsicle orange with black licorice through it. So good.

For a response from the scientist themselves go to this blog run by some of our leading climate scientists.

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I've been in a rage on this particular issue for the last two years ever since I began work on a book about the subject. Though this is not the only area in which routine supression of science takes place, it is one of the most deadly. In a way it is like Holocaust denial, since unchecked global warming will kill as many people or more than the Holocaust did. In a way it is worse, because Holocaust denial dishonors the dead, but global warming denial helps those murders take place.