Global warming produces fucked up weather not necessarily just hot weather, no?
I believe that's why many people use "global climate change" these days.
Love makes you do the wacky.
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Dec 11, 2008 9:28:41 am PST #5508 of 10002
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
amych - Dec 11, 2008 9:29:08 am PST #5509 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm not sure that's so paranoid, Burrell -- that particular crazy isn't all of climate change denial, but it's a part of it.
(edited because megan is wise on climate change vs. warming)
Burrell - Dec 11, 2008 9:33:08 am PST #5510 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Perhaps I should clarify. In my more paranoid moments I suspect that such people currently occupy the White House.
Connie Neil - Dec 11, 2008 9:47:26 am PST #5511 of 10002
brillig
I wonder how many people are going to start dismissing global warming because it snowed in NOLA.
OH, yeah, they'll say, "But hte earth's gone through ice ages before, and really, how long have we had good weather data? It's nothing."
Allyson - Dec 11, 2008 9:52:19 am PST #5512 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Fortunately, the new people in charge don't seem to be bullshitty about such things.
I don't know how you folks with little ones resist the urge to scream, sometimes. All I have is my niece and nephew, and Grace and Noah for wee ones who I love to pieces, and when I let myself think about the steaming pile of shit they're inheriting, my rage is not unlike the sun in its nuclear hot fury.
shrift - Dec 11, 2008 9:54:58 am PST #5513 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I don't like it when I find out that I may have to do even more Christmas shopping on top of all the Christmas shopping I haven't done.
Jessica - Dec 11, 2008 9:57:37 am PST #5514 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't know how you folks with little ones resist the urge to scream, sometimes.
Too tired.
Toddson - Dec 11, 2008 9:59:23 am PST #5515 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
why is it that in the area of screwing up the world Bush decided to become an overachiever?
DavidS - Dec 11, 2008 10:06:59 am PST #5516 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
and when I let myself think about the steaming pile of shit they're inheriting, my rage is not unlike the sun in its nuclear hot fury.
I try to maintain the historical perspective that my children were not born into the Black Plague, slavery or a debtor's prison.
Burrell - Dec 11, 2008 10:15:31 am PST #5517 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I don't know how you folks with little ones resist the urge to scream, sometimes.
I find my rage is tempered by the same irrational optimism that led to me to have kids in the first place.
I try to maintain the historical perspective that my children were not born into the Black Plague, slavery or a debtor's prison.
That third one may be making a come back.
Speaking of rage, I get rageful when I think about how much slavery there still is in the world.