Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I see that a lot, tommyrot. Makes me a bit sad. Although I hated being forced to wear a helmet when I was a kid, too. OTOH, all that they had then were big Bell mushroom helmets. So kids today have it easy! /Yorkshireman
I remember being 19 or so and heading off to a barbeque or somesuch on the back of my friend Dave's motorcycle and my mom trying to get my dad to make me wear his old flight helmet from the Navy. I was having no part of it.
The right’s climate denialism is part of something much larger
Consider what the Limbaugh/Morano crowd is saying about climate: not only that that the world's scientists and scientific institutions are systematically wrong, but that they are purposefully perpetrating a deception. Virtually all the world's governments, scientific academies, and media are either in on it or duped by it. The only ones who have pierced the veil and seen the truth are American movement conservatives, the ones who found death panels in the healthcare bill.
It's a species of theater, repeated so often people have become inured, but if you take it seriously it's an extraordinary charge. For one thing, if it's true that the world's scientists are capable of deception and collusion on this scale, a lot more than climate change is in doubt. These same institutions have told us what we know about health and disease, species and ecosystems, energy and biochemistry. If they are corrupt, we have to consider whether any of the knowledge they've generated is trustworthy. We could be operating our medical facilities, economies, and technologies on faulty theories. We might not know anything! Here we are hip-deep in postmodernism and it came from the right, not the left academics they hate.
Damn, the Evanston Police still have the same 6 square blocks blocked off. I think they've been there since 7:00 am.
The buyer for my co-op was approved by the board!!!!! WHOOT!
Wooo!
Yay msbelle!
WTF, Tommy. Still?
YAY!!!!
so much happy dance! I just happy danced in my front yard and embarrassed mac. happy happy joy joy. I WANT TO CLOSE IN A WEEK! t / dreamer.
Yay msbelle!
WTF, Tommy. Still?
Yep. My usual bike ride commute would have taken me a block (or less) away from the scene. They have three North/South streets and two East/West streets blocked off with people there to make sure no one gets through. I don't know if they're letting people who live there through.