Friday, July 20, 2012

WTF?















I imagine the academics will soon be on TV with a whole slew of spurious theories and explanations. Right now, I wouldn’t hazard a guess at the reality of the madness, except to note that Aurora and Columbine are both suburbs of Denver,

The secret word is Insanity 

Thursday, July 19, 2012

IT’S HAPPENING AND IT’S HAPPENING NOW
















While the oil industry continues to pump millions into climate change denial, our pals at Common Dreams bring us this bit of scary intelligence.

“A massive iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken off one of Greenland's major glaciers -- a development which scientists say is due to alarming warming in the region.
The iceberg, measuring 46 square miles, is the second of its nature to break from Greenland in just two years. In 2010 an iceberg twice its size, one of the largest ever recorded in Greenland, broke free. "It's dramatic. It's disturbing," said University of Delaware professor Andreas Muenchow, one of the first researchers to notice the break. "We have data for 150 years and we see changes that we have not seen before. It's one of the manifestations that Greenland is changing very fast." "This is not part of natural variations anymore," said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot, referring to the vast changes the glacier has seen in the past three years. Scientists are concerned about rising sea levels due to melting ice in the north. The Arctic had the largest sea ice loss on record for June, scientists reported this week, and Northern Greenland and Canada are warming five times faster than the average global temperature. "The Greenland ice sheet as a whole is shrinking, melting and reducing in size as the result of globally changing air and ocean temperatures and associated changes in circulation patterns in both the ocean and atmosphere" 

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The secret word is Wet

THE FROZDICK FAMILY













Luther Frozdick was inordinately proud of his bomb collection.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

WILL I SURVIVE THE OLYMPICS?













They increasingly encroach on my TV. They delay traffic as their absurd torch passes through the town. London public transport may collapse under the strain. Helicopter gunships are promised, cruising overhead like we were still in Saigon waiting for a mission. Warships are parked in the Thames. Residents’ protests are ignored as SAM missiles are mounted on the roofs of tower blocks. 3,500 squaddies have been recalled from leave to bail out G4S after the security giant failed to complete a contract with the wholly inept Tory Home Office to train and deploy the 10,000 security staff. But, on the other side of the cluster-fuck, corporate goons in purple uniforms – with the power to enter shops and offices near Olympic sites and hand out $31,000 fines for the 'misuse' of words such as "gold", "silver" and "bronze", "summer", "sponsors" and "London." – will prowl the streets of East London protecting the sponsorship rights of McDonald's, Coca-Cola, BP Oil, General Electric, Adidas, Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble and the rest. These manifestations of the 2012 Olympic spirit seem just a tad too shamefully  reminiscent of 1936 and the picture above. And maybe I’ll be arrested for writing this under one of the new Olympic laws we don't know about.

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The secret word is Run


Kitty Wells – RIP