Oh, and a weather report. Our 2 weeks of drought was broken by a nice rain on Sunday. The rain was just the right amount and fell gently over several hours. No thunder or flooding reported. We're getting some more rain today. Now it is coolish by the lake, but I don't mind. Though I'd like to see another warm spell before I have to bring certain plants back inside.
Hi. Sorry I haven't had time to check in every day; got some projects on the front burner. I still hope to do a quick Liz Appearances report with links. She has not been idle.
Trroll patrol: Yesterday on the Catoggio thread the orange fishsticks guy did an ad hominem on me because he was mad at me for chiming in on something, and insisted that is not allowed. He keeps demanding people tell him what they believe and I had a thought about what another commenter might have meant by something he wrote. I got 14 likes when I said I believe everyone is allowed to post a comment without being expressly invited. He apparently alluded to that when he later posted a claim that people are "ganging up" on him.
Anyway, the ad hominem said something like "sorry to break it to you, but you are far from the sharpest pencil." I think he also ordered me never to comment on anything he said, or something like that. I looked a little while later and found that comment had disappeared. Not even a line saying a comment had been removed. Don't know whether it was him, or Dispatch moderator, or what. He posted more comments asking (from him it sounds like demanding, apparently in this guy's world everything not forbidden is compulsory) that I tell him what I believe about this, that, and the other. Sorry, kid (he sounds like one to me) but I already saw your ad hominem even though I didn't reply, and you're still expecting me to complete your homework assigment? Or you imagine you're a journalist demanding statements from a public figure (me) at a press conference? If you really want to know what I believe, don't start by coming at me with Attitude. Oh, and he assumes I am a guy.
Thanks for confirming. I had that one tentatively pegged to avoid.
I may need to start keeping a little list again so I don't get confused. Full-on trolls I just skip right over, but I cannot always remember which of the people I generally see eye to eye with on issues may not be worth interacting with because they have behavior problems.
If you have them, I haven't noticed. You're always nice to me too, IIRC.
I probably also should have said I can have perfectly nice interactions with people who disagree with me respectfully. It might be civil discussion of issues, or it might be wacky badinage or off-topic interests. These last two are not time-wasters. They are the subatomic forces that keep the particles orbiting properly so that the commenting community stays healthy and not radioactive.
What I am NOT looking forward to is finger pointing at humans for causing all this stuff that has been happening for a few/several/unknown number of millions years. We continue to choose, live and develop places that are not suitable for habitation.
Natural variation is a part of our climate. FWIW & IMHO our experts and their models don't adequately incorporate that into their models.
About a third of my research involves "abnormal returns", where we eliminate the natural variation so we can examine changes due to some cause. Both play a role in change, and separating them matters.
I picked up my chain saw yesterday. It turns out the gas in my gas can had water in it. The gas can is sealed, but apparently not nightly enough. I think I might put duct tape about it. Hopefully that won't cause an explosion. I think this weekend I might fire it up! 😀
Duct tape...sheesh.... Why is it people continue to think duck tape is useful. Forget duct tape. Get a new can...one of those frustrating things with the nozzle thingie that prevents accidental pouring of gasoline onto your feet...or something.. If you insist on using duck tape, get GORILLA tape or similar. It's worth the extra dough.
What makes you think I'm not already? It's a very closely held secret so far, but Elon's got an independently wealthy older brother who's never admitted kinship with him in public and who's recently made a major tech purchase in the online world. (Bari Weiss has already been in contact about a YouTube Files project.)
I'm counting on your discretion in this matter. Don't make me get my lawyers involved.
This morning is my annual Medicare checkup. For some reason, I thought it was yesterday, even though I had the correct date on my calendar. I wonder if this is going to count against me?! Maybe I was worrying too much about the 3 words they’ll want me to memorize, so they can see if I still remember them 5 minutes later. Or maybe it’s because I’ve been thinking about that clock face I’ll have to draw, and then draw the hands in the correct location for some random time the nurse gives me. Honestly, I find the entire thing insulting. My cholesterol is high (not off the charts), so the PA will ask me again if I’m interested in going on statins, to which I think she already knows the answer. Same with the bone density test because I refuse to take those drugs, too. Otherwise, I’m sure it will be a cheerful visit!
And on a more upbeat note, has anyone watched “American Fiction?” It’s on Amazon Prime, and I got about halfway through it last night. If you’re familiar with it, it won an Oscar; I’m not sure I’d go that far, but it IS good (so far)!
I saw American Fiction. Starts GREAT with a FANTASTIC premise, I love Jeffrey Wright, and then it just goes all over the place. It couldn't decide what it was trying to say and ended up trying to say too much about way too many serious things.
Thanks, Kurt. That’s good to know. I’m about 3/4 of the way done now, and it’s starting to get very “preachy.” (How many topics can we cover for you naive, phobic people?!) A friend said the ending was a surprise, but she liked it. Normally we have very similar tastes, but I’m not so sure about this one.
Right. I love the premise, then it goes all over the place. Chekhov’s Gun applies….i.e., if it doesn’t serve the primary thesis, it has no place in the production.
😂 I WISH those were the words! I could just look at the nurse, and start laughing!! Usually it’s something like firetruck, bicycle and glasses. My brother says he always fails! 😳 Every time I have to do the damn clock, I wonder what they’ll do when they get to the generation that only sees digital clocks!
Good luck with the checkup. Today's three words to remember are
1) Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
2) Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (I think it's a fear of long animal names)
3) Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
I'm sure you'll ace it!
Christy once asked me why I never wore a watch: was it because I enjoyed being late or because I couldn't tell time? I told her I had been given a Mickey Mouse watch as a child, and seeing a rodent with uneven arms traumatized me! She laughed at that one.
The words were desk, ocean, tractor. And I thought I was being smart because she asked me to repeat them, so I did it in reverse. THEN she asked me later (I thought we were done), and I forgot DESK! 🤣
I have been asked why I don't wear a beard. I respond that I was scared by a beard as a young child. It's true. I can still see that guy with the red hair and beard smiling like an over caffeinated clown. I started to recover, then the 70's happened with all those beards and bib overalls and it deepened the trauma.
I wear a beard (it's white now, but requires I keep it short, no santa for me).
When we adopted our daughter, she had never seen a man before, let alone a beard. She took one look at me and began screaming. I probably looked like a grizzly bear waiting to eat her.
Once outside, I gave her a cookie, she liked it, I gave her two more and a cup of apple juice. She decided I was alright, maybe I was the cookie monster's little brother?
Subduction. The current cooling could mean the North Atlantic current could subduct, which will turn England and the northern Scandinavian countries into a glacier. It's happened dozens/hundreds/thousands of times over geologic time and it will probably happen again. "Weather" is something that we do not understand, and only by the recent research of the last several decades do we even have a clue about WHAT happened let alone HOW it happened and we know not at all what WILL happen. A teeny tick in the angle inclination of our little blue pill, which it does all the time, could mean....something.
The same subduction could mean Florida turns into a temperate climate instead of tropical, etc., etc. Ancient people were smart enough to try and not live in areas where bad meteorological stuff happens. It's only modern humans with their insistence on developing civilizations focused on...wait, I lost focus...what was I talking about...(?)...
Money? As in trade is lucrative, shipping efficiently transfers the sources of lucre, ships require ports....oceans....hurricanes.
Trade generated so much money that people could afford to build disposable houses - really nice fancy ones, with marble showers and carpet and nice kitchens - because flood insurance.
I don't know who pays for removing structures when they wash into the marsh during a storm.
I enjoy marsh archeology. I found an intact lid for a 1940s refrigerator dish one time.
Indiana's lakes were made by receding glaciers. So, Southern Indiana is hilly, central Indiana is flat, and northern indiana has tons of lakes. Almost three different states in one! Those of you wanting to know what central indiana is like, it's like "western central Ohio"....
I woke up to a downpour, it cleared but another shower has moved in. A friend was supposed to do a blacksmithing demo here this week but it was cancelled because of fire risk...
FP has good articles today. So does Commentary. Seth Mandel isn't my favorite guy on their podcast - that would be Abe Greenwald - but Seth is good on the blog with short pieces that have a clear thesis and good facts.
I'm getting my Israel news from the "Times of Israel Daily Briefing" podcast.
The Free Press is uneven, in my opinion, but they have such a variety of writers and content that there's almost always something that interests me on any given weekday. I rarely say much in the comments besides, "Interesting news today," or "Good article," but even that can get deranged reactions from some of the participants there. It's probably not a large percentage of loo-loos, but they are really verbose and reactive.
Yeah, I seldom say anything in the comments of the FP anymore. I used to a lot more when it was under its previous title. Was that just Honestly? I can't recall.
I do like the mix of stuff there. I read everything at the mothership. Some of the FP. And a little at The Atlantic. I'm trying to decide if I can justify their subscription. It's all so predictable that I don't often get past a couple of paragraphs in many pieces.
We subscribe to FP, and I like it, but we probably won’t continue our subscription. I already have too much to read and listen to. Love Commentary podcast.
Howdy. It's Tuesday here and I'm off to help see that the nursing home folks are ready to vote. We've got 20-ish facilities in this county with a couple of thousand residents who could vote. By law in Tennessee, we go to the facilities in teams of twos -- not ark-like, but one D and one R -- to help them through the process. Today, we'll be going through voter lists and getting prepared for our teams.
I'm retired from that county election office. But they pay me a part-time wage to help out because ... presidential election! Lots of registrations, lots of absentee ballots to be sent. Generally speaking, they're busy and need help. So, I'm pitching in because they're my friends.
With regard to nursing homes -- and almost all election law -- first, keep in mind that it varies by state.
Here in Tennessee, the only person who can prevent a person from voting is a judge. And I'm not aware of one ever interfering with the right to vote because someone was not of *sound mind. Anyone in elder care facilities CAN go to the polls to vote, if they like. Our workers going to the faclities is a convenience to them. We set up machines in a common area -- like where they eat meals. What Tennessee did was stop sending absentee ballots to nursing homes, assisted living, etc. Why? Because it's not clear who was actually doing the voting. Even a power of attorney does not give one the right to vote for someone else here.
Now, anyone who wants to vote gets to do so without having to leave their facility. Our nursing home poll workers read ballots to those who need it, and help them other ways. But there is no coercion to vote or not or for any candidate. The nursing home voting teams are a special troop. They work long hours for a tiny stipend and show tremendous patience with the elderly and infirm. They are to be lauded.
I guess I should have used the term incompetent rather than of sound mind. So that might fit in with the judge ruling a person incapable of voting. I’ve always been curious how that works when people in nursing homes vote. Thanks for the explanation and thanks for your hard work.
"There has been an unexpected drop in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures observed in recent months, and no one quite knows how it came about or what it means."
I expect someone will emerge to tell us how it came about and what it means, which is to say, there will be opinions and prophecies expressed as for-realsies facts. It's exhausting.
How it comes about is unknown. What it means is reasonably well understood. It could mean subduction of the North Atlantic current aka Gulf Stream in other geographic regions. I explained it a teeny bit further down in the comments.
Oh thanks. It happened in the spring, so I’m okay. He was a nice cat, and he had a long life (I think he was 19 or 20). He had a very peaceful end. Now I look out the window, and see our neighbors’ cats every so often. It’s fun seeing them, and I love that they aren’t mine!!
Oh, and a weather report. Our 2 weeks of drought was broken by a nice rain on Sunday. The rain was just the right amount and fell gently over several hours. No thunder or flooding reported. We're getting some more rain today. Now it is coolish by the lake, but I don't mind. Though I'd like to see another warm spell before I have to bring certain plants back inside.
Hi. Sorry I haven't had time to check in every day; got some projects on the front burner. I still hope to do a quick Liz Appearances report with links. She has not been idle.
Trroll patrol: Yesterday on the Catoggio thread the orange fishsticks guy did an ad hominem on me because he was mad at me for chiming in on something, and insisted that is not allowed. He keeps demanding people tell him what they believe and I had a thought about what another commenter might have meant by something he wrote. I got 14 likes when I said I believe everyone is allowed to post a comment without being expressly invited. He apparently alluded to that when he later posted a claim that people are "ganging up" on him.
Anyway, the ad hominem said something like "sorry to break it to you, but you are far from the sharpest pencil." I think he also ordered me never to comment on anything he said, or something like that. I looked a little while later and found that comment had disappeared. Not even a line saying a comment had been removed. Don't know whether it was him, or Dispatch moderator, or what. He posted more comments asking (from him it sounds like demanding, apparently in this guy's world everything not forbidden is compulsory) that I tell him what I believe about this, that, and the other. Sorry, kid (he sounds like one to me) but I already saw your ad hominem even though I didn't reply, and you're still expecting me to complete your homework assigment? Or you imagine you're a journalist demanding statements from a public figure (me) at a press conference? If you really want to know what I believe, don't start by coming at me with Attitude. Oh, and he assumes I am a guy.
Sometime, on the interwebs, you just encounter people with Issues. I had the same person pegged as a nutter and typically avoid him/her.
Thanks for confirming. I had that one tentatively pegged to avoid.
I may need to start keeping a little list again so I don't get confused. Full-on trolls I just skip right over, but I cannot always remember which of the people I generally see eye to eye with on issues may not be worth interacting with because they have behavior problems.
You're always nice to me, despite my personality disorders.
If you have them, I haven't noticed. You're always nice to me too, IIRC.
I probably also should have said I can have perfectly nice interactions with people who disagree with me respectfully. It might be civil discussion of issues, or it might be wacky badinage or off-topic interests. These last two are not time-wasters. They are the subatomic forces that keep the particles orbiting properly so that the commenting community stays healthy and not radioactive.
What I am NOT looking forward to is finger pointing at humans for causing all this stuff that has been happening for a few/several/unknown number of millions years. We continue to choose, live and develop places that are not suitable for habitation.
Natural variation is a part of our climate. FWIW & IMHO our experts and their models don't adequately incorporate that into their models.
About a third of my research involves "abnormal returns", where we eliminate the natural variation so we can examine changes due to some cause. Both play a role in change, and separating them matters.
I picked up my chain saw yesterday. It turns out the gas in my gas can had water in it. The gas can is sealed, but apparently not nightly enough. I think I might put duct tape about it. Hopefully that won't cause an explosion. I think this weekend I might fire it up! 😀
Ethanol draws moisture out of the air and condenses it in the fuel tank. Green engineering!
Duct tape...sheesh.... Why is it people continue to think duck tape is useful. Forget duct tape. Get a new can...one of those frustrating things with the nozzle thingie that prevents accidental pouring of gasoline onto your feet...or something.. If you insist on using duck tape, get GORILLA tape or similar. It's worth the extra dough.
If it's good enough for Red, it's good enough for me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b61f6bAuytw
Also, a link I thought you might like:
https://freebeacon.com/culture/and-the-horses-they-rode-in-on/
Yeah, thanks. I always like reading this kind of thing. Appreciate it.
Someone should put you in charge of the YouTube archives.
What makes you think I'm not already? It's a very closely held secret so far, but Elon's got an independently wealthy older brother who's never admitted kinship with him in public and who's recently made a major tech purchase in the online world. (Bari Weiss has already been in contact about a YouTube Files project.)
I'm counting on your discretion in this matter. Don't make me get my lawyers involved.
This morning is my annual Medicare checkup. For some reason, I thought it was yesterday, even though I had the correct date on my calendar. I wonder if this is going to count against me?! Maybe I was worrying too much about the 3 words they’ll want me to memorize, so they can see if I still remember them 5 minutes later. Or maybe it’s because I’ve been thinking about that clock face I’ll have to draw, and then draw the hands in the correct location for some random time the nurse gives me. Honestly, I find the entire thing insulting. My cholesterol is high (not off the charts), so the PA will ask me again if I’m interested in going on statins, to which I think she already knows the answer. Same with the bone density test because I refuse to take those drugs, too. Otherwise, I’m sure it will be a cheerful visit!
And on a more upbeat note, has anyone watched “American Fiction?” It’s on Amazon Prime, and I got about halfway through it last night. If you’re familiar with it, it won an Oscar; I’m not sure I’d go that far, but it IS good (so far)!
I saw American Fiction. Starts GREAT with a FANTASTIC premise, I love Jeffrey Wright, and then it just goes all over the place. It couldn't decide what it was trying to say and ended up trying to say too much about way too many serious things.
Thanks, Kurt. That’s good to know. I’m about 3/4 of the way done now, and it’s starting to get very “preachy.” (How many topics can we cover for you naive, phobic people?!) A friend said the ending was a surprise, but she liked it. Normally we have very similar tastes, but I’m not so sure about this one.
Right. I love the premise, then it goes all over the place. Chekhov’s Gun applies….i.e., if it doesn’t serve the primary thesis, it has no place in the production.
Yes! Finished it yesterday, and it really did get “messy.”
😂 I WISH those were the words! I could just look at the nurse, and start laughing!! Usually it’s something like firetruck, bicycle and glasses. My brother says he always fails! 😳 Every time I have to do the damn clock, I wonder what they’ll do when they get to the generation that only sees digital clocks!
Good luck with the checkup. Today's three words to remember are
1) Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
2) Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (I think it's a fear of long animal names)
3) Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
I'm sure you'll ace it!
Christy once asked me why I never wore a watch: was it because I enjoyed being late or because I couldn't tell time? I told her I had been given a Mickey Mouse watch as a child, and seeing a rodent with uneven arms traumatized me! She laughed at that one.
The words were desk, ocean, tractor. And I thought I was being smart because she asked me to repeat them, so I did it in reverse. THEN she asked me later (I thought we were done), and I forgot DESK! 🤣
Womp, womp!
I know! And now I’m having no problem remembering all of them!!!
I have been asked why I don't wear a beard. I respond that I was scared by a beard as a young child. It's true. I can still see that guy with the red hair and beard smiling like an over caffeinated clown. I started to recover, then the 70's happened with all those beards and bib overalls and it deepened the trauma.
I wear a beard (it's white now, but requires I keep it short, no santa for me).
When we adopted our daughter, she had never seen a man before, let alone a beard. She took one look at me and began screaming. I probably looked like a grizzly bear waiting to eat her.
Once outside, I gave her a cookie, she liked it, I gave her two more and a cup of apple juice. She decided I was alright, maybe I was the cookie monster's little brother?
😂
Subduction. The current cooling could mean the North Atlantic current could subduct, which will turn England and the northern Scandinavian countries into a glacier. It's happened dozens/hundreds/thousands of times over geologic time and it will probably happen again. "Weather" is something that we do not understand, and only by the recent research of the last several decades do we even have a clue about WHAT happened let alone HOW it happened and we know not at all what WILL happen. A teeny tick in the angle inclination of our little blue pill, which it does all the time, could mean....something.
The same subduction could mean Florida turns into a temperate climate instead of tropical, etc., etc. Ancient people were smart enough to try and not live in areas where bad meteorological stuff happens. It's only modern humans with their insistence on developing civilizations focused on...wait, I lost focus...what was I talking about...(?)...
Money? As in trade is lucrative, shipping efficiently transfers the sources of lucre, ships require ports....oceans....hurricanes.
Trade generated so much money that people could afford to build disposable houses - really nice fancy ones, with marble showers and carpet and nice kitchens - because flood insurance.
I don't know who pays for removing structures when they wash into the marsh during a storm.
I enjoy marsh archeology. I found an intact lid for a 1940s refrigerator dish one time.
Humans.
Indiana's lakes were made by receding glaciers. So, Southern Indiana is hilly, central Indiana is flat, and northern indiana has tons of lakes. Almost three different states in one! Those of you wanting to know what central indiana is like, it's like "western central Ohio"....
Did anyone else read the words “bog of dark” as “dog of bark?”
😂 I like that one!
Good morning. Rain here, now and this afternoon. Rain, glorious rain.
The mothership is reporting on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. The FP headline is “University Cancels Panel Because Author is a ‘Zionist’”.
I woke up to a downpour, it cleared but another shower has moved in. A friend was supposed to do a blacksmithing demo here this week but it was cancelled because of fire risk...
FP has good articles today. So does Commentary. Seth Mandel isn't my favorite guy on their podcast - that would be Abe Greenwald - but Seth is good on the blog with short pieces that have a clear thesis and good facts.
I'm getting my Israel news from the "Times of Israel Daily Briefing" podcast.
John dominates the conversation. Zip it, let the others talk more.
Yeah, he's a real yakker. I like him okay, but I prefer to hear from everyone.
I've got to subscribe. I've let two others lapse so that I can justify it. But I haven't pulled the trigger yet.
Free Press or Commentary?
The Free Press is uneven, in my opinion, but they have such a variety of writers and content that there's almost always something that interests me on any given weekday. I rarely say much in the comments besides, "Interesting news today," or "Good article," but even that can get deranged reactions from some of the participants there. It's probably not a large percentage of loo-loos, but they are really verbose and reactive.
Commentary. I've got the FP.
Yeah, I seldom say anything in the comments of the FP anymore. I used to a lot more when it was under its previous title. Was that just Honestly? I can't recall.
I do like the mix of stuff there. I read everything at the mothership. Some of the FP. And a little at The Atlantic. I'm trying to decide if I can justify their subscription. It's all so predictable that I don't often get past a couple of paragraphs in many pieces.
We subscribe to FP, and I like it, but we probably won’t continue our subscription. I already have too much to read and listen to. Love Commentary podcast.
It was called “Common Sense” I believe. The podcast is “Honestly.”
Yes! Thank you
I used to read a few free articles at The Atlantic, but they don't have that any more. I don't miss it.
In honor of the Great Sort ...
My Own Damn Zeitgeist: https://youtu.be/CgChVF-uC20?si=nFnZWw66Fb4Q27SK
Howdy. It's Tuesday here and I'm off to help see that the nursing home folks are ready to vote. We've got 20-ish facilities in this county with a couple of thousand residents who could vote. By law in Tennessee, we go to the facilities in teams of twos -- not ark-like, but one D and one R -- to help them through the process. Today, we'll be going through voter lists and getting prepared for our teams.
On the climate front, I default back to the only climate story I've ever believed, this one: https://time.com/archive/6878023/another-ice-age/
In this house, we believe in science. Albeit old science, but still ... SCIENCE!
Is this a paid job or a volunteer position? Do the residents have to be of sound mind to vote, ie not under guardianship?
I'm retired from that county election office. But they pay me a part-time wage to help out because ... presidential election! Lots of registrations, lots of absentee ballots to be sent. Generally speaking, they're busy and need help. So, I'm pitching in because they're my friends.
With regard to nursing homes -- and almost all election law -- first, keep in mind that it varies by state.
Here in Tennessee, the only person who can prevent a person from voting is a judge. And I'm not aware of one ever interfering with the right to vote because someone was not of *sound mind. Anyone in elder care facilities CAN go to the polls to vote, if they like. Our workers going to the faclities is a convenience to them. We set up machines in a common area -- like where they eat meals. What Tennessee did was stop sending absentee ballots to nursing homes, assisted living, etc. Why? Because it's not clear who was actually doing the voting. Even a power of attorney does not give one the right to vote for someone else here.
Now, anyone who wants to vote gets to do so without having to leave their facility. Our nursing home poll workers read ballots to those who need it, and help them other ways. But there is no coercion to vote or not or for any candidate. The nursing home voting teams are a special troop. They work long hours for a tiny stipend and show tremendous patience with the elderly and infirm. They are to be lauded.
*-- there's a rabbit hole!
That is really something! As we say around here…
That's a great solution. I wonder if any counties in NC take that approach. I could see it being beneficial in the Triangle and around Charlotte.
It's state law here. Every county does it.
I guess I should have used the term incompetent rather than of sound mind. So that might fit in with the judge ruling a person incapable of voting. I’ve always been curious how that works when people in nursing homes vote. Thanks for the explanation and thanks for your hard work.
Thanks for the kind words.
I have never heard of a judge in this state ruling someone can't vote by reason of senescence.
I used to serve as GAL when someone petitioned the court to deem a person incompetent, typically an elderly person with dementia. I think in those cases the judge can make a ruling the person no longer retains the right to vote. https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/04/wisconsin-residents-mental-disabilities-voting-rights/
I would have to look through the annotated code to see if that's even a thing here. And that would make my head hurt. 😉
Lauding accomplished.
Good morning. It's a little gloomy here today, but at least it's Trash Day!
We don't expect pretty Trash Days.
"There has been an unexpected drop in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures observed in recent months, and no one quite knows how it came about or what it means."
I expect someone will emerge to tell us how it came about and what it means, which is to say, there will be opinions and prophecies expressed as for-realsies facts. It's exhausting.
How it comes about is unknown. What it means is reasonably well understood. It could mean subduction of the North Atlantic current aka Gulf Stream in other geographic regions. I explained it a teeny bit further down in the comments.
I feel the same way. We are overwhelmed with all the handwringing speculation. Then there’s recycling!
Of course they will, just as they explained, “when we said ‘global warming,’ what we really meant was ‘climate change.’”
Perhaps we should read the entrails of a polar bear. The result would be within the margin of error for anything else.
You can learn what polar bears are eating by checking their droppings.
Is that where you're most likely to find excursion itineraries from the cruise ships?
Heh, well played.
Good morning. It's Tuesday here. Jake is having second breakfast. I hope he doesn't throw up like he did yesterday.
Our poor cat finally died, and to be honest, as much as I loved him, I don’t miss the regurgitating. (Or all the hair!)
Sorry for your loss—understand the relief.
Oh thanks. It happened in the spring, so I’m okay. He was a nice cat, and he had a long life (I think he was 19 or 20). He had a very peaceful end. Now I look out the window, and see our neighbors’ cats every so often. It’s fun seeing them, and I love that they aren’t mine!!