Words, just words

One of the problems we on the left often face is that we assume that most Americans are like most of us--when ninety some odd percent of scientists tell us the planet is getting warmer, we believe them.  Even if you're like me and not particularly adept at science, you respect and trust their years of schooling and the years of research they have conducted.

Alas, most Americans stood on their front porches this past week and watched feet of snow fall and temperatures in the negative teens, and thought to themselves, "What the fuck--global warming?"

There are no reams of weather related statistics or piles of climate change reports in scientific journals that are going to convince most of the non-believers (or most Americans for that matter) that this week's polar ice cap-like weather is proof that global warming exists.  Most Americans are just too literal.

My suggestion?  Stop calling it gobal warming or climate change and call it "global weather chaos."

That's a term that most Americans could look out their front window after the numerous weather related phenomena we see over the course of a year and proclaim to themselves, "Damn right to that!"

Peace,
emaycee

The odd wild hair

Every now and again I read a story that's not political that evokes a strong reaction--like Digby, I have no idea if this account is true or not, though I do remember having the same reaction a few years ago when another stranger struck someone's misbehaving child in a Wal-Mart in Georgia.

The thing that amazed me the most though, was that after this man supposedly struck this woman's child because he was wearing a feminine headband, that she didn't open up a can of serious whoop-ass on the idiot.

I mean, I can be the most Gandiesque of bleeding heart Liberals...until someone attacks one of my kids.  Then I could make The Humungus from The Road Warrior look like a model of restraint.

Seriously--the mother fucker would soon be asking St. Peter how exactly is it that he gets to hell.

Peace,
emaycee