A Painful Realization

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Tuesday February 11, 2014 · 6:13 PM PST

2014/02/11 · 18:13

I put this video up so that you can see that something has germinated in the copious piles of conservative bullshit.

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Wednesday January 08, 2014 · 2:18 PM PST

2014/01/08 · 14:18

When it comes to Climate Change, it sure is tiring to listen to people who don't know what they are talking about. Come to think of it, that's true of any subject. Probably explains why people tire of listening to FOX news.

Here's someone who really does know what he is talking about. Yale just posted this on YouTube, so I'm going to embed it here.

Dumpromising

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Monday October 07, 2013 · 3:01 PM PDT

2013/10/07 · 15:01

As the Congressional constipation seizes up even further, it has given me time to think about compromises, more specifically when one should and when one must not compromise. When two sides have a particular goal in mind, but differ in the method to arrive at it, compromise is possible. Each side may believe their information is superior, but with the uncertainties involved, they realize that they can't be dogmatic about it.

Then there is compromising with a dumbass, what I will refer to from here on as "dumpromising". This is where reasonable people are faced with dogmatic arguments from fact free dumbasses. This is where compromise can't work, even though, as we will see below the break, the "extreme moderates" think it can.

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Friday September 27, 2013 · 8:04 AM PDT

2013/09/27 · 08:04

No, not the particular details of any military action the U.S. might decide to take. Nor am I going to talk about the diplomatic efforts to put an end to the availability of chemical weapons. This diary is less about ending the conflict in Syria than it is about how Syria can be seen as a harbinger of the ending of civilization.

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Sunday September 01, 2013 · 9:55 PM PDT

2013/09/01 · 21:55

While most people here might roll their eyes at Paul Harvey preachy stories, he did have a way of capturing his listeners' attention and ultimately imparting just a little extra bit of knowledge. Now that he is gone, not even his small drops of knowledge find their way into the public discourse. FOX News has replaced "the rest of the story" with "we report, you deceived".

So it's no big surprise that to find the back story on Syria, it's necessary to scour the foreign press. And maybe better to look past the BBC and Agence France, or any of the news outlets of the former colonial powers. Join me below the hyperlemniscate for

.....the REST of the story.

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Friday December 28, 2012 · 8:55 AM PST

2012/12/28 · 08:55

Since the world didn't end last week, it's time to cook up a new bunch of predictions to baffle the seriously confused with. Where will Elvis be seen next? Who will make it to the National Enquirer's 6-weeks-to-live list with their shocking emaciated photo on the front page? Which congresscritters will stumble into the wrong bedroom with the TV cameras rolling? Will there be more Mormons arrested for DUI?

These are all interesting questions, and when they happen, they will titillate the news media, who will in turn titillate the legions who are even less inquisitive than they are.

But this diary is more along the lines of what weather to expect for 2013. How is climate change going to express itself, even given all the scientific disclaimers that "you can't really tie this event to climate change, you can only say that the probabilities have changed..." Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. Skip over the cloud of orange greenhouse gas for bold predictions.

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2013 -- what are we in for?