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Global Warming Is Crap!
Hey Zwills, thank you for correcting at least two misconceptions. I'll correct another, a small one: "The article's title statement of "Global Warming is Crap" ...was meant as an irony. It points critically at the form the so-called "anti-global warming" rhetoric takes, but of course the same people who have nothing to say BUT "Global Warming is Crap" will create a further irony when they show they do not understand that irony, and prove they cannot read. And they create another bugbear, the 'leftist green-obsessed idiot' who "believes" it, in the same way they create a right-wing rhetoric brimming over with creationist swill--all the while shouting how WE have created the "myths" of global warming AND evolution. Hmmmm, who's swallowing prepackaged rhetoric (and from what sources!!) and fairytales again, now?...— January 28, 2010 6:38 p.m.
CCDC and other disappointments
or was it a dumbass 90s song? Either way, you can't live your life according to a bunch of song lyrics, Pete--or can you? ;)— January 28, 2010 1:50 p.m.
CCDC and other disappointments
Do you really think I am going to read all of those lame lyrics from a dumbass 80s song? HA! "I play by my rules because how I live my life affects my life." Spoken like a truly selfish, deluded person. It's called "society" for a reason, Pete.— January 28, 2010 1:50 p.m.
Wall Street is feasting off Main Street’s pain
Whigs and Mugwumps sounds like a cool opera. Maybe psycholizard's "less serious" band could write the music. ;)— January 28, 2010 1:42 p.m.
Wall Street is feasting off Main Street’s pain
Oh and PS: Beckett should remain on the stage, by all means, and radio too--he did many works treating word and music-- but I have not enjoyed any operatic takes on his work, unless the operatic elements are built in, such as "Happy Days."— January 28, 2010 1:34 p.m.
Wall Street is feasting off Main Street’s pain
re: #78: So serious! How can I have stated an "untruth" when I was just joking about Mr. Bauder's opera habit? But since you insist on a smackdown, let's consider that in its libretti, opera has to rely on literature, too, lizard. ;)— January 28, 2010 1:28 p.m.
Body, Heal Thyself
Pure hybris, Dave. Pure hybris. Yeah, I have been thinking lately that the aches and pains in my gums, knees, and hands would just go away, too. And they might--temporarily. Doesn't change the fact that I have a chronic condition that won't ever go away, and will always need treatment. Or that some kinds of pain I get(the kind that makes me want to shoot myself in the head)come and go, and other kinds are dull and blunt, and always there. The fact is: YOU CAN'T JUST DIAGNOSE YOURSELF BASED ON PAIN. You know full well that if you have a heart condition, it won't just go away. It lies in wait, and maybe you won't be somewhere convenient next time. Do your family and friends--and yourself--a favor. Get the tests. There is no reason not to do it, every reason to do it.— January 28, 2010 12:35 p.m.
CCDC and other disappointments
Ok, looking back over Grant's comments, I see you were punning on the idea of "alive" as in lively, etc. However, it just isn't cool to joke about death to your elders--we'll all be there one day, right? And we hope the younger people will have a little respect for us. You may think that you shouldn't have to explain the intricacies to senior citizens, but that's just it--you don't know yet how confusing things can get when you get older. Physiologically, it becomes more difficult to follow all points of an argument. I'm not saying that auntsandiego is senile--I'm saying that you should cut her a break, and perhaps just leave her alone. There are plenty of people "your own size" to pick on.— January 28, 2010 12:19 p.m.
Global Warming Is Crap!
Is this what you two got out of it? Did you really read the article? Manson, who wrote it, meant to present the issue from a variety of perspectives that seem to boil down to several crucial prescriptions: We need to control population, control emissions, and educate, as well as cultivate our own gardens--this latter point may escape you if you haven't read Voltaire's Candide: In the context of the article, it means that we haven't gotten the big solutions to the big problems yet, but it doesn't mean that we should give up on trying to change things locally, especially if we can develop technology to help us adapt to the increase of heat and radiation implicated by global warming. To conclude from this article that global warming is not a fact is to say that you want to hide your heads in the sand, and let someone else take care of it. You create this monster of "Big Science" to counteract the monster you think has been created, of "Global Warming." For some people, the only way to grapple with science, since they can't read or understand its conclusions, is to do what they were taught in Sunday school,--create more mythical monsters to slay. Pathetic. Get an education, and learn to read critically. I never hear you talk about population overgrowth, Pete, while you moan about how global warming is just a myth. That is because you have no clue--if you'd gone to college, you might understand a bit more what's at stake. The attitudes in comments #1 and 2 might be summed up best in this snippet from the article, no doubt misread by both commenters: "Somebody’s got to step back and say, ‘Look, we’ve got a problem which goes well beyond these issues on the surface.’ And it’s not that we couldn’t do something. It’s just that there appears to be no political will to do it and very little education and information, so people don’t even realize where we are and where we’re headed.”"— January 28, 2010 11:58 a.m.
Lights Out
Hello--this was not just Encinitas. Didn't you hear there were massive power outages, affecting homes and traffic lights downtown and uptown, and probably other areas? Happened again last night, too.— January 28, 2010 11:36 a.m.