Funny

02007-08-23 | News

The British and their stars. It’s different than the Americans and their stars. Anyway, you might not think that the following is funny. That’s OK. I have a feeling that Stevo might roll on the floor with laughter upon reading this. I could be wrong. Stevo?

Pete Doherty | News | Guardian Unlimited Music
A highlight from today’s coverage in the Sun is Doherty reportedly telling a bunch of “newsmen” who were asking him questions, “Do you want to shut up or I’ll pour a bucket of saliva over you? I will smash your head in.”

Hmm, difficult. Your average person would opt for shutting up but we’re thinking the bucket of saliva might not be so bad, on account of the fact that it would take so long to fill a bucket with saliva (especially given that crack addiction tends to dry the mouth somewhat) that you could continue firing questions at Doherty while he gobbed.

Melting

02007-08-22 | Environment, Nature, World

Arctic Ice at All-Time Low
Just last year the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s Serreze said that the Arctic was “right on schedule” to be completely free of ice by 2070 at the soonest. He now thinks that day may arrive by 2030.

Another article and more links can befound here. Seems to me that, unless you are planning on leaving this planet soon, this is not the time to discuss whether Global Warming is largely man-made or a natural occurrence. That would be like discussing how a fire started instead of trying to put it out or cutting off your finger and discussing why that happened rather than grabbing the finger and running to the hospital. There are things we can do and we better start this summer.

But my hunch is that people will let things slide until…. well, until people see their own investments in danger – see the illustration from Vanity Fair – real estate and industry in major cities on the coast, beach-front property in Florida and elsewhere…

Manhattan