WTF is YouGov really about?
I participate in something called "YouGov". Until today, I never read the commentary under any of the polls I took. I should have kept it that way. What a bunch of hateful morons! And it may inform...
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News from the Arctic: Memorial Day 2012 edition
Hi all. I've not written a diary for months about anything, and I thought it was about time I did so. The last Arctic sea ice diary I did was at the end of August 2011. Then the gloom of the...
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News from the Arctic: 21 June 2012
I spent four days in Providence RI for the Netroots Nation 2012 convention. I'm sure I would have had a better time if I wasn't attacked by some tainted tuna I had at a restaurant nearby on Friday...
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News from the Arctic: 3 July 2012
My partner and I live in suburban Maryland. In spite of 104°F temperatures and a wicked derecho that came through here at about 10:30 Friday night with 70 mph winds, we're fine. We didn't even lose...
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June 2012 Arctic Sea Ice Report PLUS
... some other goodies (well, that may not be the right word) to follow.As was implied in my diary from earlier this week, the June 2012 Arctic sea ice report from the National Snow and Ice Data Center...
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Midwest and Great Plains Drought Update: 8/2/12
NOTE: Thanks to the proofreaders who caught my dyslexia ;-). Also added some information from another diary on the importance of heat stress on vegetation (i.e. crops!) and added a few clarifying words...
View ArticleJuly 2012 Warmest Month in US Historical Record: National Climate Data Center
Just a relatively short diary here, but this headline was just issued by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration:NOAA: July 2012 marked the hottest month on record for the contiguous...
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Climate SOS: Food supply 2012 and beyond
Well, the hot times continue, both globally and locally. Well ... not so much locally, since we're only running about 2.0°F (1.1°C) above normal 2/3 of the way through August. No 100° days either....
View ArticleOh no, the Tea Party has nothing to do with this ...
Well, well ... someone had the audacity to post this remark on a FB group I belong to call "The National Association of Black and White Men Together" and a political cartoon that was posted there:Here...
View ArticlePolitical Psych Meta
I'm feeling so damn frustrated right now. It's pretty clear that the believers in the Rapture have taken over the Republican party ... since they must believe they'll not be affected by what they are...
View ArticleDepression
What should have been a happier time for me, just wasn't to be. For those of you with depressive illness, you'll likely understand. Depression is insidious. I was steadily descending into the dark last...
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December 2015 breaks records for warmth
The top graphic tells most of the story. Pretty much everywhere you see the brown shading it was the warmest December in the historical record. In some cases, it would have been in the top 10 warmest...
View ArticleIs this Trump Voter Reachable?
I found this on Facebook and was completely flummoxed by it. This is written in an intelligent, seemingly thoughtful manner by a friend of a relative whom I will not name. It has the sound of a...
View ArticleA Reminder from a Previous Diary: Democrat is not an adjective!
My intention was to write a new diary explaining why using the noun “Democrat” as a adjective, as in Democrat Party, instead of DemocratIC, is considered a pejorative. When I did a search for...
View ArticleNazi Quote of the Day: My little bit of activism
I have felt terrified to varying degrees since the election on November 8. The trauma is partly the result of growing up gay in the late 60s and early 70s, and a PTSD type reaction to the ascendancy of...
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ENOUGH!!!!!!
xYouTube VideoSo, this is the kind of game some folks here want to continue to play in some of the diary comments?I for one have had more than enough of it. This is an emergency!We are dealing with an...
View ArticleDCCC now hanging up on people?
Short diary, but something happened today that I found interesting.I picked up an unidentified phone call this afternoon while working from home, against my better judgment (with a 202 area code). It...
View ArticleLosing Chase Felt As Hard to Me as Losing a Child
The lovely black cat you see in my hands is named Chase. He earned his name by being next to impossible to capture when we first brought him home from Last Chance Rescue in 2006. I loved that cat like...
View ArticleWhat if it doesn't happen? What will we do?
I’m sure if we all put our heads together we might even come up with one million reasons to impeach the mango menace. But as I keep on hearing, impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. Are...
View ArticleAnother Active Shooter Situation
This time in Midland/Odessa, TX. Apparently there are 2 people in separate vehicles involved. “Multiple people” have been shot, per MSNBC. These men are currently driving on the streets of Midland,...
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