Tattered Fragments of the Map

It has been remarkable to look at the radar display day after day and see virtually no echoes.

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Unfortunately, we don’t understand why the AO [Arctic Oscillation] varies so much from winter to winter, nor why the AO has taken on such extreme configurations during four of the past six winters. Climate models are generally too crude to make skillful predictions on how human-caused climate change may be affecting the AO, or what might happen to the AO in the future.

Get your ass to Mars.

As usual Catholicism made the hole and your boss filled it.

The real news would be that men, like women, are evolved to care for children—whether or not they are biologically related to them.

It’s as if we love our icons so much we can’t bare to know who they really were.

The Dow is trying to spell something out. I think it might be ‘Keynes,’ but too early to tell.

The blindness of the DLC-era ‘Third Way’ Democratic Party continues to be an astounding thing. For more than a decade now they have been clinging to the idea that the path to electoral success is social liberalism plus laissez-faire economics—in other words, get Wall Street and corporate America to fund your campaigns, and get minorities, pro-choice and gay marriage activists (who will always [be] frightened into loyalty by the Tea Party/Christian loonies on the other side) to march at your rallies and vote every November. They’ve abandoned the unions-and-jobs platform that was the party’s anchor since Roosevelt, and the latest innovations all involve peeling back their own policy legacies from the 20th century.

In this country people prefer bullshit to truth 99 to 1.

Listen, these are people who simply—my God, I become here a kind of moral conservative. There should be some kind of ethical committee that imply claims that people such as these are a threat to our youth and they should be prohibited from appearing in public, whatever.

If there are no final victories, there are also no final losses.