tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3368208965973948756..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: War of the Climate Worlds: Warming Trend 1, Snowmageddon 0Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43419445380108283832015-01-28T01:14:28.722-08:002015-01-28T01:14:28.722-08:00Nora,
Just because they deflate the pointy end b...Nora, <br /><br />Just because they deflate the pointy end balls and then leave the poor hardworking eddie coyle equipment guy to take the fall, as though the whole world were watching, and have the most offensive of all animal mascot names, I don't think there's anything about New England that could ever efface my impression that the bracing seaside air instilled in you a fairness, a kindness, an honesty, that will always be of more value to the world than 10,000 autographed Tom Brady bobbleheads.<br /><br />(And where on a bobblehead, I wonder, would a stellar Patriot ink his moniker, anatomically I mean -- or would it be on the felt pad on the base -- what am I saying -- they no longer use such deluxe materials on bobblehead base pads!) <br /><br />What got me into a bit of head-banging, as the night unraveled along with the wishful-thinking expectations of the urban snowmobilers, was the coincidental timing of the crazily overhyped non event in New York with yesterday morning's story of the brushfire with 70 evacuations in Pacifica.<br /><br />Wrong time, wrong place. <br /><br />Anybody who's lived around here for a while would have to know that's the wettest, coolest microclimate in the neighborhood. Brush fire in January, unthinkable.<br /><br />A spark away now at any time.<br /><br />As to the hospitalities you and I as brave taxpayers provide the detainees at the border, the story recalled several very bad other stories. <br /><br />Gaza. The kids in the ice cream freezers. Gitmo. The use of freezing temperatures and sleep deprivation as torture.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53653908217700437952015-01-27T21:24:56.602-08:002015-01-27T21:24:56.602-08:00I've been feeling bad all day that I didn'...I've been feeling bad all day that I didn't leave a more substantive comment. It's odd, the dueling death impulses in our society -- the eager clamoring for snowmageddon, and meanwhile the psychopathic indifference toward the suffering being inflicted in our midst and in our name. So much easier to look away, pass on oline jokes (guilty) and pretend the snow really erases everything, leaving the world fresh and new and mute.<br /><br />It takes a lot of heart to keep looking at stories like Josefina Peralta's, to. Thanks for being so generous with yours. Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439557611640319928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18921427737605344142015-01-27T20:49:56.749-08:002015-01-27T20:49:56.749-08:00Nora,
Well, of course, New England got the snow, ...Nora,<br /><br />Well, of course, New England got the snow, New York got the hype and the hysteria and the food hoarding and all that other good stuff that makes the Big Apple what it is. What else is new.<br /><br />Nin,<br /><br />Thanks so much. This was a monster of a post to put together, nearly killed me (again, over and over), and, in the end, I suppose the real point was buried deep under all that silly selfimportant newyawk slush -- that is, the story about the treatment of migrants, any one of whom, on any freezing night now in the borderlands, suffers more than any panicky NYC drama queen, taking a "historic" I Am The Center of the Universe Slush Selfie, could ever imagine. <br /><br />But I guess I figured nobody would be interested in the woes of migrants -- not our problem, serves them right, all that wonderful contemporary reinterpretation of Send us your poor, tired, huddled masses &c.<br /><br />It's probably not long going to be necessary to have a real heart, when, for the proper amount of profit, Science can fabricate one for you, and with the help of more Science, put it into your body, and even design an app that makes it appear to be bleeding, on prompt, whenever you're using your iPhone 6.<br /><br />When that happens, the massive outpouring of generosity toward immigrants will doubtless overflow the bounds of the smartphone universe.<br /><br />(What -- can he be meaning to suggest there really ARE boundaries built into that? How can there be? I mean -- you can even sit on it, and though it may make a few amusing buttcalls, it will bend not break!! Name one immigrant who can do THAT!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77755650375796799192015-01-27T16:48:12.448-08:002015-01-27T16:48:12.448-08:00So sad, these stories of immigrants. So inexcusab...So sad, these stories of immigrants. So inexcusable. Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73008586620880841412015-01-27T09:26:06.222-08:002015-01-27T09:26:06.222-08:00Looks like Yetis are afoot too.Looks like <a href="http://imgur.com/TV72Tnd" rel="nofollow">Yetis are afoot too</a>.Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14439557611640319928noreply@blogger.com