In a concert at the riverside pavilion in Cleveland, Paul Simon gave the crowd a tour de force of songs. And he gave a sermonette: “Anger is addictive. And we are becoming a nation of addicts. Ask yourself, … Who are the pushers? Where is that anger coming from?”
The above graph, using data from NASA, plots monthly average global temperatures as a departure from the 1951-1980 average. We can see the last two data points in the blue line shooting up and heading off the chart — first…
(Created on the Funny Times Cartoon Playground.) Grand Oil Party: What the G.O.P. stands for in the modern Republican Party. From Ronald Reagan to those that control today’s Congress and the majority of state houses, the Grand Oil Party. has…
Tick, tick, tick, … (1896) It’s been 119 years since the scientist Svante Arrhenius published his formula for the greenhouse effect, and the idea that the burning of coal, by adding CO2 to the atmosphere, would raise the earth’s average…