what's the "democrat party"?

'The widespread franchise rules giving car dealers virtual monopolies in their territories epitomize the government-controlled marketplace Republicans purportedly despise,' writes Wohlsen

yes, but they also epitomize the lobbyist-controlled cash funnel republicans love. money is by far more important than having actual values.

soros has been a US citizen since 1961. probably longer than you've been alive.

"We don't understand anything anymore!" says the guy reviving a 30,000 year-old virus. sheesh.

I am STILL stymied by a question he asked once:

"Why does a mirror reverse left-and-right but not up-and-down?"

because our eyes are left and right, not up and down. i figured that out in 2nd grade.

right. the bit from the article "It’s not just the Ezekiel 4:9 bread (its recipe drawn from the eponymous Bible verse), or Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps" is a bit elitist if you ask me. dr. bronner's soaps are fucking awesome. and the bread, it's just multigrain bread. so the label has a bible reference on it, who cares? the bread is pretty good. it's not like they say eating the bread will give you magic powers or anything.

every pharmacy i've ever shopped at has had at least one homeopathic bullshit product. same with most decent-sized grocery stores. i guess none of them have any real grasp of science.

of course, i don't base my grocery-shopping decisions on the scientific grasp of the store's ownership. that would be fucking stupid.

north, north central, midwest, and eastern, and southern parts of the U.S.. How much global warming do you see?

i didn't know that the entire globe consisted merely of those portions of the US.

the year after a record year is usually not a record year. it's called 'regression to the mean'. it's an actual thing, look it up.

antarctica is losing an astonishing amount of land ice. this land ice melts and flows into the southern ocean, freshening the upper layer of water, which of course will freeze easier adding to the amount of sea ice.

getting cooler or stagnate in warming in recent years due to solar lull and dining

your ideas are intriguing and i would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

massive geological cycles

indeed. "massive", meaning long and slow. what we see today is not long and slow.

by all natural cycles we should be slowly, inexorably cooling, headed towards a glacial period. during those cooldowns there are often small, slow bumps upwards, like a stock on it's way down. but those bumps are again small and slow ones.

the temperature is rising at about .15C/decade. that isn't supposed to be happening according to the 'natural cycle'. this isn't a bump on the slow road down, this is a massive spike upwards. there is literally no natural phenomenon we can point to that could describe this sort of quick change.

one thing we do know is how greenhouse gases work. we've understood their basic operation for over a hundred years. we know that if it weren't for GHGs the earth's surface would be too cold for complex life.

put two and two together sometime. you'll be surprised at how easy it is.

Jeopardy's nipplegate

please don't ever use those two words together again. thanks in advance.

C-3PO: My God, you shoot small animals for fun? That's the first indicator of a serial killer, you freak!
Luke: There's two suns and no women! What the hell am I supposed to do?!

they're still in the crystal eye of the floating skull of the demi-lich.

jesus, i can't believe i still remember that.