• Potential for global heating to end humanity 'dangerously underexplored'
• An unusual shift in the weather has turned the Sahara green
• Tuvaluans prepare for life in Australia as rising tides swallow their country
• Rapid intensification of Hurricane Francine is a sign of a hotter world
• Barcelona and Majorca will shift to a desert-like climate by 2050, new drought study warns
(archived link)
• Portugal declares a state of calamity as wildfires rage out of control
• Gulf Stream collapse would throw tropical monsoons into chaos for at least 100 years, study finds
(archived link)
• Thanks to ongoing deforestation, more than half of Brazil is wracked by drought
(archived link)
• New study reveals link between heatwaves and dementia
• New study suggests major climate reports may be underestimating drought risks
• Drought leaves Amazon basin rivers at all-time low
• Oregon wildfires are shattering records this year
(archived link)
• The Gulf Coast is sinking, making hurricanes like Francine even more dangerous
• Extreme heat due to climate crisis puts people at greater risk of kidney disease
• Extreme weather to hit 70% of humans in next 20 years, study warns
(archived link)
But there's still money to be made, so la-de-da, la-de-da...
Being old, death gets my attention, so I read the obituaries. This is a collection of recent obits, mostly of people whose work touched my life, because I want to say thanks (or maybe give 'em a final fuck you).
There’ll be a roundup like this occasionally, until I’m on the list myself.
• George Berci
developed laparoscopy (archived link)
• Franca Bettoia
actress, The Last Man on Earth
• Derek Boshier
artist (archived link)
• Tommy Cash
brother (archived link)
• Inez Crutchfield
activist (archived link)
• Chalmers Davis
keyboardist for Little Richard (archived link)
• Nelson DeMille
author, The General's Daughter (archived link)
• Ted Fang
former publisher, San Francisco Examiner
• Kenny Hyslop
drummer, Simple Minds (archived link)
• Tito Jackson
one of five
• Juan Lopez
activist assassinated
• Javion Magee
not lynched (archived link)
• Cathy Merrick
activist (archived link)
• Benjamin Robertson
in county jail
• JD Souther
singer-songwriter, "New Kid in Town" (archived link)
• John Surette
forgotten person (archived link)
• Amber Nicole Thurman
woman (archived link)
• Billy Edd Wheeler
songwriter, "Coward of the County" (archived link)
Where I live, Washington, the minimum wage is $16.28 p/hour. Across the border in Idaho, the federal minimum applies — $7.25.
Businesses on the higher-wage side of the border are doing fine, and Spokaners do not drive across the border into Coeur d'Alene for cheaper groceries or a half-price Big Mac.
It's a great story, and I always get the impression Robin Williams was a mensch, but also: I can't imagine a time when anyone anywhere wouldn't have known Nathan Lane was gay.
Poo-pooed states' rights?
Definitely an all-time favorite. I'll see anything with her in it.
Cheney was always one of the most reprehensibly right-wing Congresscritters, but lots of lefties love her because she voted to impeach Donnie Trump, and she gives great lip service to the Constitution. I have enthusiastically never been in the love-Liz crowd. She's opposed to gay rights, women's rights, minority rights, health care rights, human rights, etc, and she doesn't give a damn about the Constitution — she just doesn't like Donnie.
I would really like an answer to that.
The answer is, if Kamala Harris says anything less than wholeheartedly supportive of Israel's ongoing war crimes, she'll be slammed all across the media for anti-Semitism. That's rancid but it's a fact, so she's probably politically smart to shut up about it until after the election.
I strongly suspect that if she wins, Ms Harris still won't say much about the genocide. But... she's better than Trump, on this and every issue.
Devolved? No, man, I've always been this way.
Did some research, actually, and concluded long ago that most 9/11 skeptics and truthers are empty-headed fools — and all the ones who say "do your own research."
It's treason, and Republicans want a second try at it.
Prosecutors said Haspil had been hired as an assistant for Saleh, whose ventures included a ride-hailing motorcycle startup in Nigeria, but quickly began to siphon money from Saleh’s businesses.
That's a painfully clumsy sentence. Has AP no editors?
I'm still reading the article, but that's the key. Burnett knew Trump was fake, a lightweight and not at all how he was portrayed — which is no big deal in creating a TV show. But he kept quiet as Trump ran for President, and has maintained silence about it to this day, which to me makes Burnett and NBC accomplices to the last eight years of bludgeoning America.