3 minutes well spent

Hi all.:

Need a little cheering up today?  Well then hop on this.  Makes me smile and feel real swell.

Inside joke

If you are not a "Game of Thrones" fan you won't get this at all.  If you are a fan, you will be laughing or at least smiling.

BBC rejects false equivalency

I was about to give up on any hope that false equivalency in the media would be combated and rejected by "responsible" media.  It turns out that the BBC has kindled some hope in me, as explained in this excellent WAPO article by Katrina vanden Heuvel.  I love the John Oliver solution of staging an actual climate change debate with 3 deniers vs. 97 reputable scientists armed with proof.  At some point the deniers would be viewed as Humphry Bogart was giving his paranoid rant while rolling the steel balls around in his hand  in "The Caine Mutiny."

An apt quotation

Even though I am now retired, I must always remember to make sure I'm not working:

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else" 
~ J.M. Barrie

Climate change: Lest you forget

The facts concerning climate change are so conclusive that it's hard to imagine how the right wing tea party crowd can ignore them.  I probably could offer a newspaper, magazine, or television analysis of the problem each day, but I refrain from doing so because I know that I would be preaching to the choir. Nevertheless, occasionally I run across something on the subject that is succinct, informative, and  wryly humorous, which I am compelled to share.  Such is Richard Cohen's wonderful piece in today's WaPo. I love the opening anecdote about the newspaper weather report.