THIS MODERN WORLD

This week: Middle-Man and his erstwhile ally, the Egyptian Strongman!

Adding: this cartoon isn’t about Obama, per se. It’s about propping up a dictator for thirty years while espousing your Deep Commitment to Democratic Values (and then trying to position yourself on the side of Freedom when it all falls apart). Obama didn’t invent that game, he’s just the current player.

Also, this:

Collectively as a country we can claim no credit for this positive popular revolution against a dictator we spent so much money trying to keep in power.

Introducing the Conservabot.

The phrase “global warming” confuses the simple minded, as they seem to take from it a promise of year-round tropical paradise. So when we have a year like this one in the Northeast, with record levels of snow and ice, you get the usual “how can there be SNOW if there’s GLOBAL WARMING?” nonsense. Al Gore provides a simple answer, which will of course change no minds:

Last week on his show Bill O’Reilly asked, “Why has southern New York turned into the tundra?” and then said he had a call into me. I appreciate the question.
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming:
“In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make snowstorms more severe. Snow has two simple ingredients: cold and moisture. Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air. When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.”
“A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires and loss of endangered species.”

Also, this. But who you gonna believe, egghead scientists or Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly?

Tea party history lesson!

Also, it seems I inexplicably neglected to post last week’s cartoon — on the difference between knowing and not knowing.

As I’m going through my Paypal records in early preparation for tax time, I’m struck by how much support I’ve received from so many of you out there over the past year — through purchases and/or donations (not to mention the Wish List stuff — you know who you are!). Day to day, it trickles in a little at a time, but looking back over the whole year, I’m slightly overwhelmed. I’m also sure that I didn’t say thank you to each and every one of you who pitched in a little bit — my life is a study in chaos in motion, and sometimes I don’t get around to doing everything I should do. But your contributions do not go unnoticed, and in fact, mean the world.