The shore along a beach near Sydney, Australia was suddenly turned into a giant wall of foam that eventually became 30 miles long and several feet high. The foam was caused by assorted flotsam and jetsam, along with natural salts and chemical discharges that build up in the ocean.
If this happened in America, we’d have wall-to-wall news coverage about it, along with the usual right-wing gasbags telling us it was either the work of Al-Quaeda or Bill Clinton. In Australia, they just went swimming anyway.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
But don’t forget… it was caused by global warming. ;)