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How I spent my summer vacation

I'm heading out to Spokane, Washington to visit an old friend who isn't doing real well. My guy in the 3rd subdistrict judge election came in last in a field of five. Needs a better precinct operation.
There are at least three different Saint Valentines.
Calvin and Hobbes creator, Bill Watterson, speaks to Cleveland Plain Dealer
President
Who better exemplified America in 2009, the balloon boy family or the White House party crashers?
Dave Barry's year in review

Here comes 2010
Resolutions
The Census
December, 2009

Most Wonderful time of the year

It's Christmas

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Guys, remember that if anyone mentions Tiger Woods within 20 ft. of a woman, you must immediately say, "What a jerk"!

Do people in the witness protection program worry about identity theft?

Climate Enquirer
The Final Authority on All Your Science and Policy
Breaking News
Groups refute charges of tribalism

Slang Slam of the Year: "He's a prat."

Pielke and Romm, a secret friendship?

Happiness in Copenhagen - Climate
change hasn't harmed the foie gras

 Climate causes shoes

Clarks Climate Women's Leather Sandal

Steve Madden Women's Moccasin (CLIMATE)

Energy Blog

Skeptics claimed smoking gun or did they say "We're smoking gum"?

Did you ever get interested in something for a while and think it was important or meaningful only to realize in the end that you were just wasting your time? I did that in the arcane world of climate bloggery where science is used and abused to justify an entire panalopy of political and policy agendas. I got sucked into it becase of a life long interest in alternative energy. You know it's very exciting that in the last few years technology has finally advanced to the point that an energy transformation is possible.
The dressing, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce have been eaten. Still have plenty of turkey, corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkin cake, and green beans. The one remaining slice of pumpkin pie won't make it to tonight's dinner hour. I am, apparently, tryptophane sensitive. This is day three of eat turkey, sleep; eat turkey, sleep. Why can't they understand that yes, I do still want a damn pony for Christmas! This is not stubbornness, this is principle.

Color
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CRUopia

An actual scandal is unfolding that will certainly damage the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Like a lot of scandals, this one will grow out of something that didn't seem like that big of a deal at the time. CRUopia really started five years ago when a climatologist refused to share any more data with a man named Willis Eschenbach because "you'd just try to find something wrong with it."

Is there a Movie here?

Many years ago in the pre internet times, a young man fresh out of university dedicates himself to compiling all the available worldwide daily temperature records into one computerized data set. It is a monumental task. Computers and computer languages were very primitive by today's standards. When completed, it becomes the foundation of the science of climatology. I'm still working on the (plot of every good movie) "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl get back together" scenes. Can a man be in love with a data set? Does it end tragically, the young man now in his fifties resigning in disgrace from his lofty position, his life's work in shambles. Fade to black.

No show tonight because of the Bear's game. Bear fans watch alone in solitary dread, unable to risk the mass depression caused by watching loss after excruciating loss in once happy groups.
The quit smoking program is defunct. The pills I took did make me focus all my tension onto wacko blogger Joe Romm, but the flesh was weak. I did visit a lot of new sites and even commented on some. Mostly they were climate sites. There's a big rift on these sites between the land use and innovation advocates on one side and the CO2 and government control advocates on the other. Not surprisingly, many on both sides have a low opinion of Romm.

One site I wanted to comment but was unable belongs to a son of a land use advocating climatologist. He is more of a policy guy than a scientist. He really doesn't like Romm and as luck would have it was also either quitting smoking or was posting about Romm just because it's so much fun. His comments tool requires an ID that I don't have. Too bad, at the time the quit smoking pills were enhancing my rhetoric.

Now is a good time to review the turkey timer

The 21st Century Energy Show at the Beverly Arts Center Theater went really well. James Wesley Jackson came by to host and the room was good for the Sugar & The Raw band and for me. It looks like we'll do it again there in February.

Too few tourists take the time to see the back of Mt. Rushmore

I'm tired of hearing that comedians can't come up with jokes about our new President. Here's one I've been working on all week. Barack Obama walks into a bar. I'm sure I'll have the punch line soon.


a house takes a knee fun

Arctic Ocean
They're coming out with a solar powered rifle. That son of a gun is a gun of a sun.
I have, over the years, developed Spousal Auditory Differentiation to an exceptional degree. This allows me to block all sounds pertaining to yard work or home repair. I consider it a superpower. My wife has a much less complimentary name for it.

This is our century. What improbable manifestation of cursed fate can possibly stand in our way?