Day: April 5, 2007

7:48 P.M. on April 5th, juuuust a bare smidgin’ North of the Mason Dixon LIne.

Snow. BIG flakes, coming down pretty darned fast.

Global warming, dontcha know…

Pegged to the BB at The Trouble With Angels’ Wednesday Weekly Trackback Alliance Fest and Trackposted to Outside the Beltway, The Virtuous Republic, Perri Nelson’s Website, The Random Yak, A Blog For All, basil’s blog, Stuck On Stupid, Conservative Cat, Pursuing Holiness, Pet’s Garden Blog, Diary of the Mad Pigeon, sissunchi, Faultline USA, The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, stikNstein… has no mercy, The World According to Carl, Pirate’s Cove, Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker, Dumb Ox Daily News, High Desert Wanderer, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.

Continue reading “Global Warming, of course…”

The Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind has only one deadly enemy: the skeptic. Check out John Stossel’s latest. A sample:

What do you think is more dangerous, a house with a pool or a house with a gun? When, for “20/20,” I asked some kids, all said the house with the gun is more dangerous. I’m sure their parents would agree. Yet a child is 100 times more likely to die in a swimming pool than in a gun accident.

Parents don’t know that partly because the media hate guns and gun accidents make bigger headlines. Ask yourself which incident would be more likely to be covered on TV.

Growing up, the first child I knew that died managed that feat (no feat, really, cos we’ll all do it sometime) in about 3″ of water… No gun in sight. Yeh, yeh, I know: no statistical relevance.

Made me careful (and encouraged me to become competent in) around water, though.

I blame life and all that… this week is eaten by locusts. *sigh*

Call this a “meta thirteen,” 13 13s, or “The First 13 twc Thirteens in Review”:

1.) T-13, 1.1

2.) T-13, 1.2

3.) T-13, 1.3

4.) T-13, 1.4

5.) T-13 1.5 “To-Do List”

6.) T-13, 1.6: Thirteen Things I Hate About John Kerry Politicians

7.) T-13, 1.7–13 Reasons Why the Republican’ts Got Dopeslapped

8.) T-13, 1.8: 13 “To-dos” while WW is at a conference (yeh, I’m still whittling away at this list… :-))

9.) T 13, 1.9: 13 things that make me glad to be growing older

10.) T 13 1.10–Thirteen Things About Cats

11.) Thursday 13 1.11: 13 Things I Love About Christmas

12.) Thursday Thirteen, 1.12: 13 Christmas Carols (one link’s broken–no time to fix right now… )

13.) T-13, 1.13: Revolutions (Making surprising progress on this list)

Posted to the BB at the Thursday Thirteen Hub