Tropical Storm Erika's projected path as of 8 AM EST Friday
Trump is damn entertaining and he has the GOP somewhat paralyzed; they're not sure if they can go forward with him or without him. I've even heard some progressives starting to come around, mostly due to Trump calling the Iraq War what it was: a horrible, expensive mistake. Vox had this article a week or two ago that I meant to link, just to remind folks what you all get when you go with a loose cannon that has nothing to lose by firing wildly
like the Don-Don:
Trump's other theory about climate change is that the Chinese dreamed up the whole thing to gain a competitive manufacturing advantage ... Let us pause for a moment to envision the leaders of the People's Republic of China, sitting around a table, racking their brains about how to gain advantage on the US. "Wait," one of them exclaims. "I've got it!"
He's also said it's a giant conspiracy, and here's the thing about that: distinguishing between nonsense and reality is a learned skill and not everyone learns that skill. But it's a damn important one when it comes to running the most scientifically advanced nation on Earth for good reason: the US utterly depends on science for its continued military and economic welfare. So no matter what other admirable qualities Trump may have or what politically seductive sound bites he may pay lip service to, the man simply falls flat on his face in a cringe-worthy, embarrassing splat when it comes to the most basic high school science.
- Tomorrow on Sunday Kos I'll touch on a few declassified details regarding the basic production and design of fission bombs in the context of a the Iranian nuke deal. But another reason to be for it is a familiar one to many conservatives mindlessly parroting drill, baby, drill lo these many election years ago:
The oil price is up but so too are questionable oil shipments from Iran which could become a fresh drag on the price. No sooner had investors started celebrating yesterday’s $4 per barrel rise to $42.50 than news crept out about more Iranian oil possibly reaching the market.
- Are you emo, flaky, non-boring, maybe downright neurotic at times? Then science agrees: you are probably more creative than other, purportedly more "stable" personalities ... that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
- Hawking claims to have solved his own information paradox.
- Franken Trump lives:
Where Shelley’s “The Monster” is known as Frankenstein (for some reason) and where The Monster is the hideous creation of a mad man who thought he could control and create life. But FrankenTrump is not life controlled or created. FrankenTrump is a distillation, an emergent entity, a possibly inevitable outcome of setting aside all efforts to govern or develop actual policy and do nothing but play politics, 100% of the time in every way possible, involving elected officials, the party itself, a good chunk of the press, and everything else that can be controlled.