Haven't updated this thing in a long time, but this is well worth it.
Michael Steele's comments on global warming are just hilarious:
"We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long."
and a little truth:
"Greenland was most certainly not green when it was discovered by a seriously off course Viking, Gunnbjörn Ulfsson, in the early 10th Century. The island was given its name by famed Viking marauder Erik the Red. The Saga of Erik the Red and a 12th Century history of Iceland, the Íslendingabók, both describe how the name was really a clever ruse to lure settlers to the island’s less-than-tropical shores: "He named the land Greenland, saying that people would be eager to go there if it had a good name."
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where have you gone?
let me guess. you already packed up your belongings and sold them to poor college students, burned the money, moved up to the hills outside of Seattle, and are living off the grid.
I am totally right
No way, they have so many Starbucks in them thar hills that they have better access to wi-fi than most of the midwest. If I were living up there already I'd be blogging and twittering my every gentle footstep.
I'm in a far more remote part of the country: grad school. I should be more specific: grad school that I'm trying to finish up.
But I do now have pretty much all the stuff I'd need to live out there... but I think I'd have to choose the hills of British Columbia instead, based solely on the pictures from the 'Lonely Planet' book I bought on a whim.
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