Heard in the Left Ear
No oil…cooks our planet!
No coal…pollutes too much!
No ethanol…drives up food prices!
No nuclear energy…too much waste!
No wind power…kills bats!
No solar…manufacturing process pollutes, too costly for the poor!
No hydro…hurts an endangered, blind minnow in some babbling brook somewhere!
No power of any kind, except that which runs our own “earth friendly” cars, boats, planes, trains, houses, Macintoshes, Gore’s world-tour jet, $5-per-radish local organic-food grocers, and used-bookstore latte shops over which we ponder the musings of Nietzsche!
No exhalation…greenhouse gas emission!
No guns…ewww, they’re so, like, you know, like, violent and all!
No fishing…the hooks hurt their poor little fishy-lips!
No religion (except maybe Mother Earth worship)!
No babies (except our own of course)…Mother Earth/Gaia/World Organism/Residence-of-Our-Glory-the-Nature-Goddess is already too populated!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Yes only to locally-grown $5 radishes in organic salads, higher taxes forever, and tolerance…except, of course, toward any viewpoint espoused by conservative Christians, Republicans or red-meat consumers, any of which we shall label as “hatemongers”!
What national debt?
Meteorology for the Illiterate
The following image is a scan of page 208 of the October 1965 edition of Weatherwise magazine, where various weather-related resources were listed and briefly described for the benefit of readers. Well, not always readers…
- Click image to enlarge an unmarked version (820K)
The underlining is mine. Thanks to SteveC for finding and scanning that for me!
New Photo Gallery for 2010 Okie Snow and Ice
The ice did its best to obey the law and STOPped sliding off that sign; but you can proceed without caution! Click over to our new set of imagery from the ice and snow event here in central Oklahoma that took place at the end of January. Elke and I enjoyed a few days off after the winter storm to explore and find interesting subjects to shoot, whether at home or on the road.
We observed and photographed songbirds from the comfort of warm shelter, looking through our back windows, and about half the shots either were in our yard or neighborhood.
After roaming about our immediate proximity and Norman proper, a trip down to Purcell, where the ice had been much thicker, revealed a streetscape littered with downed limbs and trees, and classical ice-storm damage at every turn. We also shot several more photos at the National Weather Center; and those shots appear both in the winter storm gallery and in the ever-growing NWC photo set.
If you haven’t seen the NWC gallery, either in the last few months or at all, check that out also. Just when I think I have photographed that facility and its surroundings in every way, shape and form possible, new opportunities sprout like weeds above the grubs hunted by the resident skunks.
