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"Should the public believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global warming will change accordingly. Therefore, you need to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate." -- from a memo to the Bush administration from a political consultant. (Last paragraph of story about carbon dioxide in The Independent.)

Yeah, this looks more or less right... Except that I don't have a housemate with a sketchpad.

This states-I've-visited meme looked familiar ... sure enough, I'd done it the last time it went around. Still haven't gotten around to adding Canadian provinces though.

Is anyone besides me really, really bothered by this sentence? "The moon has one-sixth the gravitational field of Earth, so moon-based aircraft could launch from there more cheaply."

"Aircraft?"

On Earth's moon?

When I left rehearsal, snow had started. Not much, mind you; just the occasional flicker or streak in my headlights. But I-495, the Capitol Beltway, was moving 20 MPH slower than it had been an hour earlier. (Yeah "an hour" -- I got out of the house really late.)

*sigh*

And as long as I'm griping about driving, a memo to a handful of idjits (two on the B-W Parkway last night and one on I-95 tonight): Using your turn signals for lane-changes is a good thing, yes, but it's not sufficient -- you must also use your mirrors. (They won't see this, but they couldn't hear me shouting in my car either. *shrug*) Yes, using turn signals does put them a few notches ahead of many other Maryland drivers, but given the distances involved, not looking first may well cancel that out.

I had a headachy, unproductive day. Gonna see whether I can do better tomorrow despite the area probably freaking out over the snow.