Yup, we have been decreasing our use of ozone damaging stuff — at least on paper — since 1995, but the hole is at a record size now, and we’ve got another 29 years of most of this stuff floating around leftto go. Scary pictures here. And Greenland’s looking kind of apocalyptic (to me, anyway) too.
Month: October 2006
On Foley
This is such an obvious ploy that it’s embarrassing. Come on, rehab and a history of abuse? Eh? Well, now we know what kind of defense Clinton should have used. “I’m a marijuana addict and some older girl molested me in high school, so… uh…”
Coelocanth
I just listened to the radio play “Coelocanth” by Ben Moor and it blew me away. You can’t get it online anymore — it went offline at BBC Radio 4 today — but if you email me within a week or two of my posting this, I might be able to tell you where you could download an MP3… it’s just too stunning to go unheard.
Ruben’s Tube
In music school, I learned to “see” music in a different way, but nothing like this. (Via my classmate Caroline, though the link isn’t on her site, not yet anyway…)
Marmot on NK
Two worthwhile posts among all of them over at Marmot’s: A snipe at Security Secretary Song Min-soon, which includes a very cutting, but, according to my recent readings, reasonable mention of the riole of local collaborators in the “comfort women” industry in Korea under Japan. I’ll start learning Arabic and/or Farsi right now and maybe if I’m lucky, I’ll make a killing pimping American women to the Iranian army. Harsh? Yes. Wrong? Hmm… of attempted coups in the North. Not that there’s any hint we should expect one now, but… this is my biggest worry. If there is a coup, …