Well, probably not. But it should be.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.
Usually wrong but never in doubt
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
Americans barely caring about Afghanistan is so last month.
You cannot shame the shameless.
The words do not have to be perfect.
Fuck these fucking interesting times.
Consistently wrong since 2002
I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”
Not all heroes wear capes.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.
Bark louder, little dog.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
demimondian
FWIW, the folks over at Slashdot debunked this pretty thoroughly. (Why Slashdot? Well, if the Slashdolts can debunk something, then it’s pretty clearly not your ordinary run-of-the-mill bunk, but some superspecial spoofy bunk…) There’s certainly an effect due to sea level changes, but the actual mechanism is clearly driven by other effects.
ThymeZone
Darrell called and said that he won’t believe there’s anything to this global warming thing until Gilligan’s Island is in danger.
norbizness
The “should be” comment in the main post is a little opaque.
Tim F.
That was me musing out loud about small inhabited islands which might actually do some policy good if they got swallowed up by rising sea levels.
But as Demimondian points out an island can disappear for a couple of reasons so I didn’t put that much emphasis on the story. It’s a data point and not a case on its own.
demimondian
Meh. The National Seashore on South Padre is quite beautiful, you know, in a switchgrass-and-natural-desolation kind of way. I recommend it, particularly in the dead of winter when you don’t have to share it with (other) tourists.
Zifnab
As one of the posters pointed out, jacking up the sea level 2-3 inches probably didn’t slay the island outright, but it probably didn’t help either.
It’s just a shame that, once again, the media needs to sensationalize the news rather than actually reporting on the science behind it. If people still question whether Global Warming is real, I can’t help but think it is in some part by the media hypsters who just want four-inch tall fonts on their newspaper articles whenever they report on something.
Barry
Tim, if the kids can’t party on S. Padre Island, then I’m afraid it’s your place for spring break. The good news is that you’ll get all the free beer that you can drink.
The bad news is that your yard will get all of the, how shall we say it, ‘used beer’ that it can absorb.