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by John Cole|  July 22, 20108:15 am| 20 Comments

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Going to be a cooker today- it is already hot as hell outside.

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  1. 1.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    July 22, 2010 at 8:22 am

    The high here is supposed to be in the 70s today, thank god. Back to the high 80s or 90s starting tomorrow. Yeah, I’m a heat wimp, but the humidity this summer has been appalling, and I always ache everywhere when it’s like that, no matter the temperature.

    Some day, I’m going to need to move someplace with a dry climate. How’s Calgary for weather?

  2. 2.

    Cat Lady

    July 22, 2010 at 8:23 am

    Today is the pick of the week here in Boston – dry air! There was a hint of cool early which by this time during these summer muggies I start anticipating those early fall days, when you can feel that the fronts have come over the Arctic. We New Englanders will sure miss the Arctic when it’s gone.

  3. 3.

    Violet

    July 22, 2010 at 8:26 am

    It’s like a sauna where I live. Walked outside to take out the trash and started sweating the minute I opened the door. It’s about 85 degrees, yes at this time of the morning, and probably about 90% humidity right now. Every blade of grass, ever leaf, the entire fence, everything is covered with thick dew. If the car weren’t parked under something I’d have to use the wipers just to see out.

    Summer is my least favorite season.

  4. 4.

    PurpleGirl

    July 22, 2010 at 8:44 am

    NYC will be hot today but not humid. Tomorrow both the temperature and humidity will be going up. I see a lot of AC in my future. Right now I have the living room windows open and the terrace door open, although in a few hours, the AC will have to go on because the room’s orientation is south-southwest and it becomes an oven later in the day. For now the breeze is nice.

  5. 5.

    R-Jud

    July 22, 2010 at 9:00 am

    It’s Septemberish over here in the UK: about 65 with a breeze and passing showers. I needed a sweater in town this morning. As I like my summer summery, it’s a bit annoying.

    And I’ve had two power outages so far today. I imagine they are thanks to the geniuses doing construction a couple of blocks away– this has happened before. We will probably get letters of apology through the letterbox tomorrow, but apologies don’t refreeze my popsicles, dammit.

  6. 6.

    Montysano

    July 22, 2010 at 9:02 am

    Most every night at about 8-9:00 PM, we shut down the AC, open the windows, and crank up the whole house fan. We don’t go back to AC until the temp inside gets to about 85 the next morning.

    Not last night…. At 10:00 PM, it still “felt like” 90 degrees outside. Ah, summer in the Deep South.

  7. 7.

    Violet

    July 22, 2010 at 9:03 am

    @PurpleGirl:

    in a few hours, the AC will have to go on because the room’s orientation is south-southwest and it becomes an oven later in the day. For now the breeze is nice.

    A little trick I learned after living for weeks without a/c after a hurricane knocked out the electricity is to cover the windows getting sun. Cover the east windows in the morning and west windows in the afternoon and south ones all day long. I used cardboard boxes. Don’t let the house get hot in the first place and you don’t have to wait for it to cool down. Cardboard boxes in the windows may not look all that great, but they work.

  8. 8.

    Tom

    July 22, 2010 at 9:06 am

    Uh, has anyone seen Captain Ed’s latest post on the Journolist “scandal”?

    Jonathan Strong saves the real story for last, however:

    Time’s Joe Klein then linked to his own piece, parts of which he acknowledged came from strategy sessions on Journolist. “Here’s my attempt to incorporate the accumulated wisdom of this august list-serve community,” he wrote. And indeed Klein’s article contained arguments developed by his fellow Journolisters. Klein praised Palin personally, calling her “fresh” and “delightful,” but questioned her “militant” ideology. He noted Palin had endorsed parts of Obama’s energy proposal.

    This piece makes the argument that JournoListers attempted to shape coverage through their debates. Klein wrote this article in the first person, attributing these ideas to himself. He could just as easily have written, “Political activists are wondering about the following” in his list of issues in this first reaction to the Palin announcement. Instead, Klein wrote, “I wonder about the following,” which misleads readers into believing that these points sprang from his own forehead as Athena from Zeus. While Klein is very clearly an opinion journalist at Time, he represented those opinions as his own — and one has to wonder how many other talking points from JournoList Klein passed off as his own over the years at Time. The magazine needs to address that issue immediately.

    This might be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read on the Internet.

  9. 9.

    Brien Jackson

    July 22, 2010 at 9:27 am

    Hey look, Russ Feingold is a fuck-bag.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nolan-mccarty/the-price-of-principle_b_652606.html

  10. 10.

    QuaintIrene

    July 22, 2010 at 9:29 am

    Today is the pick of the week here in Boston – dry air! There was a hint of cool early

    Same here in Jersey. Slept last night without waking up every two hours to splash my face with water. (Got central air , but I have to have the windows open at night.)

    John, what is a ‘cooker?’ Oh wait, John’s gone.
    Some kind of bar-B-Q?

  11. 11.

    QuaintIrene

    July 22, 2010 at 9:30 am

    Oh, ‘Going to BE a cooker.” Sorry, didn’t have my glasses on.

  12. 12.

    Tom Hilton

    July 22, 2010 at 9:43 am

    Here’s a little virtual cooling for y’all. Shot this over the weekend.

    (Not exactly torrid where I am now, either–50 degrees and foggy. But then that’s San Francisco.)

  13. 13.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    July 22, 2010 at 9:43 am

    I hate ad servers. I can’t get anything to load quickly anymore, and Firefox always locks up with the message, “Waiting for anotherfuckedupadserver.com.”

    This isn’t a complaint about BJ, since this is far from the only place it happens. It does seem to be worse here than a lot of other sites, but it’s not that different. It’s a complaint about the web as a whole.

  14. 14.

    Bill H

    July 22, 2010 at 9:54 am

    We had a one-week warm spell, almost hot actually, but now we’re back to morning drizzle from the marine layer, which is solid clouds that move in from the ocean. It lingers until midafternoon or all day and we have high temps that struggle to make it up to even seventy. Forecast is more of the same.

  15. 15.

    Moses2317

    July 22, 2010 at 10:08 am

    I am a big fan of Balloon Juice. And, I agree that the Sherrod thing is an outrage in terms of what the right wing did to her, how our conservative media went along with it like a bunch of lemmings, and that Vilsack and the Obama Administration need to learn to stop giving a crap what the crazies say.

    However, I am disappointed that we are letting this incident distract us from talking up some significant successes that progressives achieved yesterday. The President signed a significant financial reform bill that, while not perfect, will go along ways toward ensuring that taxpayers will not have to bail out the banksters again, creates a consumer financial protection agency, and regulates the risky derivative scams and other financial instruments that helped drive our economy into the ditch. In addition, Senate Democrats finally overcame the Republicans’ ridiculous filibuster of extending unemployment benefits.

    These two achievements both show fundamental differences between the parties that have real impacts on the every day lives of millions of Americans. They also help demonstrate why we need to do everything in our power to make sure that the November elections lead to a larger progressive majority in the House and Senate, not a smaller one. Finally, they are further examples that refute the false canard that the Obama Administration has not achieved anything or has sold out progressives.

    I am not blindly in favor of everything the Administration does, and have expressed disappointment and exasperation with the Democrats frequently over the past 18 months. And I agree we need to push back on the crap that the right wing is doing to destroy well-intention folks like Ms. Sherrod. However, we need to be loudly and proudly trumpeting the successes that progressives have had over the past 18 months to help rally our side and make clear to the American people why they should not return power to the folks that destroyed our economy. Let’s use this blog to do that, rather than getting distracted by the latest right wing charade that comes down the pike.

  16. 16.

    PurpleGirl

    July 22, 2010 at 10:10 am

    @Violet: I will try that as my living room windows are more of window wall — nearly floor to ceiling and from one wall to the opposite side wall. And since I’m on the 17th floor how it looks doesn’t matter. Keeping the room, and especially the work corner (where the computer is) cool/comfortable is.

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    July 22, 2010 at 10:17 am

    @Violet: Did the mosquitoes get you the second your door cracked open?
    They are really bad this year.

  18. 18.

    sstarr

    July 22, 2010 at 10:25 am

    For whatever reason people in the Pacific Northwest seem to have a strong belief that you should never install an effective central heating or cooling system in any building. Results may vary.

    Today the temperature is 55, with the potential to soar into the low 70s. Grey and cloudy in the morning – what local forecasters like to call a “push of marine air.”

  19. 19.

    TooManyJens

    July 22, 2010 at 11:03 am

    ABC has apparently decided to hitch their wagon to Andrew Breitbart’s star:

    http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/andrew-breitbart-nightline-terry-moran-interview/story?id=11220699

    http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/andrew-breitbart-matt-drudge-arianna-huffington/story?id=11219422

  20. 20.

    Violet

    July 22, 2010 at 11:16 am

    @PurpleGirl:
    I found white cardboard worked the best, since it reflects the most light.

    @Corner Stone:
    Brutal. Had to fix something in the car last night and was outside at dusk. Thought it would take five seconds, took 20 minutes. Big mistake not to go with the bug spray. All the rain has woken up the little suckers.

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