**Editor’s note – All American Eagle feathers used in Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren’s faux-Indian headdress were gleaned from the remains of birds murdered by the White man’s Wind Generator totem.
Two events last week brought yet further twists to one of the longest-running farces of our modern world. One was the revelation by the European Space Agency that in 2013 and 2014, after years when the volume of Arctic ice had been diminishing, it increased again by as much as 33 per cent. The other was that Canadian scientists studying the effect of climate change on Arctic ice from an icebreaker had to suspend their research, when their vessel was called to the aid of other ships trapped in the thickest summer ice seen in Hudson Bay for 20 years.
Granted that Facebook thinks there are 58 gender options, but we think all of those choices can be easily be boiled down to three– the Men, the Women, and the Democrats (all the rest). Everyone’s bathroom problems solved.
And as long as we’re solving problems, let’s start working on those pesky female body-type issues. BYOB. Bring your own Barbie.
Frigid air will grip an unusually large portion of the Lower 48 states in just over a week’s time. The cold is predicted to consume almost the entire nation, from the Pacific Northwest to the Southeast, sparing only Florida.
While some parts of the country are forecast to experience temperatures 30 to 50 degrees colder than normal, the cold snap will be most remarkable for the amount of real estate it is predicted to cover.
Brian Brettschneider, a climatologist based in Alaska, noted Thursday that the National Weather Service’s six- to 10-day temperature outlook (below) projected the nation’s largest area with high confidence (90 percent probability) of below-normal temperatures in 15 years of issuing such outlooks.
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