http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/...211691.php

One of the great loves of my life: the Houston Chronicle comments section. The one for this particular article doesn't disappoint.

Although I do not like to admit there is climate change, I wonder why we have not had a really cool day yet this fall. We used to get the first one about the first or second week of October.

(10-10-2011 03:55 PM)texd Wrote:  http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/...211691.php

There was a story on this on NPR this morning. Anderson was one of my favorite geology professors. His motives and integrity are beyond reproach. Too bad the same can't be said of the TCEQ.

(10-10-2011 05:47 PM)75src Wrote:  Although I do not like to admit there is climate change, I wonder why we have not had a really cool day yet this fall. We used to get the first one about the first or second week of October.

Why don't you like to admit it?

(10-30-2011 03:40 PM)Old Sammy Wrote:  

(10-10-2011 05:47 PM)75src Wrote:  Although I do not like to admit there is climate change, I wonder why we have not had a really cool day yet this fall. We used to get the first one about the first or second week of October.

Why don't you like to admit it?

Presumably because one would then feel some sort of responsibility? Hell I hate thinking about climate change...

After visiting Monticello last weekend, and realizing that my favorite president really was a standard slave-owner of his day (floggings, malnutrition, etc), despite being you know, a thoughtful, educated man made me realize there are many things we don't even question that future generations will look back and think "wow that was messed up, what the hell were they thinking?" I have to think one of them is likely how we all drive our own 2 - 3000 lb hunk of metal, rubber, plastic, and glass, burning up all kinds of non-renewable fossil fuels and spewing crap into the atmosphere just because it's reeeeally far to walk to the corner store for a pack of smokes or OJ or whatever.

(10-30-2011 11:56 PM)emmiesix Wrote:  ...After visiting Monticello last weekend, and realizing that my favorite president really was a standard slave-owner of his day...

They try to downplay that about Washington at Mount Vernon. "Oh, but he put it in his will that all of his slaves would be freed after Martha passed away..."