Senator James Mountain Inhofe (R-OK) -because everybody knows there’s no such thing as climate change:

This shitbag lies while his state burns – just terrific:

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The world you grow up in is the world you take for granted. It’s the baseline for all that follows. That’s what fascinates us about generations — the world of foiks ten or twenty years older or younger than us is a different world than ours. They overlap like circles in a Venn diagram, but they’re not identical.

When we were ten, we saw live video from the surface of New Mexico the Moon. We were old enough to know it was Important, but TV itself was a given. It’s not like we grew up in a radio culture. Or with gramophones.

As we grew aware of these things, it was a commonplace observation that folks a few generations older had really been on a ride — from the Wright Brothers to Apollo 11. We had missed most of the Twentieth Century action. We were late to the party.

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Live or Memorex?

One of my assistants on WRR has contacts in the Highway Department who are most unhappy. This is a real sign out there, more are on the way.

Live, then, until we hear otherwise. Either way, somebody’s a genius.

Wisconsin Resistance Radio [via Weigel]

Let’s face it, there’s a lot left to do. Climate change, the economy, immigration reform, two wars we shouldn’t be fighting – you know the drill. And let’s face another fact: as long as the GOP and conservatives have any political power, nothing will get done. They will block any reforms and enact laws that drag us back to the Jim Crow past they love so well. We are effectively ruled by sociopaths.

Conservatives exist to question, and undo, any sort of progress.  Abortion finally legal?  Not so fast, lefty. Segregation ended?  Not according to Rand Paul and other bigots. Evolution and climate change proved real? Not according to the GOP. And the gold standard, attacking  immigrants, immediately using their new House majority to target women, children, gays, and unions, and on and on.

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The earthquake destruction in Japan, especially from the tsunami, has been devastating. Now we wait for the waters to hit – CNN saying they’ll hit Vancouver and Seattle by 8 am PDT, and then sweep down the west coast. Meanwhile, in Japan, they’re digging through the damage and trying to get the nuke plants shut down before their cooling systems fail. Friend in Tokyo’s FB update said this was a more violent and longer earthquake than any she has been in (and she went through the Northridge quake in LA).

And yesterday I was planning to post a piece today making fun of the “Supermoon will Trigger Earthquakes” kook.

ADD: Updated to include some tsunami maps from NOAA after the jump.

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The recent events in Wisconsin are, on one level, baffling. Somehow the GOP has convinced voters that the best way to balace state budgets is to squeeze the wages of middle class families –in this case public sector workers– while keeping taxes low for the wealthy. Today, a story on school property taxes in the New York Times sheds more light on this peculiar direction our country has taken. The article focuses on the decidedly upper crust community of Bronxville, New York, and the desire of its residents to maintain high academic standards and good schools, but not have to actually pay for them:

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Wow! What an exciting week! After incorporating an independent MySQL database within a WordPress display framework, we devised a barebones AJAX widget to handle refresh-free logins with dynamic error messages, adapted a jQuery Javascript plugin to display clickable and auto-loading overlays, deployed another jQuery plugin with CSS rollovers to replace form radio buttons with clickable highlighting images, pulled off a CSS3 gradient to create easily resized backgrounds that default to flat colors in older browsers, handcrafted cookies with salted-hash sha1 session IDs, and… and…

Hello?

Fine. Be that way. Here’s some bestiality. We have work to do.

[via Ezra]