Ligne’s faith in the pagan earth worshipped global warming god has been healed. Please don;t mess it up.

Now if you don;t mind NJ, how about pulling down your underwear so that flies and gnats can have a chance to feed plus it keeps them out of your face. You job will not be finished until a fly crawls up your butt and circles your uvula and exits.

Nevermind. men don;t have a uvula.

For the season we got 120 inches of the crap. So much of it that they had no idea what to do with it until they just capitulated and started dumping it in the rivers.

This year we’ve had barely an inch of snow since October 31st.

No appreciable snowfall since that October 31st dusting.

And here we are, January 4th and not a speck of it on the ground.

And to be honest, I rather like it this way. I hate walking on snow and ice.

I think this phenomenon says more about the subjective workings of memory, than about our failure to understand statistics (although the emotional power of the former may certainly contribute to the latter).

It seems to me that mental concepts such as “winter” gradually become imbued with the emotional impact of actual true-to-type experiences involving snow or similar iconic weather/activities. Similarly, the concept of “summer” becomes associated with actual true-to-type experiences of beaches and sunburn. Misleadingly, it then becomes difficult to remember that years gone by also featured summer days which were rainy and cold, or winter days which were warmish and sun-filled – unless something else with a powerful emotional impact (funeral, break-up, etc) were to have happened on such a day. Even then, the not-true-to-type nature of such a day would become, in retrospective memory, all the more ominous and meaningful.

This is why it is so important to have objective tools to record and measure things that the vast majority of us have no hope of remembering with any accuracy.

well *i* figure that if a statistician cannot predict the tenth flip of a coin, then why would i trust said statistician to predict the number of heads in a thousand flips?

“Was it manmade global warming caused form SUVs and lightbulbs that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs or the largest ice age? NO! Climate changes becuase it is a natural process.”

forest fires have been happening naturally for millions of years. so it’s logically impossible for my discarded barbecue to have caused that forest to burn down. can’t argue with watertight logic like that…

oh, and he’s a biblical literalist as well as an AGW denialist and alt-med loon. yay i win at crank bingo!

i thought he’d just blown his poe when i saw his posts ranting about haemorrhoids, but this return to form has restored my faith. thanks, Dr. 🙂

TODAY is a new month

But the drugstore couldn’t fill your script until this am, you know, because your mom’s insurance is picky about dates. You should be good until the end of this month; see you on another post!

That used to be a common misconception, but at this point, it is little more than a lie of the global warming denialists.

No I am not misinformed.

But it’s clear you are undermedicated. But, tomorrow is a new month, and your risperidone or clozapine will be available.