Open Thread - Friday, August 17, 2018
Submitted by NCTim on Fri, 08/17/2018 - 3:20am
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
- Kurt Vonnegut -
Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.
- Kurt Vonnegut -


Hothouse Earth
Last week I linked to the Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene, published by leading European climate scientists. Their goal was to assess the risk of cascading climate feedbacks as well as the risk of a Hothouse Earth Pathway.





August 13 is the 225th day of the year; as well as Setting Orange, Bureaucracy 6, 3184 YOLD to discordians.

Sandy Koufax, Ted Williams, The Snake. Any question?
Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift, look out kid, ...

and it is also Prickle-Prickle, Bureaucracy 5, 3184 YOLD
(for you Discordians out there)
It should be prety much the peak of the Perseid meteor shower, and, I shit you not, it is called The Glorious Twelfth in Britain because it is the start of the Grouse Shooting season. I don't know if I can top that, I mean, really ...
Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.

