Bush thinks the oil refineries need a break from trying to keep the world so clean.

Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline

Good thing too, I was beginning to think we were hitting a plateau in the warming trend but nope- with refineries going at full-scale tilt, New Orleans will be in summer all year long. Hello sunshine and warmer oceans! The tourism market in New Orleans will go nuts when we become the US's version of Venice. But instead of gondolas we'll have pirogues of coarse.

Scary:

In pictures: How the world is changing

Its a "then and now" photo essay of different places around the world and how they are affected by global warming. Creepy.

I don't know why this tickles me:
Lawmaker Sends Voter Obscene Letter

And here is a picture of the alleged foul-mouthed culprit:






And if you're still interested, here is the letter- the obsenity is in the last sentence. What a vulgar, little potty-mouth.

The corruption of congress members has just gone too far. Sure, bribery from lobbyists, illegal campaign contributions, using political extortion to change votes on the floor... same ole, same ole. But now an ex-staffer of Congressman Conyers' office says the congressman made his staffers ...get this... watch his kids! He may as well as shot somebody! Crazy bastard!
Okay, its not cool that he did this, but its really small if put into context to the other scandals in the papers today. Measly even.