Our Arctic ice is melting.

There, I said it. I’m surrounded by people that insist there is no such thing as global warming, that it was all invented by “lefties” to push forward their tax-and-spend agenda, why did it snow so much if the earth is getting warmer, blah blah blah.

I’d love to tell them all to fuck off, but since I’m related to some of them, that isn’t very nice. So I try and needle them with pesky little “facts” once in a while, but they always have an answer.

How about this little bit?

WTF? You mean, after always having ice year round for say, the last million years or so, we’re looking at being ice free in the summer, and this is just normal? If I were to take a poll, right now in the room I am sitting in, out of the 100 people I bet the majority would insist it is normal, and there’s nothing we could do about it anyway. They probably have that last part right. The question is, what will this mean to everything else. The earth being like a giant rubik’s cube, where even if you get all the colors right on one side, chances are you’ll fuck up three or four other sides in the process.

Finally, this is not about being right. I hope to hell that my fears are unfounded, that the planet isn’t stricken with something akin to a cancer that we puny humans are powerless to treat. I really hope that ten years from now somebody will find this entry on google and come back and be able to honestly comment “see? Nothing to worry about, we’re all fine.” I really do.

Here’s where I found this gem, along with some wonderful discussion of music and tube men.

Via boing, boing.

This is from the lovely and talented folks at Despair.

My old image plugin has been upgraded to work with WP 2.5. I’m hoping this fixes all the BS that doesn’t work right with the default plugin (at least, it doesn’t work right for ME, and we all know that I’m special)

Get Image Manager here. I love it.

Oh, update: I also switched to Simple Tags. So far, so good.

Also? Feel the need?

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Me, too. Gotta wait damn near a month for this one. I can’t watch the trailer enough.

Finally, I screwed up big time. I promised the boys that if they got ready for school each morning this week, I’d take them to see Iron Man this weekend. But you may know (as I do now) that it doesn’t come until.. May 2.

Yeah. I said that.

So, since I can’t pull Iron Man out of my ass, I’m probably going to take Cathy’s suggestion and give the kids tin foil, cardboard, and perhaps high explosives and we’ll film our own Iron Man Movie.