Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Light on Orange leaves



8 comments:

  1. It's warmer today, and Dean is still first.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Alan, on the last thread you commented, regarding the cold snap here in Vermont, saying:

    "Gee--Global warming if ever I saw evidence of it; 17 degrees F is now obviously much warmer than it used to be!"

    But that's like saying that if the Red Sox fumble a particular play they will not win the World Series. For a more scientific explanation:
    http://www.livescience.com/42353-winter-storms-and-global-warming.html

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Did you catch that Alan was joking about the mosquito?

      Delete
  3. By the way, Catreona, the tree featured out front today is actually out in front of the Vermont Country Store in Weston, Vermont! :-)

    ReplyDelete
  4. So nice about the Canadians waking up!! Gives me hope for us, lol!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Truly, puddle, truly!!

      Hope! Hope! Hope!

      Delete
    2. I found myself today reflecting on how communication and community have changed so much in the very recent past; cell phones, smart phones, social media, ways of disseminating and accessing news, information, entertainment, etc. Gallup (!) gave up polling the US Presidential race. The old methods of polling don't seem to work, the old ways of running political campaigns don't seem to work, and new ways are being discovered bit by bit. A lot of candidates and pundits will be gobsmacked. The Liberals went from 36 seats to 184 in the Canadian Parliament when the Tories and NDP expected to crush them. Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the UK Labour Party when his name was entered merely as a straw man, to make it look like the competition was open. A ten per cent. increase in voting, or even five per cent., in the US could dramatically alter the political status quo, and who is to say that couldn't happen? We are living in times that are very interestingly unsettled and inscrutable. There was a columnist writing in Mother Jones yesterday or today who described the GOP as not The Party of No, but The Party of No Escape--completely incapable of doing anything because it is immobilized by competing powerful factions. If one of the proofs of something's existence (hey--college Philosophy!) is that it is able to cause things to happen, might we not posit a corollary that if a political party can't accomplish anything, it effectively does not exist? Will we see the demise of the GOP? Then another political party should arise. Something like the GOP of decades past would be welcome, but I doubt there is enough residue of that party to rebuild from; it would probably be constructed de novo--and that could happen VERY quickly. Interesting. And Bernie may well be The Next Big Thing. Well, we shall see. Hoping here too.

      --Alan

      P.S.: Maybe the Liberals needed to wander in the wilderness for a few years...

      Delete
    3. The whole country has been wandering, and it's past time for coming home.

      Delete