At the Boy’s martial arts class today, I somehow didn’t avoid conversation with another parent. *sigh*
He started out with the usual stuff about Che Guevara being a commie – yeah, duh. Then it went downhill, with aspersions cast at those evil liberals. Apparently, the USA Patriot Act is not as bad as any rational person thinks, but it would be much worse if the liberals were in charge, as they’d certainly not have any sunset provisions. You remember the sunset provisions the conservatives have been so assiduously trying to extend into perpetuity.
The finale to this surreal trip down lala lane ended with a quick aside about how global warming is a crock. I have no response to this. Are other scientific findings equally suspect? Is germ theory also silly, since it makes no sense atavistically? I didn’t want to bring up evolution, but I think we can all guess where chucklehead would end up on that issue, eh? He even claimed that Mount St. Helens has produced more greenhouse gases in one explosion than all of human historical input. That’s incredibly wrong. That’s orders of magnitude wrong. All the volcanoes in the world produce 130 million tons of CO2 per year. Meanwhile, human activity per year produces 27 billion tons of CO2 per year. For those of you who think math is hard, billions are larger than millions, and humans produce 200 times the CO2 of volcanoes per year. That’s not Mount St. Helens, that’s ALL volcanic activity in the world.
There are days I’d really like to get out of this town. Fortunately, I can avoid these morons most of the time, and it is cheap here. Mostly. Anyone have a job in Monterey they need filled? Anyone? Anyone?
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