Motherfuckers. Ringo was the coolest Beatle, the humanizing Beatle, and far from expendable.

It's true, you'all can't drive in the snow.

That LA Times article is totally shit-tastic.

I guess Regina Spektor will have to head back to the studio to re-record 'Ghost of Corporate Future', now that it's been determined that hair does not grow after you're dead.

And undermining Ringo is -so- ridiculous. The guy has shown class and civility for decades. Fnarf is correct.

When it snows in the midwest, it's actually snow. Most of you would shit your pants in terror.

@4 That's why most of us wouldn't live in the Midwest.

Tom Friedman has an awesome column in today's New York Times, In the Age of Noah. He argues that we can't be losing sight of the other catastrophe, besides climate change, that the human race is wreaking on the earth, the destruction of the natural world.

The world is rightly focused on climate change. But if we don’t have a strategy for reducing global carbon emissions and preserving biodiversity, we could end up in a very bad place, like in a crazy rush into corn ethanol, and palm oil for biodiesel, without enough regard for their impact on the natural world.

It's stunning to me how this nation is uncritically rushing into mandating biofuels as a replacement for oil and gas, when most biofuels actually do even more harm to the planet than oil and gas. It's stunning to me all the feel-good liberal Seattleites who have taken up the cause of biofuels like it's actually good for the environment.

I just happen to be reading a book now, The Sixth Extinction, about how the earth is going through the greatest mass extinction ever. And not just a loss of biodiversity, but of cultural diversity.

But never mind that. Let's rip down even more forests and natural habitat so we can grow even more crops so we can "feed" our insatiable appetite to drive. I instinctively feel that I'm committing a sin any time I throw away food. And instinctively I feel the same way about growing food for a purpose other than food when it's blatantly obvious that doing so is unsustainable.

When I see what we wonderful Americans and our friends the Chinese are doing to the world we have been given, I feel like words like "tragedy" and "evil" just aren't adequate. I feel like I'm watching the Holocaust unfold during World War II and most people are incapable of seeing what I'm seeing.

Speaking of awesome columns in The New York Times. Frank Rich. Check it out.

Can you believe Rich received a handwritten two-page letter from Bill Clinton in response to a previous column? See column.

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And the cutest. He was so adorable in A Hard Day's Night.

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@4, if we had public transportation as good as Chicago, e.g., subways, I would be totally cool with their snow. However, in this public transportation retarded neck of the woods, we would have no choice but to slip and slide into accidents in our cars or get stuck on a bus because the tram bus can't get up an icy hill.

@6 most of the biofuels that Seattle drivers use are recycled vegetable oil, perfectly responsible. The stuff coming out of the midwest and brazil not as much

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What they are doing in the midwest and in Brazil is on a much more massive scale, and there is a ton of money invested into research, so they can derive
biodeseil out of biowaste(ie: corn stalks, weeds, switch grass) that doesn't harm the food supply. The technology doesn't exist there yet, but it will. They are pretty close. Most of it has to with harnessing specific enzymes that break down the tough fibers. And once they create a closed system feedback plant, where the fuel they create feeds the energy to make the energy, with a net gain, that will be the answer. It's not that far off.