Must mention kickAAS, the campaign to end Agricultural subsidies. Here's wishing it well.

Been pondering a bit on the Right Wing denial of global warming and the virulence thereof, sparked off by Bush's latest foray.

I know you can't get a spell of hot weather without some environmentalist killjoy uttering doom and gloom, but the free market right's seemingly absolute insistence that there is not now, nor will there ever be, any problem at all, whatsoever, with climate change, despite all the evidence to the contrary, is a mystery.

I'm lying, it's not a mystery at all. Energy lobbying comes into it bigtime, of course, but so does the curious absolutism of many a rightwinger's psyche.

Because, here, you see, we have a problem with no free market solution, ipso facto the problem does not exist.