Cyniscism on Climate and what about DADT?

There are days like today when I wake up and see that its been snowing throughout the night (or at least the early morning). I see the white city landscape and after I´ve had a breakfast of fresh baked German bread I sit down and turn on the computer and read that the belief that Climate Change is taking place is shrinking in two different polls.

What is the reason? Some are suggesting its the "evidence" in the East Anglia emails scandal (to which many have posed the question: what evidence to deaf ears). Or perhaps its the snow outside my door and outside many doors in the world this winter season? To be honest climate change is not my area of expertise, but I wonder if it really was the case that the whole thing was such a hoax, that some solid evidence for it couldn´t be uncovered. If George Bush and the neo-con boys couldn´t expose it (and imagine the things it would have done for the party had they uncovered that leftist plot{please note irony here}) then I am wondering if there might not be something really going on. I love to hear non-scientists yell themselves blue in the face about the issue, love to hear them talk about the controversy as they call it, I love it so much I have a new idea for how to deal with climate change and its associated ills: lets just ignore it.

Why? Because obviously there isn't enough political will to change things anyhow. Business as usual prevails in the world we live in, so lets just let this one go. To be honest it won't be our problem anyway. Someone else will have to deal with it. Thats the nice thing about pollution: if I can't see the landfill, it isn't there. If my shit is washed down the toilet, it ceases to exist. The trash truck that empties the garbage twice a week is magic and everything inside it just vanishes. If we ignore Climate Change I am sure it will just fix itself.

I was shocked(no I have become unshockable in my cyniscism) to discover this morning that two generals had spoken out against the potential repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT). These two homophobes have this idea that its going to disturb the armed forces somehow. Are they assuming that there are no gays there and suddenly they will be forced to accept all these gay recruits? No other "western" country has a law as stupid as DADT and they are all doing fine. If they are concerned that a significant portion of the military is homophobic and will drop out because they have to serve with homosexuals, then wouldn't it be a welcome change to get rid of the bigots in uniform. Can we start with these two generals? The military would be better off immediately.


Lets end this on a happier, more interesting note on culture and art: In Berlin.

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