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3 Ways Climate Change is going to ruin your Beer:

The stupid.. IT BURNS.. and I lost IQ points from reading those comments.

and regarding cassava:
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/cassava.htm

#2 figment on 2014-06-09 07:33 (Reply)

I thought global warming was going to melt the polar ice caps and make the world wetter and warmer?

#2.1 NJSoldier on 2014-06-09 07:57 (Reply)

according to an article I read on Mother Jones, warmer longer growing seasons lead to less nutritional crops.

and Yes, I lost brain cells reading that, too. I gave it to my friends who farm and we had some good laughs over it. (because otherwise we'd be crying)

#2.1.1 figment on 2014-06-09 20:52 (Reply)

Can we really take it seriously when the solution to water shortages in California is to move your brewery to Chicago?

And should we have much faith in the citation of declining snow pack in Idaho when Lake Superior isn't expected to be ice-free till July?

#2.2 JKB on 2014-06-09 09:56 (Reply)

re: Nietzsche Club banned

Amazing. Most American kollege students don't even know who this "Club" guy is.

#3 Skool Daze on 2014-06-09 08:54 (Reply)

He's certainly not as well known as the guy who wears the beret and makes t-shirts with his face on them for angry youth.

#3.1 JKB on 2014-06-09 09:45 (Reply)

So does Dawkins have any scientific evidence for his claim re: fairy tales?

#4 DrTorch on 2014-06-09 09:22 (Reply)

Does he really need any?

#4.1 mudbug on 2014-06-09 09:32 (Reply)

It is not a coincidence that "Thousands of unaccompanied minors crossing the border". They didn't all just decide one day to head North. This is ochestrated by a coalition of American activists and South American activists. The clear intent is to overwhelm the borders and "invade" the country. The prize is an anchor child who can bring in the rest of the extended family and reap the reward of tens of thousands of dollars in benefits to each and every illegal alien with or without amnesty. Currently illegal immigration costs about $330 billion in federal funds while the states may well incur a similar cost as well. What will doubling or tripling of the illegals mean to the average American? You have to wonder why then our politicians are in favor of some version of amnesty (which of course will NOT be called amnesty).

#5 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-06-09 10:37 (Reply)

Hmm... As a beer drinker, I should apply to Tom Steyer's Global Warming Victims Fund! I might get a six pack out of it!

#6 mudbug on 2014-06-09 10:54 (Reply)

Why oh why would anyone care to try to force Netflix to continue to use the same business model as the major networks? Why would they do that? Is it because "binge watching" and Netflix itself is the nose under the camel's tent--the beginning of the end for network control of our minds, what we watch, how we entertain ourselves and of course concomitantly how we purchase--staying on cable tv is the continual feeding of old addictions. The ability to break away from cable tv goes along with the ability to break away from the three major news filters (CBS, NBC, PBS). So perhaps it's not just the well-being of Netflix that worries these critics--perhaps, they too are just plants trying to do their master's bidding--get the crowd to do what they are told to do. I love binge watching--they don't ask for our opinion do they? They just want you to know it's a bad business plan--sheesh!

#7 another one on 2014-06-09 10:58 (Reply)

McCarthy was an optimist. He said there were 47 communists working for the government, or something like that. The NSA Venona transcripts contain hundreds of cover names, most still unidentified.

#8 Ray on 2014-06-09 11:39 (Reply)

Sprawl: Do I trust The Atlantic? No.

Dawkins: Suffers from a bad case of the super-unnatural.

Progressives: Keep calling them McCarthyists--they'll HATE that.

#9 Sam L. on 2014-06-09 14:49 (Reply)

Militant Atheist Richard Dawkins Denounces Fairy Tales.

Consider the following book: The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales. The mere title of this book might suggest that if you are a militant atheist, you would have good reason to denounce fairy tales. Rather like chasing smoke.

Those of us who are not militant atheists- I used to be one- would wonder about the value of spending your time denouncing fairy tales.

#10 Gringo on 2014-06-09 22:33 (Reply)

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Monday, June 9. 2014

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