Wednesday, July 20: A Melting Empire
EU facing emergency, make tough choice to place one (1) ice cube in their drinks
The heat wave in Europe has officially arrived, driving temperatures through the roof and fueling all kinds of hard conversations. The mighty British empire has been reduced to toddling in garbage bins and covering bridges in foil to keep them from melting. It seems the general global climate strategy of “do fuck all and hope that it only gets hot for the poors” has not been as effective as once thought. Wildfires are raging across Europe, drought and famine are sweeping across swaths of southern Asia and Africa, tings are lookin real bad.
To make matters worse, I’m running late for work and can’t elaborate further, so here’s some light reading to get you through the day.
Side Items
Some masterful storytelling on the cancellation of a cultural icon…Alan Dershowitz
Nancy Pelosi and her scumbag husband continue to make millions through stock trading; is it clever or is it criminal?? (It’s criminal)
TOO many people focused on the January 6 Circus, not enough people throwing eggs at Joe Mansion
A 25 year old Indiana pizza man ran into a burning house earlier this month to save four children only to turn around, run back into the flames to save the last child, jump out a window with her, and carry her to the police waiting outside (doing nothing). Nicholas Bostic, a living hero. Send him a dollar if you want