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Oh yes… look at the brand new trailer for The Hobbit
While I like Lord of the Rings, I like The Hobbit more… LOTR sets up a wide world with a grand adventure, but The Hobbit feels more like a real, personal story. I guess that’s because it is much more of a real, personal story. Plus, I absolutely love the animated Hobbit feature from 1977 more than pretty much any other movie.
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North Carolina tries to outlaw sea-level rise | Grist →
North Carolina is no stranger to the “if you dislike it then you should have made a law against it” model of legislation, but this is extreme: The state General Assembly’s Replacement House Bill 819 would rule that scientists are not allowed to accurately predict sea-level rise. By all legal calculations, the sea level will now rise eight inches by the end of the century. Sure, so far models have predicted an increase of more than three feet, but if they keep that shit up, they’re going to JAIL.
OK, there’s not really a prison sentence attached to this proposed rule, but that doesn’t stop it from being crazeballs. See, actual sea-level rise is nonlinear, because there’s feedback — the warmer it gets, the more the water volume expands, and the more stuff melts, and the more it expands, etc. That’s how most scientific models arrive at their predictions, because that is how physics works. But an increase that big is extremely inconvenient for a state with a beach-based tourist trade. So North Carolina’s solution is simple: Change how physics works, or at least change how people do physics.
Accordingly, this bill mandates that models use a linear increase — a consistent amount of change every year, based on historical data. This will lead to predictions that are much less catastrophic, and much more reassuring for people building resorts in the Outer Banks. The predictions will also be flat-out wrong, but that’s nothing new for North Carolina.
THIS IS PERFECT. These piss-brained fuckwads live lives that are circumscribed entirely by the seriocomic suite of badly-written fairytales that comprise the Christian canon, and so they think they can actually wish reality away. Just like they wish away their sins, and the poors, and the gay. I’m not sure the rest of us really appreciate the degree to which the Christ-humpers actually think facts can be negotiated. Not for public relations purposes, or even for profit, but for keepsies. They think their prayers are real; of course they think they can use the power of faith beat them durned evil scientists, too. That goddamn sea can’t rise fast enough, as far as I’m concerned.
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Tony Thornburg as Mr. Chow by Blair Getz Mezibov for GQ China May 2012
Tony Thornburg as My Husband by My Imagination for Things To Do When You Are Having A Quiet & Mildly Depressing Saturday Afternoon 2012 (he can even bring the mustache)
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