Thursday, June 09, 2005

A fine quote, and something on the weather

Over at Acidman's place, between posts about shooing cats away from bird nests, was this:
quote of the day
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
P.J. O'Rourke

On the weather, when I got up this morning the 'partly cloudy' predicted last night was solid overcast. The weather weenies said a 30% chance of scattered rain in this area.
About 30 minutes later on the radio it was a 20% chance.
About an hour later it started raining.
Now we've got a severe thunderstorm watch over the area for most of the day. And the 'official' forecast still says 20% chance of storms, as thunder rolls around outside and the county just northeast of here has flash flood warnings out.
But the 'experts' can tell us what the weather and climate will be doing over the next hundred years or so.
Uh huh.

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