The Barometer Online

When a group of CEOs from major companies are urging the president to do something about global warming, you would think Mr. Bush would listen up. But nay, the president will not budge, his spokesman said Monday. After all, why let pesky science play a roll in policy decisions? The Associated Press reported Monday that CEOs from 10 major corporations have written a letter to the president urging support for "mandatory reductions in climate-changing pollution" as well as new rules establishing reduction targets.

I love baccalaureate core classes. They're pretty much the most amazing things ever. In theory. Like communism, bac-core classes are great in principle, but lack a certain something in practical application. I can't think of another set of classes where I can sit in a lecture hall for an hour and a half and learn that the main reason for the wars between Europe and the Ottoman Empire was that some queen wanted more lip balm.

I spent this past weekend in a small Ukrainian village with the family of my translator, Tanya. While at Tanya's home, I was treated with the kind of attention and care that would normally be reserved for a visit by the president, well, a president people like - not G-dub, of course.

I'm scared of global warming. The Big Liberal conspiracy, led by Big Al Gore, has worked wonders on me. When I go to Newport I keep an eye out for glacial flows heading toward the coastline, and I sometimes wonder if the Coast Range is really strong enough to stave off the coming jökulhlaup, which according to my GEO 102 class, means glacial outburst flood.