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Posted on 10.27.11 by Danny Glover @ 9:18 am
One of the most common complaints about the media is that they emphasize bad news almost to the exclusion of good news. The truth of that critique was never more obvious than in yesterday’s “Pictures of the Day” on Lens, a New York Times blog about photography. Readers were treated to a series of photo stories full of bad news, including:
The Times apparently prefers to front load its journalism with bad news and end on a happier note, though. The 12th picture of 13 featured a colorful image of a prayerful religious festival in Sri Lanka and then this gorgeous snapshot of a double rainbow over London. Filed under: Human Interest and News & Politics and Photography and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.14.11 by Danny Glover @ 10:25 am
One of my many weather-related fears is being caught on the road (or on a commuter train, which is how I get to and from work these days) during a tornado. Several people in Virginia experienced that situation last night at about the time I headed home from work. Here are videos of the small tornado and flying debris that crossed I-95 south of Quantico: Filed under: News & Politics and Video and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.01.11 by Danny Glover @ 8:57 am
What do you get when you mix politics and weather? An “attack ad” against winter that rings true to me as I type from a New York hotel room with more winter weather on the way. At this point, I’m not certain that my Amtrak train will take me back to the Washington, D.C., area tomorrow. Summer gets my vote, but the election won’t be soon enough. Filed under: Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Video and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.14.10 by Danny Glover @ 12:30 pm
How would you like to live in a lighthouse? Sound romantic? Not so much. Watch this: Filed under: Human Interest and Video and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.23.10 by Danny Glover @ 7:01 pm
It took two Green Bay, Wis., residents nine weeks to build the igloo, which is 17 feet, 4 inches tall and 27 feet, 4 inches in diameter. They broke the previous record in the “Guinness Book Of World Records,” which was 13 feet, 8 inches tall and 25 feet, 9 inches in diameter. Filed under: Human Interest and News & Politics and Video and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.02.09 by Danny Glover @ 7:23 pm
A picture really is worth a thousand words. The global warming crowd gathered in Washington today to protest a coal power plant at the Capitol, and the Greenpeace solar-panel truck ended up being covered with snow from the March — yes, March — snowstorm. The sign painted on the side says, “America can stop global warming.” Yes, we can! And we did; we stopped it cold with a snowstorm. The Competitive Enterprise Institute captured the ironic moment on film. Odds are good that you won’t see it in the mainstream media, which doesn’t want to burst the global warming bubble. Filed under: Government and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Photography and Weather and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.27.08 by Danny Glover @ 12:15 pm
The gang at Minnesotans For Global Warming sure are a creative bunch of enlightened rednecks. President and founder Elmer Beaureguard debuted on YouTube two years ago with a video that embraced car exhaust as “the nectar of global warming” and has supplemented it with a series of videos since then. The latest, “12 Days Of Global Warming,” just went online, and it takes climate-change fear-monger Al Gore to task overplaying his hand in the world’s current pet environmental debate. Watch and enjoy. Filed under: Just For Laughs and News & Politics and People and Video and Weather Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.20.08 by Danny Glover @ 7:30 am
When I was a child and tornado watches and warnings were broadcast for our area, my mother tried to reassure my brothers and me that we needn’t worry because the geography of the Ohio Valley in West Virginia where we lived made tornadoes a rarity. The mountains along either side of the Ohio River discouraged the collision of hot and cold air masses that form tornadoes. Those would have been comforting words if Mom hadn’t followed with a horrifying qualifier that, near as my wild imagination can recall, went something like this: “But if a tornado does form in the valley, it will be like Armageddon. The mountains will trap the funnel cloud, which will bounce off one mountain and then the other, all the way up the valley, destroying everything in sight.” To this day, I get the chills every time a tornado watch or warning is broadcast. Not even maps like the one below from Popular Science, which shows the unlikelihood of death by tornado as opposed to natural disasters like extreme heat or cold, give me much peace of mind. Filed under: Weather Comments: None |






