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Drabble: Snakes and Snails

tegdoh — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:40:14 GMT

Title: Snakes and Snails
Fandom/Characters: Harry Potter; Teddy Lupin & Ron Weasley
Rating/Warnings: mild child-centric sap
Word Count: 225
A/N: A follow-up to my drabble Sugar and Spice, as requested by merryb87 for this meme.

They have only just arrived at the Burrow when Teddy announces, in a rather loud voice, “We’re having a baby!” He looks around smugly at the sudden hush that envelopes the normally raucous kitchen, hoping perhaps that his indignation is at least shared by his adopted aunts and uncles. Instead, and much to his dismay, his mum is enveloped in a large hug by Gammolly, while his dad is practically knocked over by the slaps on the back given him by Granddad, Harry and Ron.

He goes to sulk on the landing.

“Hey, Ted.”

He merely glares at his Uncle Ron, who was one of the ones high-fiving his dad, after all.

“Can I tell you a secret?”

Teddy shrugs, not willing to concede any ground just yet.

“I wasn’t too thrilled when your Aunt Ginny came along, either. But, having a baby sister is actually pretty cool. You’re the older brother, see, so you’ll always get to do things first. And you can teach her stuff, like how to ride a broom, or play exploding snap. You’ll be her hero, mate.”

Teddy considers this new information. It doesn’t sound all that bad, when Uncle Ron puts it that way. And he does enjoy playing with Victoire, at least most of the time. Still...

“Couldn’t we rather have a dog?”

Climategate

tegdoh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:03:07 GMT

The climate conspiracy theory, in a nutshell:

1. A talented, motivated, highly mathematically able individual spends something on the order of a decade or more as a lowly, poor undergraduate, graduate student, and postdoc to obtain the “climate scientist union card”.

2. Upon attainment of this certification, said individual can try to find an academic professorship or civil service research position, most of which make far less money than any entry level stock analyst.

3. It apparently never occurred to this highly mathematically inclined individual that for a fraction of the time in school they could land a job on Wall Street making an order of magnitude more than any academic position as a low level starting salary.

4. Being angry at “capitalism” for some nebulous, inadequately explained reason, said individual concocts an elaborate, decades long plan along with numerous other individuals all around the world, which is all kept super secret, to convince people that human activity is making the atmosphere retain more heat over time which will have damaging environmental effects over time, the most serious of which would not be seen until after said individuals are dead.

5. After having to push and prod bureaucratic institutions and public opinion against much much better funded and hysterical opposition for years, they will stand to make assloads of cash, again through some nebulous, inadequately explained process.

I found #1 particularly amusing.

Without his lifelong friend, Puff could not be brave

tegdoh — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:15:56 GMT

Feeling rather melancholy today (and not at all brave) at the news that Mary Travers has died.

If I'm a socialist-pacifist leftie today it is due in no small part to listening to Peter, Paul and Mary when I was growing up. I remember listening to Where Have All the Flowers Gone and thinking how sad it was. Then there was Blowin' in the Wind, If I Had a Hammer, and of course, Puff. Trust me when I say that Peter, Paul and Mommy remains the best children's album of all time.

It's amazing to me that these three people remained together, throughout the turbulent 60s and beyond, making music on-and-off for 40 years. They never lost their respect or their love for one another (probably because they never slept with one another...). In fact, Paul Stookey's The Wedding Song (There is Love) was written as a wedding present for Peter Yarrow. They were just genuinely nice people who wanted to make a difference in the world, whether it was the Civil Rights movement, the Viet Nam war, or nuclear proliferation.

Rest in peace, Mary. You will be missed.

Ficlet for sspring92

tegdoh — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:06:21 GMT

Looks like carnivalgirl and I were on the same wavelength today.

This little piece of Lupin family fluff goes out to sspring92, in honor of her birthday. Hope this helps brighten your day, hon.

“Oof! Bloody Hell. Remus!”

“What? What is it?”

“It’s bad enough I have a crap day at work, do you have to leave your shoes in the middle of the bloody floor?”

To his credit, Remus was immediately apologetic and hurried across the room to help her climb to her feet. “I’m sorry. I was out in the garden earlier with Teddy, and didn’t want to track mud into the house. Here, let me take your cloak.”

Tonks limped over to the couch in a foul mood. Dawlish had been on her case all day about when she’d be coming back to work full time, Antonin Dolohov was still very much at large, and the Ministry cafeteria had run out of custard tarts. The last thing she needed was to trip over her husband’s shoes on the way into her own bloody home. To top it all off, Remus, the prat, had immediately disappeared without offering her her so much as a cup of tea. Tonks let out a huff of annoyance and rested her throbbing head against the back of the couch.

“Here we go, here’s Mummy.” Tonks opened one eye as Remus reappeared with Teddy, who let out an excited shriek when he saw her. She felt her annoyance melt away as Remus placed Teddy on the floor a few feet in front of the couch, and gave him an encouraging pat on the bum. “Shall we show Mummy what we learned today?”

Teddy teetered precariously before taking a few wobbling steps towards the couch, his arms stretched out towards her. Tonks scooped him up and held him close, breathing in his sweet scent, feeling tears prick at her eyes. “That’s my brilliant boy!” she whispered into his hair.

Her emotional reaction to their son’s first steps was not lost on Remus. He sat down on the couch and put his arm around them both. “Dora? What is it? What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know! It’s just ... sometimes I feel like I’m spinning my wheels at work, you know, and here’s Teddy, growing up without me.” She looked up at her husband through watery eyes. “Remus, am I a bad mother?”

“What? Of course not.”

“You have to say that.”

“Well, yes, if I want to keep all my limbs.” He narrowly avoided her elbow. “But I also happen to know that it’s true. Look at Teddy.” The object of their conversation was babbling happily to himself as he grabbed a fist full of Tonks’ shirt and started to pull. “He’s happy, he’s loved. His mum kicks Dark Wizard arse. What more could a boy want?”

Tonks laughed in spite of herself, and helped Teddy pull her shirt out of the way to nurse. She reveled anew at the contented sounds he made as he fed, his hand patting at her breast and his eyes seeking hers as if to say, ‘There you are. Missed you, Mummy.’

“I miss him so much when I’m at work, you know? But lately there’ve been times when I’ve been so caught up that I hardly give him a thought.”

“I know. And he misses you, too. We both do.” Remus leaned in to kiss her forehead. “He also knows that you love him, unconditionally. And when he’s older he’ll understand that you go to work everyday to make the world a safer place. And he’ll be damn proud his Mum’s an Auror.”

“You think so?”

“I know I am, and he’s my son, isn’t he?”

Teddy chose that moment to noisily disengage from her breast. He sat up and placed a chubby hand on each of Tonks’ cheeks, saying, “Muk. Muk, muh-muh.”

“Did he just –?” Tonks looked at Remus, who was grinning widely.

“I think he did.” While it was true that Teddy had developed a few words, among them “muk” for milk and “baba” for his blanket, this was the first time he had used a word for either of his parents. As if to prove his point he looked from Remus and back to Tonks again, repeating, “Muh-muh. Muh-muh.”

“That’s my brilliant boy!” exclaimed Remus as he picked Teddy up and proceeded to blow raspberries on his tummy. Soon the room was filled with the sound of Teddy’s giggles.

Life, Tonks decided, was pretty damned good when you got right down to it. She’d tell Dawlish on Monday that she had no intention of coming back to work full-time until Teddy was at least two years old. In the meantime, a three day weekend stretched before her, time to do nothing but enjoy her husband and her son. And perhaps, by the time she went back to work on Monday, she could teach Teddy to say “Dah-dah,” as well.

tegdoh — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:27:02 GMT

The Arctic's geological record indicates warming is human-caused -- latimes.com

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tegdoh — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:06:39 GMT

No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. In the words of the immortal Charles Dickens,

"Business!" cried the ghost, wringing his hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"

I ♥ Barney Frank

tegdoh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:17:04 GMT

Watch this.

tegdoh — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:50:51 GMT

tegdoh — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:59:40 GMT

I actually got a bit teary watching this.

Pass it on - let's see if we can make it go viral.

What Real Protest Looks Like

tegdoh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:36:06 GMT

h/t The Left Coaster

tegdoh — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:56:36 GMT

Ask President-elect Obama to end Mountaintop Removal.

On Marriage

tegdoh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:17:05 GMT

In 1967 the Supreme Court declared, in Loving vs. the State of Virginia: "Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man,' fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law. ... Under our Constitution, the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State."

Mildred Loving issued a statement last year, on the 40th year of the Supreme Court's decision:

Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don't think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the "wrong kind of person" for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people's religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people's civil rights. I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard's and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving, are all about.

I understand that there are those who believe that marriage is defined by God to be a union between one man and one woman. However, the fact that the government imbues marriage with certain civil privileges precludes these rights from being dependent on religious belief. We are not a theocracy. The religious beliefs of some, no matter how sincere or strongly held, cannot be recognized by the state as superior to the religious beliefs of others. More importantly, the religious beliefs of some cannot be used as an excuse to restrict the civil liberties of others.

What was true about interracial marriage 40 years ago is true for homosexual marriage today. The very idea that we can declare that some people, based on their sexual orientation, are second class citizens who are denied the rights inherent in civil marriage should be an anathema to anyone who believes in freedom of conscience and the idea that all people are equal under the law.

/soapbox

We Interrupt This Program for a Special Message

tegdoh — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:52:35 GMT

I'm sorry, I've really tried to avoid most things political on this blog, but I simply can't take it any more. I'm gonna 'splode if I hear one more person claiming that Obama is a communist/socialist/Muslim/terrorist, so I'm only going to say this once:

Barack Obama is not a Socialist!*^

The most recent audio making the rounds of conservative blogs has been spliced people. Obama’s position is completely misrepresented by the You Tube posting. The actual quote is:

I think that, you know, if you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order in, as long as I could pay for it, I'd be OK. But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.

And, to that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way that, generally, the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties -- says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf, and that hasn't shifted.

And one of the -- I think the tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rights movements became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And, in some ways, we still suffer from that.

He's saying that the civil rights movement became too focused on the courts, not that the courts should have a hand in "redistributing the wealth."

We now return you to your original programming.

I am going to have an ulcer by the time this election is over.

*I suspect the response of our British friends to this statement is something along the lines of "Duh."

^or communist, terrorist, Muslim, etc.

Friends Only

tegdoh — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:05:08 GMT

Comment to be added.

The Electricity Fairy

tegdoh — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:09:18 GMT

In order not to clog up your flist or my journal with too many Appalachia-related posts, I've created a new community on Mountaintop Removal, aptly named king_coal. It's completely open, so please feel free to either friend it or add it to your watch list if this stuff interests you.

If I might hold your attention for one more minute ... one of the most astounding things (to me) about this whole mess is how ubiquitous mtr-based coal has become. Do you know where your electricity comes from? You might be surprised. Enter your zip in the box provided.

Pin this badge on your site.

Damon Morgan

tegdoh — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:34:23 GMT

Our first stop on the Appalachian Tour was to meet Damon Morgan. Mr. Morgan is an 84-year old retiree who returned to his family land after a career on the railways. His plans for a quiet retirement were scuttled when mining companies began surveying his land for mountain top removal to get at the coal below. Mr. Morgan has received an education by fire in political activism, and has traveled to Central America to share what he has learned with indigenous people fighting to save their land.

(The audio isn't great; you might want to turn up the volume.)

For more background and the human face of mountain top removal, see Erik Reece's Death of a Mountain

Happy 4th of July

tegdoh — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:40:09 GMT

A great moment in American history:

Marian Anderson

SF Books Meme

tegdoh — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:16:43 GMT

Now, this is more like it.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert
4. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
5. A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6. Neuromancer, William Gibson
7. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
10. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11. The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe - didn't like it much for some reason
12. A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
13. The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov - huh, missed this one
14. Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras should probably check this one out
15. Cities in Flight, James Blish - another by an author I shouldn't have missed
16. The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17. Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
18. Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19. The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20. Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany - His shorter novels are better
21. Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
22. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
23. The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
24. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
25. Gateway, Frederik Pohl
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling - Not sure this really belongs on the list (please don't hate me!)
27. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
28. I Am Legend, Richard Matheson - my guess is the Wil Smith movie bears little resemblance. I'll check it out
29. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice - meh, nothing to write home about
30. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31. Little, Big, John Crowley
32. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33. The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
34. Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35. More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36. The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith - I lurves me some Cordwainer Smith!
37. On the Beach, Nevil Shute - Another one I've always meant to read
38. Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39. Ringworld, Larry Niven
40. Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien - Yes, I slogged my way through this in the sixth grade, and felt ever so grown up.
42. Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
43. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson - tried, but really couldn't get into it
44. Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
45. The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
46. Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
47. Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48. The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
49. Timescape, Gregory Benford
50. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer

Only 50?? Not a bad list, if a bit thin on women writers. Where are Sherri Tepper? Kate Wilhelm? Octavia Butler? to name but a few.

IMHO at least a few of these should have made the first list - Fahrenheit 451 is a prime example.

Great Books Meme

tegdoh — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:29:08 GMT

Gacked almost instantaneously from katyscarlett76 (because I'm sick of looking at my class notes and my research students are driving me nuts)

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - I suppose, just to see what all the fuss is about.
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible - bits and pieces
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - at least a large fraction thereof
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Mr Tegdoh's favorite book
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis .
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery - when I was very young
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth - I'm trying to read more South Asian fiction
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - some
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery - didn't care for it much
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Obviously, there is not enough science fiction on this list. :P

Phoenix

tegdoh — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:13:52 GMT

Phoenix on Mars

The left-hand side is an actual picture of the entry, complete with parachutes, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. That is just so cool.

ROFLMAO

tegdoh — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:30:04 GMT

Hello?

and yay! Phoenix lander

Arthur C. Clarke

tegdoh — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:50:40 GMT

Dec. 16, 1917 - March 18, 2008

"If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run--and often in the short one--the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative."

sign me up

tegdoh — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:33:55 GMT

Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics)
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You scored as Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)

The universe is erupting into war and your government picks the wrong side. How much worse could things get? It doesnâ€™t matter, because no matter what you have your friends and you'll do the right thing. In the end that will be all that matters. Now if only the Psi Cops would leave you alone.

Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)

75%

Moya (Farscape)

69%

Enterprise D (Star Trek)

63%

Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)

63%

Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

63%

Serenity (Firefly)

56%

SG-1 (Stargate)

56%

Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)

50%

FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)

50%

Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)

44%

Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)

31%

Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)

25%

Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)

25%

tegdoh — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:04:00 GMT

This image has been floating around today, although its actually from 2005:
Hubble and the Eye of Sauron

And another image from 2006 seems awfully familiar:
The Kosh nebula (it's actually called the "Eskimo Nebula")

Amen

tegdoh — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:31:50 GMT

The Way I See It #289
So-called “global warming” is just
a secret ploy by wacko tree-
huggers to make America energy
independent, clean our air and
water, improve the fuel efficiency
of our vehicles, kick-start
21st-century industries, and make
our cities safer and more livable.

Don’t let them get away with it!

– Chip Giller
Founder of Grist.org, where
environmentally-minded people
gather online.