Matt Davies for February 03, 2023

Buzzkill Phil.

The Groundhog is coming . . . and is he pi$$ed!

It takes a rodent to predict the obvious… humans mostly have their head in the sand!

Anti-intellectualism is going to have a massive impact on the country in the long run. A large group of people no longer feel that public schools, scientists and experts are good enough and that they can “do and know better.” They cannot, and their idiot children will think exactly like they do. In 20-30 years there will be just as many idiots, if not more so.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov

The Canadian groundhog known as Fred la Marmotte was found dead hours before the annual ceremony.

If we would just listen and learn from nature, we’d all be better off.

it is more than 6 weeks of climate change we have in front of us

How are the police pension funds?Anyone check out David Sirota article in the Guardian? Private equity and pension funds?“… the unholy alliance between some unions and Wall Street firms flew under the radar, even as pension funds were ravaged by fees. But with warnings of write-downs and losses getting louder, the dynamic could change.”

Slip slidin’ away…

Republicans don’t get it.

I love this cartoon…………………….facts……………………so much better than bizarre traditions.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/02/quebec-canada-dead-groundhog-spring-undetermined

A lot is being done to research the impact of climate change on the oceans, sea life, weather, nature in general; but I wonder if anyone is studying the effects of climate change on the man-made geopolitical world. We talk about losing our coastlines when the oceans rise and we talk about the difficulty farmers have in growing crops when the weather, etc. change; but we don’t seem to get to the reality that people will be moving — somewhere. 37% of the world’s population lives ‘near a coastline.’ And then there are the farmers and ranchers who can no longer work ‘their’ land because of draughts/floods/etc. They will have to move to newer pastures or, at the very least, we will have to locate fertile soil somewhere.

Oh, wait, that is already happening! People have been migrating from countries in Africa and Central and South America (and elsewhere) because they can no longer survive where they were. Wars (often over control of land), famine, draught, etc. have been forcing people to look for new places to live and work for decades. And the ‘big moves’ haven’t even begun yet.

Since you drew the cartoon, and are not limited by computer fonts, the 2 in the middle chart should be a subscript.

Punxsutawney Phil, you have been wrong 61% of the time.

groundhogs have more capacity to understand science than republiCONs

Doesn’t matter. The MAGATS and other cuckservatives have their orders. No amount of proof will change their minds

Is John Baggett trying for the Most Delusional MAGAt trophy?

I blame teacher unions