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HE ASKED FOR IT
James Wolcott will be ever so excited:
Experts: NYC About Due For Major Hurricane
If any NYC-bound hurricanes are reading this, Wolcott’s Vanity Fair office is in the Condé Nast building on the corner of Times Square; 22nd floor. You can’t miss it. At least, I hope you don’t.
(Via the super-readworthy Ed Driscoll)
That’ll wipe the smug off his prissy face.
Heh.
Not that I’d want NYC to get hit by a hurricane, of course. I’m expecting this year to be as uneventful as last year.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 12 at 09:01 PM • permalink“Experts say it will happen”
Wolcott and the experts probably did this physics course at high school and this curly one was the last question of their exam -
“Electricity can also be generated using renewable energy sources. Look at this information from a newspaper report.The energy from burning bio-fuels, such as woodchip and straw, can be used to generate electricity.
Plants for bio-fuels use up carbon dioxide as they grow.
Farmers get grants to grow plants for bio-fuels.
Electricity generated from bio-fuels can be sold at a higher price than electricity generated from burning fossil fuels.
Growing plants for bio-fuels offers new opportunities for rural communities. Suggest why, apart from the declining reserves of fossil fuels, power companies should use more bio-fuels and less fossil fuels to generate electricity.
Suggest why, apart from the declining reserves of fossil fuels, power companies should use more bio-fuels and less fossil fuels to generate electricity.”How sad to see a beautiful subject like physics reduced to the level of appalling political drivel. More at Lubos Motl
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 12 at 09:15 PM • permalinkOT But the luvvie flatus providers are tackling one of the most pressing issues facing Australian women today: the injustice of being dissed in the Age.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 12 at 09:39 PM • permalinkKinda back on topic, my local bird-cage liner, the Sutherland-St George Leader reported this week (not on-line) that on World Environment Day, a girls school replaced the school bell with snippets of wisdom from Al Gore.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 12 at 10:32 PM • permalinkBad novelist and freelance smoke bomb for the Kultursmog, James Wolcott, will no doubt face his hurricane with grim courage, his three chins flapping in the breeze like signal flags, his jowls unfurled, his homeric belly a veritable bulwark against the raging seas and unholy winds. Stand tall for us, Jim!
Swinging by the neck is too good for the likes of Wolcott. I’d prefer for him to be set on by a band of roving thugs looking for someone to beat down for no good reason. Picture Robert Fisk, except he doesn’t get away.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2007 06 12 at 10:40 PM • permalinkNew York has been hit by hurricanes before.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 13 at 10:55 AM • permalinkThanks for the link, Andrea. I’m surprised your article didn’t mention Hurricane Donna (1960) though that principally blasted Long Island rather than the city.
If Wolcott is feeling wind- and water-deprived, he can always drive out to Nassau or Suffolk County next time there’s a serious threat. Go to Bar Beach, or Jones Beach, and just stand out there and ask Mother Gaia to - well, whatever he wants her to do. I’m sure she’ll oblige.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2007 06 13 at 11:36 AM • permalink#3
The energy from burning bio-fuels, such as woodchip and straw, can be used to generate electricity.
Plants for bio-fuels use up carbon dioxide as they grow.
Wouldn’t burning bio-fuels generate large amounts of greenhouse gases as well? Like, possibly as much carbon dioxide as was absorbed by the plants as they were growing? I’m not a scientist (although that doesn’t seem to prevent others from weighing in to the debate). Does anyone here know the answer?
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When I hear scum such as Wolcott expounding on how he’d like to see us little people beaten and/or killed by “mother nature” for crimes of his own imagination, I get a deep down desire to see him and his ilk swinging by the neck from a tree in the park.
Turn about’s fair play, eh?