Us, 2012.
(about Medusa)
Michael Brown, Horse Wrangler
The horse wrangler who managed FEMA under Bush is criticizing Obama for responding “too quickly.”
Romney, in the meantime, is ignoring all comments or requests for clarifications on his previous comments that he would get rid of FEMA.
Here’s a good article explaining why disasters, and disaster relief, are inherently political.
Bill McKibben’s NYC
“New York is as beautiful and diverse and glorious as an old-growth forest. It’s as grand, in its unplanned tumble, as anything ever devised by man or nature. And now, I fear its roots are being severed.” – Climate change journalist Bill McKibben, writing for the Guardian.
Today
Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Obama #7: The Supremes
No, not those Supremet: Obama gets to pick the next Supreme Court Justices, which hold the fate of not just Roe v. Wade in their hands, but many other things as well.
My City #Sandy
Chilling.
911 is receiving 20k calls an hour; normal is 2k/hr.
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel is flooded.
The Gowanus Canal flooded its banks (that’s a Superfund site, folks, hugely toxic).
Much of Manhattan has no power. More than a quarter of a million people don’t.
The Carousel in DUMBO was breached.
Long Island is under several feet of water, as is the Jersey Shore. My niece reports 42″ on the ground floor of my sister’s house in Bellmore.
Five people have already died.
The NYC Subways may be closed for a week or longer; there’s 4′ of sea water in the tunnels.
On the other side of the world, a storm has killed 30 people in Viet Nam and the Philippines.
People gathered in Times Square with a massive sign that said END CLIMATE SILENCE.
Mayor Bloomberg’s Spanish is really, really terrible.
Love to you all on the East Coast. Stay safe.
Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Obama #8: This Is What A Feminist Looks Like
But more importantly, what a feminist acts like: Obama supports women’s right to choose, passed The Lily Ledbetter Act (which allows women to correct pay inequity), and thinks women should make choices about their own bodies.
Sandy
Stay safe, East Coast. Please do all report in as often as possible, please.
The NYT is posting a new photo every minute.
The most extraordinary description of this storm – from a weatherman who claims not to be prone to hyperbole – is here.
There’s this messed up news about the possibility of the Gowanus Canal flooding into Brooklyn.
You can even watch various live feeds in & around NYC.
And NCTE has put out a great guide (pdf) for trans people in the midst of these kinds of storms – basic information on emergency shelters, contact numbers, and lists of supplies that wouldn’t be on most guides for hurricane preparedness.
Love to all my friends & family on the East Coast. I hope this doesn’t suck half so much as it sounds like it’s going to.
Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Obama #9: This.
Halloween: Keep Your Tits In
Kind of awful in an excellent way.
That said, sexy costumes are great when they make sense. When they’re just messed up, objectifying versions of men’s costumes, they’re just stupid. At the very least, throw in some scary or gruesome, ladies: sexy zombie nurse is way better than way overdone sexy nurse. Or really push it, & shoot straight to enema nurse.
Happy Halloween!
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