The Daily Babble

Following up on the Power Shift conference on the Climate Crisis this past weekend, there's this report: Some 5500 mostly young delegates met outside Washington, which the environmental online magazine Grist calls "huge -- consider, by way of contrast, that this year's much publicized YearlyKos convention attracted just 1,400 attendees."

Further evidence of intense youth interest in their Climate Crisis future comes from the children of Republicans. Al Gore often says it should not be a partisan political issue, but it may be turning out to be a generational issue.

Meanwhile, after making brave noises against Bushite support for torture and the attorney general nominee's refusal to condemn the practice of induced temporary drowning, the elders of Congress shamefully approved his appointment. Why? I guess because Bush is so popular, and because America believes he's taking the country in the right direction, he has political power to overwhelm the opposition.

Meanwhile, Bushite plans to bomb Iran for Rudy go forward--ostensibly to prevent that nation from acquiring a nuclear weapon in years to come, while supporting the increasingly dictatorial regime in Pakistan, which has working nuclear weapons. And Rudy? Well, Mr. Law & Order's favorite police chief is being indicted. Maybe our big mistake was learning to trust anyone over 30.