Not "hell or high water". Rising temperatures mean that deserts will get hotter and that sea levels will rise.

Global warming, however you wish to popularize a complex subject, has been cause for concern for many decades. Earth Day, started in 1970, was a wake-up call for world wide action: Think globally, act locally. Remember?

Didn't think so. The conservative news media has been underreporting this story, and right wing apologists have been vociferously denying that global warming is anything to worry about. They were wrong, and they're getting more ornery as they circle the wagons around their massive failure.

Allow me to mention again my brother's new book, Hell and High Water, which should allay all doubts except for the most extreme deniers. Climate Progress blog: http://climateprogress.org/ .

As the water rises, I hope for some mea culpas from those who were so wrong for so long. I'm not holding my breath. Your life will be affected by this issue, and some will die refusing to admit they were wrong.

One of the nasty tricks of the right-wing smear machine is to take a remark or a poorly chosen phrase and pretend that everyone they disagree with feels exactly that way all the time. It's a lie, and they know it. The shame of being conservative has never been greater.

If everyone who wished Clinton dead (which included a few Congressman and NRA types who "warned" against him visiting military bases) were held up as prime examples of conservative wish-fullfillment, our prisons would be overcrowded with treason convictions not drug busts.

I don't think Gore will run for office again, barring extraordinary circumstances. But if President Obama were to offer him the position of Administrator of the EPA, he should take it. Gore has dedicated his life to public service, and if the sphincter conservatives are going to (falsely) paint him as a one-issue candidate then he should take that issue and run with it.

There is time to prevent catastrophe due to global warming, but we've got to act soon. We'll be eight years behind schedule, due to Republican intransigence. There's a lot of work to be done, and Gore is just the man to spearhead the movement.

Digby makes a good point: The discourse was lowered many years ago by hate radio. Imus isn't even the worst example.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/hey-must-be-money-by-digby-so-i-make.html

After seeing Jabari Asim on The Colbert Report, I realized that even saying "The N Word" is distasteful and shouldn't be allowed in polite society. Therefore, I have started referring to Asim's book title as "The T Phrase".

He portrays us as easily-manipulated stooges on bended-knee to the President and his top aides.

If CBS White House Correspondent Mark Knoller has any doubts at all -- any doubts -- then I must mention the sad case of Jeff Gannon/James Guckert. For nearly two years, a gay prostitute mingled with people who were supposed to be the nation's top journalists. Knoller and company didn't say a word.

Did they know? If so, then "easily manipulated stooges on bended-knee" is too kind.

Were they unable to sniff out a poser in their ranks? If so, any reputable media outlet should fire them immediately.

After reading all the letters posted so far, everyone seems to be grinding their own axe -- again -- and missing the point of "Brothers". For this story, it doesn't matter what actually happened on Nov. 22nd, 1963, only that Robert Kennedy was consumed with finding out more.

This is a case study in a brother's love at the highest political level. The assassination itself is peripheral to the story.

The only thing we really know about the assassination, 40 years later, is that the Warren Commission Report did not answer all the questions to everyone's satisfaction, and that Warren Commission member Gerald Ford became our first unelected president, further complicating matters to wring the truth out of government archives.

The only thing we know about Robert Kennedy is that he went to his grave unsatisfied with the answers to his brother's assassination. That's the story here. Why isn't anyone talking about that?

Since the mid-80s, one of my standard shows on Shockwave Radio Theater is Folk Songs for Yuppies: TV Theme Songs. Ah, the glorious days of "The Beverly Hillbillies theme" and "The Gilligan's Island theme"... and many many great songs (as well as a bunch of dumb ones).

More recently, I've been able to do covers of tv theme songs. Desi Arnaz singing "I Love Lucy", Nichelle Nicole singing "Star Trek". The great parody of Led Zeppelin, "Gilligan's Island/Stairway". A Frank Sinatra impersonator doing "The Addams Family theme" ala "New York New York".

Oh, what the kids of today are missing.