USAToday.com headline: "Earth just had its 400th straight warmer-than-average month thanks to global warming."
Anybody else see something other than an application of the scientific method here?
Or how about this one from later in the day: "ICE arresting more non-criminal undocumented immigrants."
AKA illegal immigrants, since not being either a citizen or having documents is illegal. Which is to say to be undocumented is criminal. "non-criminal undocumented immigrants" is an oxymoron.
Note: do NOT infer from that comment anything about my view on the issue of undocumented immigrants. It's just an observation about the bogocity of so much contemporary news coverage.
On that note, I had the quarterly phone conversation with our financial advisor. Chad is very good, a brother in Christ, and we trust him completely. Since we moved to OR he calls us once every three months to go over our investment strategy and any changes he's making.
In that conversation we looked at a graph (he always sends an email with lots of info that we then review) that, among other things, showed stock market swings over the last decade and how they predict future movements. He commented that last year the media was in a panic over "the largest single-day drop in stock market history."
That was a true statement IF you're looking at the point drop. If you look at that day's drop as a percentage of the whole it didn't even rank in the top 50 drops in the history of the market.
His point: the media sells stories that are dramatic and skewing the facts to increase drama is their stock-in-trade. Don't believe everything you hear.
On NBCNews.com: "Child "torture" case spotlights home schooling oversight." Sure, there's a clear connection between those two cruel and repugnant parents of 10 and home schooling.
They watch Dancing With the Stars and eat Oreos. Are those also now risk indicators?
Pam sent me a message a bit ago that her plane out of SFO is delayed arriving from L.A. and may be 15-20 minutes late getting into Eugene. No big deal. I got everything done I wanted to before her return (which is why I'm writing this post). And a few extra things. Which she doesn't know about. And which she may or may not like.
Because I pretty much beat that railing to smithereens to get it out I'm hoping she likes that it's gone.
The drywall is taped, the bathroom window trimmed out and caulked, the front porch cleaned, and the kitchen floor vacuumed and mopped. Yeah, I'm ready for Pam to be home in more ways than one.
We're now one week away from Sundae's kidding. I asked Marta what I should do on her due date. I don't see myself sitting in the barn all day but I should be in attendance when she begins labor in case she needs help. (Lord, please let her do this without intervention 'cause I'm pretty much clueless.) Marta gave me some signs to look for - a change in her shape that indicates one of the kids has dropped into the birth canal, a hardened udder, and/or discharge. "By the time she starts bellowing she's in labor."
Marta also suggested I put her in the birthing section of the barn overnight beginning this weekend so she gets used to it and then leave her in there the day she's due (next Thursday). Unless, that is, she shows signs before that.
I'll feel her udder but I know from watching Marta do that last time that Sundae hates to have her udder touched.
I'm as nervous as a father-to-be.
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