December 27, 2008
A guy went in front of Congress several months ago and said if we don't stop the coal burning plants it would be the apocalypse. Not long later some brand new coal burning plants were supposed to go into operation but I don't know what happened with them because I got distracted with other stories. Pretty much it's the apocalypse all over and coal is just a small part of it and I was directing my attention to gasoline, but I'll try to get back on track. Coal is what bad children get for Christmas, everyone knows that right?

But this guy said the only reason he wasn't chaining himself to the doors of newly built coal burning plants was because he was still needed as a scientist and as someone respectable enough to be able to go to Congress and explain how the apocalypse works.

So who got coal for Christmas this year? You see Knoxville recently? This is what 5.4 million pounds of coal sludge looks like:


So that was Monday. But then last night, Obama was without electricity for 11 hours when the coal-powered electric grid went down on Oahu due to massive lightning storm. They hurried to install three new generators and wound up rejecting a fourth, and Ban Labolt says he spent the night in the dark on purpose. My experience with electrical blackouts is pretty specific, and in circumstances like these they're supposed to imply a specific message but I wasn't sure how that applied to Obama. I'm supposed to be able to explain these things, and I was halfway through The Day The Earth Stood Still this afternoon and realized my friend was right this morning, it's all about the coal, the lightning was pretty pissed off about the coal.

They're replaying the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony on NBC at the moment and it's funny in hindsight to see Bush and Putin in the stands conferring and totally ignoring the show, because you know, those pesky Georgians!

Okay pay no attention to this, the whole problem is friggin Space Ghost, which is not a problem, it's all really funny actually.