So I was listening to this Easterbrook lecture, and he was talking about global warming and what it might mean to agriculture, and he said "All the high latitude land is in the Northern hemisphere"...

And I was all, like, "C'mon... Not ALL of it."

But it turns out that it is.

If global warming is worth giving your thought to, and worth setting policies for --and I'm not at all sure that it is-- but if it is, then the vast, vast majority of impacts will be up here.

Two points.

First, if you TRULY BELIEVE we need to feel stress about this, you can help future generations by investing in profitable ventures, not through new government GW policies.

Second, even if the freakiest warming scenarios come to pass, most of Russia and her neighbors will still be unsuitable for the most productive agriculture... Their soil and climate has more problems than simple temperature.

Invest accordingly.

Via my niece. I LOL'd on #8 in particular, but there were a few knee-slappers.

http://www.viralnova.com/intelligent-jokes/

@FLBeachMom: Via my niece. I LOL'd on #8 in particular, but there were a few knee-slappers.

I didn't get #5 for a while, but it finally dawned on me. I'd be truly humbled and grateful if somebody explained #14.

@Old RPM Daddy

I didn't get #14 initially either because I thought the first statement was that my friend asked me to explain what irony meant.

Rather than my friend telling my *I* do not understand irony. And then I say something is ironic that totally isn't.

http://youtu.be/ck14LKBI9GM

Stripper deer, an octopus juicing oranges off her titties, semi-Latin music promoting a soda.

@Kastrina: Oh, okay. I read a few of those out to the guy in the office next to mine. He raspberried all of them.

Hey, here's something: Apparently, the First District Court of Appeals doesn't think that the average shoolyard fight requires the district attorney's attention. A court telling law enforcement to dial it back a little? Hooda thunk?

" I read a few of those out to the guy in the office next to mine. He raspberried all of them."

I know that jerk. Never tells a joke and he slams anyone who does, right?

Yeah, we don't hang out much any more.

yes, what Katrina explained (at least I think so).

And #5 took me forever to figure out, too. But that just made it funnier.

http://i.imgur.com/40SmRX1.jpg

Fire and Ice!

> And #5 took me forever to figure out, too.
> But that just made it funnier.

I'm glad to hear this, and looking forward to The Moment. I'll be in touch.

Also #14. Gonna be a difficult weekend here.

Hey! #5 is MY theme song (at least, before I got married!)

o.O

I thought 20 was the funniest, but then I am partial to fractals

http://lujlp1.deviantart.com/

Guess there were no jay-walkers around to arrest.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/03/one-armed-cyclist-fined_n_5553876.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX93pak-Gl4&feature=youtu.be

What's ironic about a bus stop?

What RPM said.

Irony and inanity aren't the same thing, otherwise Wes Anderson films would be worth watching.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/07/03/hobby-lobby-fallout-catholic-soy-milk-mogul-wont-cover-drugs-that-prevent-procreation/