Drew six hours closer to death by watching two boring college football games. Saw a cartoon once, a drawing of a graveyard, lots of tombstones with writing, only one of which is legible in the foreground: "Here lies George. He watched lots of sports on TV."
Scrolling around on my phone during the commercials, I see that a year ago our president was making good use of his time, too:
In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017
Out of curiosity, I checked the weather forecast for Monday in Washington, D.C.: rainy, with a high of 50, which would be six degrees warmer than usual for December 31. Forecast here; normal highs and lows for D.C. in the month of December, by day, here. Probably explains why this year he's forsworn the weather and is instead blaming Democrats for the government shutdown and the two kids who've recently died while in the custody of our border patrol.
Not that it would mean much for the theory of anthropogenic global warming if it was going to be cold again along the eastern seaboard this New Year's.
Journalist: Going back to 1880, the four hottest years on record are the four most recent, and the ten hottest are all within the last twenty.
Trump: Wrong! I was just outside and it's quite chilly.
Journalist: [checks notes, flips pages more and more rapidly as picture fades]
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