Scenes From a Multiverse – by Jonathan Rosenberg
More political correctness. It must be in the air or something. Like the last one, this one is from another web cartoon — Scenes From a Multiverse.
Again, go see the whole cartoon. It’s good.
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Wondermark – An Illustrated Jocularity – by David Malki
I have little patience for political correctness. Whether it’s the phrase itself or the people who use it, my patience evaporates immediately. Political correctness was invented for the purpose of mockery. The only people who sincerely use the phrase are the ones who are opposed to it. They seem to think that if they accuse others of political correctness, then they are free to be rude. Like garlic for vampires, they think it will save them from that dreadful condition of having to be considerate. Beyond the merely cynical motive of stifling conversation, some of them actually believe that saying it rehabilitates them. It is a mantra for bigots.
I regret the exhaustion of my patience, because it means that I can’t enjoy the times that the phrase is used ironically, or in satire. The overuse of it by moral shirkers has ruined it for me. Political correctness has been ruined by the very people who invented it.
Go and see the full Wondermark cartoon. It’s good.
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Credit Daniel Simpson cc-by – tap for original
Cloud of the Day – Valley Cloud
In my valley winters are often visited by a phenomenon called valley cloud. Those days are clear and sunny, except in the valleys. If you’re up on the slopes you’re likely to see ski bunnies in bikinis. But down in the valley the Sun is blocked by a layer of valley cloud.
Credit J.M.Garg cc-by-sa – tap for original
Those of us who grew up here don’t mind it. That low cloud is kind of like a snoozy blanket, and we snuggle in. That’s winter. We’re used to it. But people who move here from away, especially from the Prairies, don’t like it so much. On the Prairies it might get bone-cracking cold, but the sky is bright blue and the horizon meets it out near infinity. It’s bad enough that the hills make them feel hemmed in, but now this persistent cloud is blocking the sky and dimming the light. It’s no wonder they look haunted.
Valley cloud develops under a stalled upper ridge of high pressure. Instead of moving generally eastward, as systems tend to do, it sits there, pressing down on the air below. Now a temperature inversion forms, with warmer air over cooler air. A stationary situation with little wind and no convection means the cool, moist air is trapped under the warmer, drier air. There will be condensation in the valleys, resulting in fog or cloud. As fog can be thought of as cloud in contact with the ground, I like to think of valley cloud as fog up in the air.
Photo by Jerry3904 – Processing by Utopia
One thing about valley cloud: you can always get above it on the ski hill. Put on a bikini, even.
Credit Don Hunt
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ISBN 978-0-9919532-0-2
