Pie charts are supposed to add up to 100%. Not with Fox News. They add up to 193%.

Accuracy has never been their strong suite.

posted by lazlow at 1:10 PM  on Saturday, November 28, 2009

The conservoweboconspirosphere this week is all wound up about hacked emails that purport to prove that scientists are part of a vast conspiracy to convince us the earth is warming.

Scientists.

You know, the people that invented the computer, the rocket engine, the iphone, GPS, roller coasters, the Internet and artificial hearts. They are part of a CONSPIRACY!!!

They will sit around in their sciencey clothes and cackle with glee as they pull a big one on the world! "HA HA HA YOU STUPID MORONS! WE'RE SCIENTISTS! NOW YOU HAVE TO DRIVE SISSY ELECTRIC CARS CAUSE WE TOTALLY SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF YOU!

HA! YOU ALL LOOK SO GAY WITH YOUR SOLAR PANELS!

Members of Congress, especially whores like Sen. James Inhofe who has been deep throating oil company campaign money, are trumpeting the lines their pimps have been providing them, furthering their ridiculous line of reasoning that 1. Scientists are idiots or 2. Scientists are trying to fool us.

The rest of the first world(which by the way has universal health insurance) has accepted that climate change is real and that we need to do something about it. Here in the United States people look like babies throwing tantrums cause they're scared of change.

It's really simple actually. If you put a bunch of people in a room, pretty soon it gets hot and stuffy. If everyone in a football dome holds up a lighter, eventually it will get really hot in there. Welcome to the concept that billions of people on the earth burning shit makes it get hot. Not a hard concept to grasp.

And why would anyone want to spend their life's work proving that we're fucked? "Hey guys, I was right, i've done 30 years of climate research, and we're fucked. Isn't that awesome?"

Nobody seems to explain what rationale or motive there would be for scientists to hoodwink everyone on the planet. There isn't profit to be made. Strangely, or not so strangely, the ones spreading the most amount of disinformation about global warming are the ones making billions burning fossil fuels.

posted by lazlow at 1:38 PM  on Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The Grand Theft Auto Episodes from Liberty City Radio Tour was a whirlwind. Big up to the Hot Boyz on Power 92 in Chicago and Chuy Gomez on KMEL in San Francisco as some standouts. All the stations were amazing. Couzin Ed was on a tour as well. Between us, we hit a bunch of stations in the US and UK - chilling with some radio shows and letting them get their hands on the game . Ed and I both directed talent for the game - and it was great working with the brilliant creative team at Rockstar North and New York to make the game happen. Response has been amazing. People love it.

Highlights from the tour include

- hanging out of a sunroof loaded in Boston
- shooting a PS-90 at a gun range in Vegas
- standing on the street in London drinking with soccer hooligans after an interview with the BBC
- Driving across Texas due to a canceled flight and visiting a truck stop with THE LARGEST BEEF/ELK/BUFFALO/ENDANGERED SPECIES JERKY DISPLAY IN THE WORLD

I'm glad to be home to blankly stare at a pile of laundry and a pile of receipts with titles like "Machine Gun Rental" and "Airport Bar" and try to piece together the last few weeks. Airport food is awesome. I had it daily, as we flew to a different city every day. And once you go through airport security every day for 3 weeks it becomes comical. They've somehow simultaniously recruited kids from the ghetto and retirees to do security. The geriatrics hold up the xbox and look at it like it's a nuke. The steet kids in ill-fitting Homeland Security outfits want cheat codes for GTA. It's hysterical.

Hope you dig Grand Theft Auto Episodes from Liberty City - on disc for XBOX.

posted by lazlow at 10:22 PM  on Tuesday, November 10, 2009