Polka Dot Gallows today, from the LA Times, forsooth.
So. El Niño is here- and on track to be the most intense on record, actually. Which means?
Floods, mudslides, drought and crop failure in Africa and other places;
11 million children in immediate need of food.
But hey! Really great surf in California!
Oh, and beach communities battered into oblivion.
Always look on the bright side!
And in that vein; isn't it great how our ability to focus on the utterly trivial is being honed into perfection by our need to ignore reality - at any cost?
Progress!