This afternoon, when I was doing the back and forth with you on torture (damn that word), I was titling my drafts "Squeaky Torture". That sounds bad, but it was just short-hand so I could quickly identify that a particular draft was an exchange with you on the subject at hand. Honestly!

There are several major sources of methane: rice paddies (methane-producing bacteria thrive in the underwater environment), swamps and wetlands (ditto), mining and oil drilling, landfills, termites (although there's still some controversy on this one), "biomass burning" (notably in the Amazon rain forest), and animals.

Ninety percent of animal methane is produced by ruminants (i.e., cud-chewers).

These include sheep, goats, camels, water buffalo, and so on, but most of all cattle, of which the world has an estimated 1.2 billion.

Ruminants eat hay and grass and stuff containing cellulose, which can be digested only by special microbes that, to minimize commuting problems, live in the ruminants' guts.

Unfortunately, the microbes tend to make a mess, and about 6 or 7 percent of what they eat winds up as methane.

Thus the problem.

Lying at worst, or at best having an eccentric position reeking of ODS and then repeating the same quote ad nauseum,  is a far cry from posting new petitions in the hope of getting our politicians to end the absurd war on drugs.

Last time I looked that is a big concern for TL. ODS is not supported as far as I know by TL.

As far as I know this is the first mention of the facebook petition.

It's amazing to realize the piece was cobbled together from this and that, isolated bits he had here and there, cut from this piece, written for that occasion, etc., that he pasted together.

I've sung I think four different (non-staged) productions of it and therefore heard it dozens of times and never found a moment's tedium or over-familiarity.

We're finally getting some of the Met's HD theater broadcasts here in Vermont this year, but not all of them and not even starting until next month. I'm most interested in the stuff that's off the beaten path-- the John Adams, the Berlioz and the like-- but so far, all we've got scheduled here are the bel canto-type operas, which I have zero interest in unless there's a singer I'm keenly interested in hearing.

I am just as entitled to my opinion of what chattering is as you are. A one note song from a die hard PUMA is a waste of bandwidth imo. Obviously that is the kind of chatter that turns you on, so be it.

Also the dishonest move by posting an antique BTD post is both counterproductive. BTD held Obama's feet to the fire and got results.

John Brennan is behind this and I am actually appalled to learn that he has anything to do with the transition.
He is completely unacceptable and my hope is that he is disavowed immediately. It is why I write this provocative post.

In case you missed Brennan is no longer involved with the transition, and he was disavowed as BTD had hoped.