I'm sorry. I've been lurking since the election, and now the recommended list is alien to me.
Tax cuts.
Unemployment insurance.
Wikileaks.
These matter today, and they'll matter tomorrow, but I tend to take a long view: what will matter in 2020? what will matter in 2100?
Simply put, I wish that I could say yes ... 
Let me be clear, despite some tremendous appointments and some great actions, the Administration has fallen short on too many issues. In the face of the devastating situation when he entered office and the Republican "Just Say No" to everything style, the actual achievements are not to be discounted.
If, come next Wednesday, the Republicans take the House (and, even worse, the Senate) the progress since the 2008 election will screech to a halt in Washington -- on issue, after issue, after issue.
FOR ACTION: Act Blue for Climate Heroes
I made mah hooman git off her behind an GOTV, so I haz to rite a diary an watch teh kidz. Lucky 4 u, I haz lolz 2 hooman tranzlator engine. I know humanz r not bright enough 2 understand teh subtlety ov lolz, so I postd teh convertd diary below.
Kitteh iz far 2 Zen 2 be botherd wif ur linguistic inadequaciez.
A number of people myself included were called conspiracy theorists [by a very few here] in the MSM, because we claimed that the governments fairytale that the oil had just up and went was just so much bullpucky.
Well it looks like the the governments own agency is wearing my tin foil hat.
Bill Lehr, a senior scientist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) departed from an official report from two weeks ago which suggested the majority of the oil had been captured or broken down.
"I would say most of that is still in the environment," Lehr, the lead author of the report, told the house energy and commerce committee.
It really doesn't take that much intelligence to grasp that a million tons of oil mixed with a previously banned dispersant does not just up and evaporate. I'll be generous and call it wishful thinking, but I will say it is no wonder science is taking a hit when plain bad science is applauded because it fits with the need.
Sadly, the conventional wisdom seems to be that action on climate change is a political loser. According to the Washington Post, Rust Belt House Democrats who voted for the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy & Security (ACES) bill that passed in 2009 feel abandoned by the White House's inability (or unwillingness) to force Senate action. And, many Democratic Representatives see this vote as a noose around their neck heading into the mid-terms like the Btu tax disaster was in 1994.
While there were (as this author would be glad to tell you in a different post) serious problems with ACES and it could have been (MUCH) better, this seems to be a case where the conventional wisdom is fostering a new reality rather reflecting reality.
I am frustrated. And depressed. First of all, the oil spill is just overwhelming. Everything about it. The amount of marine life killed, the wetlands destroyed, and then all of the extra disaster on top of the original disaster. As if all of the oil spilling into the Gulf wasn't bad enough, then they had to go dump in a bunch of toxic dispersants. And when the EPA told them to stop using Corexit, BP basically gave the EPA a middle finger and kept on doing it. Then there's the endangered sea turtles burned, the clean-up workers denied the ability to wear protective gear, and the media kept away from the clean-up, the wimpy six-month moratorium that should have been longer in the first place, and then even THAT getting turned over by a judge who gets his bread buttered by the oil industry.
But that is just the start.
Oh and my actual title is We Are Fucked but the Swearing Police made me change it.
We can argue all we want about why we fight but ultimately the issue comes down to resources and what is at stake it is the survival of us as a species and our place in the world.
Our hubris as a species has not only put us in peril but has systematically wiped out species after species due to habitat loss from our encroachment on their space because we just need more.
Deforestation, desertification and urban sprawl is snatching up vital space and pushing out species at an alarming rate.
