We all know President Donald Trump lies all the time.  Remember how he insisted that the U.S. obliterated Iranian nuclear facilities?  If you missed that exaggeration,  watch this.   Actually, he was partly right this time.  We did destroy one of the three sites.   As confirmed by his Administration this morning, though, the other two should be able to resume nuclear enrichment in next several months .  The Fordo site to the left and Isfahan below. It was only earlier this month that I featured Dr. Demento, and mentioned how he was mostly responsible for making Weird Al Yankovic popular in 1976.  I did not realize that Weird Al was still active, and performed this past weekend for his first time at the Madison Square Garden, which has an audience capacity of 19,500.   This one and done show sold out . Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born in Downey, California on 23October1959.  He is thus 65-years old.   Started kindergar...

Nearly 24 years ago, NASA researcher James Hansen said:   The greenhouse effect had been detected.  And it is changing our climate now .  It was at that time the hottest 12-month period scientists had ever seen. Returning to the present, 2021 was only the fifth or sixth hottest year, even though July was the hottest month humanity has recorded.   Further, the seven hottest years on record have happened in the last seven years. Further : Since 1981, average global temperatures have increased at a rate of about 0.18 degrees Celsius (0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade. In the same period, the warming of oceans — which have absorbed about 90 percent of the additional heat trapped by human carbon pollution — has gotten eight times faster. Finally : The United States endured at least   20 weather disasters costing $1 billion or more   last year, the second most on record, NOAA announced this week. Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and floods — almost al...