Something to Know - 29 June

1.  Much attention has been given to the decisions of the Supreme Court this past week.  Here, we have an analysis of the strategy that Chief Justice Roberts has been laying out as to how he is manipulating the court to his vision of its purpose:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/us/politics/roberts-plays-a-long-game.html?emc=eta1

2.  The latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine has an interesting article which focuses attention on the rising tides and ocean level and the city of Miami.  Of course this is all related to the melting ice sheets and glaciers, which is directly related to climate change and global warming, which is a result of a planet that is creating more greenhouse gases.  This is all part of our bombastic consumption of fossil fuels.  But, who is paying attention?:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-the-city-of-miami-is-doomed-to-drown-20130620

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Juan

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.
-- Mark Twain