The French Connection

What is the nexus between climate change and terrorism? Bernie Sanders, Barry Soetoro, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and most of the rest of the loopy liberals have either said that global warming (aka, climate change) causes terrorism or that it is a larger threat to our civilization than terrorism. Have I lost my way in the world and ended up in some lunatic asylum ... but for the life of me these statements make absolutely no sense to me. And, for some reason, when they are uttered, nobody follows up with a request for further explanation of what is the connection. I suppose that this is so because there cannot be any further explanation.

Now Barry Soetoro and John Kerry are about to travel to Paris for the Global Climate Conference where over 4,000 wild-eyed environmentalists from around the world will spend their taxpayers' good money on five-star hotels, fine wine and lots of expensive food whilst nodding in belly-rubbing agreement with oodles more of such inane mutterings. Each of these dingbats will try to outdo each other with weirder and stupider consequences caused by minute increased traces of carbon dioxide. That is, of course, assuming that the terrorist threats in Paris have subsided.

Ah, I just had a thought ... perhaps the connection between global warming and terrorism is ... PARIS!

See also: Climate Depot.

Nexus Perplexus

A nexus is a single connection between things, facts or ideas.  A plexus is multiple ordered connections (often biological.)  We are living in a plexus world ... information-exchange connections are multiplying at a dizzying pace spawned mostly by the Internet and social-networking plexuses (plexi).  Two people can connect in only one way.  Three people can connect in three ways, but four people can connect in six ways ... and five people, in ten ways.  So how many ways can six billion people connect?  The answer is a number larger than all the grains of sand in all the beaches in the world.  This would be best called a "perplexus" as it is what the world seems to be rapidly approaching.  Facebook  and other social-networking sites could not build computer farms large enough to accommodate such an ultimate level of connectivity.

Previous information-exchange models went through hubs (newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations) which dramatically reduced the number of connections to manageable levels ... but gave these hubs an enormous say in setting the information-exchange agenda.  Now, with the diminishing power of these former hubs, we are faced with the ironic consequences of what would be a totally "democratic" information-exchange world ... and that would be absolute chaos.  We have already witnessed precursors of such a new society in the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the political fibrillation over how Western societies are to confront their current debt crises.  The world is trapped in an information maze with little understanding as to how to extract ourselves.  But extract ourselves we will ... as we always have.  But I, personally, am somewhat worried about what socities and information-exchange constructs will arise to deal with this new world order. 

Will they be benign or malignant?  (Or, more likely, just another way of promoting Lady Gaga?)