Forecast: Blizzard

Never seen this one before on the Weather.com:

Euro Freeze, Global Weirding?

Meteorologists say the cold weather is caused by a negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation, which means that cold Arctic air is flowing into southern latitudes that are normally much warmer.

This is the explanation for the recent European freezing weather and snow as mentioned in CNN. Sounds awfully like what scientists said would happen through global warming, or as Thomas Friedman called it, global weirding. Freaky. This is record-breaking weather over there, and hopefully is not a harbinger of things to come.

What kind of politician brings eggs and smoke bombs to Parliament?

Fist fights break out in Ukraine between lawmakers: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/27/ukraine.punchup/index.html?hpt=C2

Possible Whitney Sighting

This was posted by a former co-worker in Madison. Could it have been the elusive Whitnius Bizarricus? If only it had been caught on film...