The Portland masseuse/Al Gore story gets the TV treatment on 'The Good Wife' | OregonLive.com

On Tuesday night's episode, the lawyers at the Chicago firm where protagonist Alicia (Julianna Margulies) works grappled with the decision whether or not to take the case of a massage therapist who shows up, alleging she was sexually assaulted by a Nobel Prize winner during a massage appointment at a high-end hotel.

Ignoring the Planet Won’t Fix It - NYTimes.com

The recent study concluded that most of the western two-thirds of the United States will be significantly drier by the 2030s, and that large parts of the nation may face an increasing risk of extreme drought. This is not about melting ice caps; it’s about Dust Bowl-style drought within two decades.
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When Barack Obama won the nomination, he said his election to the presidency would be historic on two issues: health care and climate change, a point when “the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Two years later, you can barely find the phrase “climate change” on the Web sites of Democrats running for office, and for Republicans it has become an item of faith to be a skeptic on the science and a critic of cap-and-trade legislation meant to limit carbon emissions.

But if my iPhone charger is going to be blamed for the next Dust-Bowl style drought, what gets the blame for the last one?