More news for today.
'"I am troubled sometimes by the misogyny and materialism of a lot of rap lyrics," he said, "but I think the genius of the art form has shifted the culture and helped to desegregate music."

'He said hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and rappers Jay-Z and Ludacris were "great talents and great businessmen."

'"It would be nice if I could have my daughters listen to their music without me worrying that they were getting bad images of themselves," he added.'

YES! This pleases me, in more ways than I know how to precisely calculate...

The variables and shifts capable, from that simple a statement... I want to see this everywhere.

'Global Warming Called Security Threat'

'For the second time in a month, private consultants to the government are warning that human-driven warming of the climate poses risks to the national security of the United States.

'A report, scheduled to be published on Monday but distributed to some reporters yesterday, said issues usually associated with the environment — like rising ocean levels, droughts and violent weather caused by global warming — were also national security concerns.

'“Unlike the problems that we are used to dealing with, these will come upon us extremely slowly, but come they will, and they will be grinding and inexorable,” Richard J. Truly, a retired United States Navy vice admiral and former NASA administrator, said in the report.

'The effects of global warming, the study said, could lead to large-scale migrations, increased border tensions, the spread of disease and conflicts over food and water. All could lead to direct involvement by the United States military.'

As I said to my cousin, yesterday, you have to put these things in terms that people can understand; put it to them in a way that shows them how it affects them, right now. This is a report that people have been needing for many many years, but the public intersection only recently became probable enough to spill over into actuality.

It's frustrating, yes, but better late than never, yes?

Number of Rich people is rising.

So is the number of poor people.

Middle class is disappearing, across the world.

It can't all be good news, right? But we can use the good to fix the bad.

Time for the Colbert Report.