Montgomery County, MD Green Party Blog

Normally, I don’t give a damn about entertainers; but this article just appealed to me.  Here’s a guy who is — evidently — donating his time and prestige to help a classical English theater garner attention for its production.

The 36-year-old star, known for Hollywood roles such as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars films, will earn $790 a week _ standard minimum wage for actors in Britain _ playing Shakespeare’s arch villain Iago in “Othello,” Donmar Warehouse spokeswoman Kate Morley said Saturday.

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/12/AR2007051200423.html?hpid=entnews

Of course, the right wing nuts will say that all we have to do is beef up our air conditioning…

Previous and widely used global warming computer estimates predict too many rainy days, the study says. Because drier weather is hotter, they underestimate how warm it will be east of the Mississippi River, said atmospheric scientists Barry Lynn and Leonard Druyan of Columbia University and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

 http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/11/hoteast_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070511101500