http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060729/ap_on_re_us/northern_plains_drought_5
More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
I love that, with news like this, the flakiest of Christian Republicans will claim that this is God’s vengeance on the US for homosexuals. After all, it couldn’t possibly be the result of global warming and disastrous environmental policies!