"It's a very strange climate," Johan Stenebo, the former employee, told me.
Last March, Kendrick Lamar discussed his own experience of this strange climate in an interview with MTV, explaining how, during the recording of To Pimp a Butterfly he had suicidal thoughts.
This is a strange climate in which to create — and then augment, via guest-worker programs — a permanent tier of explicitly second-class, mostly low-skilled residents, deliberately curtail their political leverage and then ask low-wage native workers to compete with them for jobs.
And it's a particularly strange climate for a Republican Party struggling to shed its "party of the rich" label to identify with such a policy, and give up one of the few issues where it has some credibility with working-class voters.
However, the desire to keep everybody happy - from paymasters to reviewers, from the conservative and wealthy to the modish and wealthy - has created a strange climate of catch-all, in which it is sometimes difficult to understand whether we are being offered vision, excellence, audience-pleasers, or a competition for who can produce the glossiest international brochure.
"We think it's fantastic sending them home, but they probably think 'what the hell, strange noises, strange climate'.
This was a strange emotional climate to live in – like blazing sunshine with an icy wind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, on a lecture tour in 1847, recorded the "strange drizzling climate, raining, I should think, a little in every day since I was in England".
With record-breaking temperatures occurring seemingly every summer and winters becoming harsher across the globe, it seems strange that climate change skepticism persists.
@@ The Madhouse Effect - Enjoy the cartoons as you learn about the science, policy and solutions of climate change - and the strange pathology of climate denial.
