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This Is a Joke, Right
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This is a joke, right? I mean, this can’t be serious. Is Joe Wurzelbacher now officially going by “Joe the Plumber”, like the Iron Sheik or some other WWF character?
No wonder conservatism has lost its way. It’s become the political philosophy of idiots and charlatans..
This can’t be serious. Joe the fucking [...]
John Cornyn is an Idiot. But I Repeat Myself.
For a guy who likes to dress up like a cowboy and pretend he’s some champion of the common man, John Cornyn doesn’t know shit about agriculture.
Here the big lunkhead decries a $150 million line item for honeybee insurance for farmers, displaying the characteristic ignorance of the Texas Republican party (double warning: pdf, and incredibly [...]
Cannibal Cafe
Chi Pig with Hellbent Cuntry: “Cannibal Cafe” (SNFU)
Come with me, I’m on my way
To the Cannibal Cafe
Won’t you come to the only place
Where you can be the “Special Of The Day”?
It’s eating itself:
The social conservatives and moderates who together boosted the Republican Party to dominance have begun a tense battle over the future of the [...]
Humans Are Like Yeast, Chesapeake Edition
As any homebrewer knows, yeast eats sugar and excretes carbon dioxide and alcohol. Then the yeast dies, essentially drowning in its own shit.
Human beings have a similar tendency, and you can see it at work in Maryland, where the crabbing industry may be dead for good:
Crabs have thrived in the bottom muck of the Chesapeake [...]
We Are SO Going to Die
North Pole Could be Ice-Free This Summer
There is no land at the North Pole, but as long as anyone has looked, it has remained a giant block of ice year-round. Scientists have been watching Arctic sea ice melt more and more each year. But each summer in recent years, the amount of ice [...]
Worried? Who’s Worried?
Generation X glum on retirement prospects: survey:
More than two-thirds of Americans aged 27 to 42 don’t think they will ever be able to stop working, according to a survey published jointly on Monday by Scottrade and BetterInvesting.
In contrast, 64 percent of respondents aged 55 to 64 said they could retire and not worry, even though [...]
Water, Water. Where?
US Could See Water Shortage
When people talk about the problems associated with global warming, the conversation tends to focus on stronger storms, rising sea levels, and the loss of coastal cities. But one problem that seems to me to get short shrift is the impact on our water supply.
When weather patterns change in such [...]
Hitting the Fan
Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years
The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low, scientists said last night. Experts said they were “stunned” by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as [...]
Bees: Closer to Home
The disappearance of the bees hits New Jersey
Jean-Claude Tassot felt the sunshine spilling over his shoulders. It was unseasonably warm for January — a good day, he decided, to check his honeybees. So Tassot jumped in his truck and rumbled over the back roads of Morris County to the first of the eight farms where [...]
Getting What We Deserve
In the past few days, I’ve seen a few more articles on the rapidly disappearing bee population.
From a kos diary:
Albert Einstein once predicted that if bees were to disappear, man would follow only a few years later.
That hypothesis could soon be put to the test.
Now in Spain, hundreds of thousands of colonies have been lost [...]
