Psst! Oklahoma! Your racism is showing.
Again.
And yes, I lived there a few years. In a fairly enlightened college town. And I still heard associate deans teaching foreign students how stupid foreigners were compared to Americans. And that’s actually a half-decent example of how folks behaved there.
Don’t start me on the ROTC marching with weapons through the (mostly international) family housing section after 9/11.
Yes, the greedy bastard speculators are driving up the cost of gas (no pun intended), but they aren’t the biggest problem. Not by a long shot.
We’re just simply running out of the stuff.
Comedy Central video link
Not that I expect Lou Dobbs or those other racists to apologize, but here’s the news about the occasional case of leprosy down south. Folks are getting it from armadillos.
Little armored rodents.
NOT illegals or Mexicans or brown people in general.
Like I said, the bigots will refuse to hear the truth. They’ll deny ever tying Latinos to leprosy. Anything to avoid taking responsibility for their hatred.
Scarlett Johansson
Mickey Rourke
Emily Blunt
Mary-Louise Parker
Anna Paquin
Liam Neeson
Twenty-five years later, some folks still live near Chernobyl. Here’s a small glimpse into how they go about it.
Chernobyl: a horrific disaster or an evolutionary test?
Frankly, humans don’t do well with radiation but nature once again found a way in the Ukrainian forests.
I was planning on doing a little gardening this year. Probably nothing massive but this info and the blog associated with it are interesting reading.
Also cool is the open source ecology project, which plans to create blueprints for machines that can sustain civilization. Frankly, that’s just genius and if we weren’t such a market-driven pack of vultures, this would have been around a long time ago.
It is always good to know how to make your own ethernet cables.
Somehow I rarely go a year without having to churn out a few of them.
See, this is what happens when you don’t waste time working on new boner pills.
Scientists have found out not only what makes beer turn bitter, but also how to keep the process at bay.
This is a glorious time to live in folks! Drink up!
Or don’t. It will be there fresh and ready when you are.