Daily Archives: April 5, 2011

Why are bananas radioactive?

Bananas are actually radioactive. I remember learning this is school but it’s a fun article to read in these days where we in the US are more scared of radioactivity than the Japanese who a) HAVE been nuke bombed, and b) HAVE a nuke plant in trouble.

Are they freaking out? Well, maybe a little, but since their culture runs on stoic adult behavior and science instead of reality show hysterics and “intelligent design” they actually have a handle on things.

Incidentally, don’t tell Republicans about this thing about bananas. Between their end times hysteria and their hatred of all things brown people grow (and eat, and make, and reproduce) they’ll ban the fruit in mere moments.

Other Countries Pay Their Teachers More. And We Want To Start Paying Ours Less? | The New Republic

Compared to the civilized world – which we are moving away from in alarming ways – we don’t pay our teaches enough. Nor do we give them the proper respect. Nor do we try to recruit the best people for the job.

And now we’ve got Republicans trying to punish those who do the job despite the low level of respect for the work they do? I may be unemployed but I’m kind of glad I got out of the field.

Death By a Single GOP Cut? | Mother Jones

Republicans are so convinced that spending our tax dollars on anything but bombs to drop on brown people and bonuses for rich people is socialist evil that they are now planning to cut funding for vaccinations.

That’s right, the GOP is going to succeed where Jenny McCarthy did not quite persevere. Our children are gonna catch whooping cough and die. But not before spreading the disease to anyone outside of a gated community.