In addition to all of the other horrors befalling New Orleanians during the flood was the creepy discovery that red ants form themselves into floating clusters to avoid drowning. As Dante Ramos and I paddled along Carrollton Avenue on Wednesday, I saw two glittering, golf ball-sized masses of ants floating beside our canoe.
No, wait. They are exactly the same.
Except for skin tone.
"A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store"
Enjoy perusing photos of other people's cats and/or sinks?
There is a compendium of images just for you:
Cats In Sinks
Attention Londoners and sexy bookish jet-setters needing an excuse to visit:
[The lovely and talented Iain Aitch] presents The Reading Frenzy
London’s best ever (yet cheapest) book sale as a benefit for
a bookseller and single mum who has a young kid with cerebral palsy.
Details après le saut.
"[Dinosaurs are} used to brainwash people," [said Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, a Christian group building a $25-million creationist museum in Petersburg, Ky., that's already overrun with model sauropods and velociraptors. {They] contend that dinosaurs arrived on Earth the same day as Adam and Eve, some 6,000 years ago, and later marched two by two onto Noah's Ark. The gift shop sells toy dinosaurs whose labels warn, "Don't swallow it! The fossil record does not [submit easily to digestion]."
Not to try logic against pathetic crackpots' fallacious arguments, or anything, but are they positing that every species that has ever existed, and each that has yet develop, strode two-by-two onto this Noah chap's ark? And it floated? That's a pretty big ark.
This could be the new argument for clear-cutting: God suggested it.
Or maybe the ark was made of witches.
You just don't want to look too closely.
The team believes a special type of "handed" space radiation destroyed more right-handed amino acids on the icy dust from which the solar system formed. This dust, along with the comets it condensed into, then crashed into Earth and other planets, providing them with an overabundance of left-handed amino acids that went on to form proteins.
Some say that our generation has no sense of history.
The Anti-Sit Archives shows we're in touch with our material cultural heritage.
We celebrate the births of King Ferdinand I of Romania, Joshua Lionel Cowen, Jorge Luis Borges, A. S. Byatt, Paulo Coelho, Jean-Michel Jarre, Stephen Fry, David Chappelle, and most of all the lovely and talented Brendan Donohoe.
Bush says anti-war protests threaten to weaken the United States
The coddling of oil companies, poorly planned empire expansion thrusts, the swindling of entire states' electricity consumers, the decimation of public education, the flouting of scientific proofs in favor of superstition and reckless debauchery, meanwhile, are factors in our healthy economy.
[...] this is the part where Disney stands in front of Pixar's (Nasdaq: PIXR) house, holding up a boombox blaring vintage Peter Gabriel.
"Nobody LARPs quite like Rob (Darken)."
Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics of All Time, via WFMU
Time to watch A Bug's Life, again.
I've always known about Mae West, Robert DeNiro and Sean Penn. But Marcus Garvey? Samuel Goldwyn? Maureen O'Hara? And W. Mark Felt? Nifty: I'll take 'em (as something like a sympathetic magic baseball card collection, I guess; I never really understood that). And look: I get a bonus XTC bassist, a chess champion, and so many tight ends (wiggles cigar, Groucho style)!
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[something about flesh and appliances and incense-asphyxiation-atonement]
And with that, Hummers are officially over. As with any oversized vehicle, though, humans are still expensive to operate, a pain in the ass to maintain, and expensive to park in the city. But I totally want one.
THE PRESIDENT: Thanks, John, appreciate you.