bugs again

Are they called that because that's the most any one of them has ever had or because only one of them is actually capable of it?

when the best clean energy source may turn out to be.... coal!

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/looping203.htm

Why not mint 320 million of them and send one to each citizen? We'd all be filthy rich and never have to work again. No more need for welfare or unemployment benefits or Social Security or Obamacare. And think about how all that extra Keynesian demand would boost the economy! A few of us could get together and buy Switzerland, which would be way cool!

It's lucky, you know. Adding a side of greens or cabbage makes it even luckier (and better). Mine are in the slow cooker.

http://gosoutheast.about.com/od/restaurantslocalcu...

It is based on a quantum theory of consciousness Dr. Stuart Hameroff and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose have developed that holds that "the essence of our soul is contained inside structures called microtubules within brain cells... Thus it is held that our souls are more than the interaction of neurons in the brain. They are in fact constructed from the very fabric of the universe - and may have existed since the beginning of time."

You aren't going to hear about that on MSNBC.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-222...

Wouldn't want to hurt their fragile little feelings and cause emotional stress, you know.

1. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Solstice

2. White Nothingmas

3. Cynicism to the World

4. I Saw Mommy Kissing a Fat Guy

5. Away in a Motel 6

6. I'll Be Home for a Few Days

7. O Ordinary Night

8. Rockin' Around the Coniferous Tree

9. The 12 Days of Superstition

10. Silence Yourself Night

11. Frosty the Pile of Precipitation Threatened by Global Warming

12. Jolly Old Mr. Nicholas

13. The Little Bummer Boy

14. All I Want for No Particular Day is You

15. Rudolph the Reindeer with Rosacea

16. We Wish You an Uneventful Dec. 25th

17. Nobody's Comin' to Town

18. O, Come All Ye Faithless

19. Hark! No One Really Sings

20. O Little Town of San Francisco

Look, he's at least five times as smart as Bush, so it's obvious that if Bush were president, at least 20 Americans would have been killed instead of only 4. So the net effect is that Obama saved 16 lives. My leg is tingling just thinking about his heroism!

The ad makes it sound that way. But the truck stops by two or three hours before I wake up, so I've never even seen him. Should I set my alarm? And I've never hugged the bug man or the meter reader, either. I feel just awful.

OK, Sheen's new show is a snooze-a-thon, and Kutcher is not very funny. Isn't it time to come up with some plot line to explain it (Charlie isn't really dead, his body was stolen by nympho gypsies who brought him back to life, or something like that) and drop him back into the show?

I know mine is!

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies. ...Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

"The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents — #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic."

--Barack Obama, July 3, 2008

Is he in DC, doing his job?

I mean, you really couldn't blame him.

Could we maybe focus on reality now? What are the odds.

I mean the bureaucrats who are in charge of convincing you that every tropical storm or hurricane will bring armageddon. Or have you just stocked up on beer, burgers, and charcoal, put some gas in the generator, and invited your friends over to PARTY! (I've lived on the FL west coast since the 1950s and seen it all. The beer is already on ice. Yee hah!)

Where we could kick the crap out of them?

Just about every time I come here, I try to answer a question and then get a message that it has been deleted. Some of them are perfectly valid. For example, I just ran into one that asked if God can stop existing. In the Philosophy area. What's wrong with that? I've also noticed many questions deleted that have nothing in common except expressing free-market economic ideas. Does Yahoo hire gnomes to sit around deleting things they don't like or agree with? What gives?

"The designers of electric passenger carrying vehicles have made great advances in the past few years, and these machines have retained all their early popularity and are steadily growing in favor with both men and women. They are very handy for use in the cities, and numbers of the best known and most prominent makers of gasoline cars in this country use electric cars for driving between their homes and their offices.

"The enthusiastic interest recently shown by the electric power companies all over the country in furthering the cause of the electric passenger vehicle assures a still greater use of these machines. In the past it was sometimes difficult to make arraignments to have electrics charged unless the vehicles were stored in a garage where owners of electrics were catered to, but this state of affairs has been changed. Now it is possible for an owner of an electric to install his own charging plant in his stable and the electric power companies are anxious to connect their feed wires to these individual charging plants."

Pretty encouraging, except that it was published in 1911. Kinda looks like electric cars are the vehicles of the future, and always will be.

Last night, I saw this thing in my back yard, glowing yellow-green and moving in an apparently random fashion. I caught it in a mayonnaise jar. (Well, actually, it was a Miracle Whip jar--MW is zippier and has no cholesterol.) This morning, it was gone! My wife thinks it was a lightning bug, but they can't pass through solid material like the Higgs can. I think I caught one, but the damn thing got away.