From August 15, 2016
Hey! Remember this? How we defenseless taxpayers of America paid over $400,000 to some idiot “professor” to pioneer “feminist glaciology” and “the connection between gender and glaciers”?
So you thought I was kidding yesterday when I wrote “Physics goes P.C.”? Well, so did I–but now I’m not so sure. I mean, here we’ve got a “feminist political ecology and feminist postcolonial approach” to the study of glaciers. What the blazes does that mean?
We are asked–if not ordered–to believe in “science” as the ultimate arbiter of truth. If “science” says it ain’t so, then it ain’t so: sayonara, Book of Genesis. And if “science” says it’s so, then it’s so: come on in, feminist glaciology! Here, you can sit down right here, between Climate Change and Evolution.
Is what we call “science” even science anymore?
If you say yes, lots of luck trying to prove it.
“Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies…”
How ridiculous can Far Left race-hustlers get?
The following is not a satire.
A number of, um, “scientists” have blasted the Discovery Channel’s annual “Shark Week” for [kazoo fanfare]–
–“It’s too white!” (Boo, hiss, where did all those white folks come from?)
–“There are too many guys named Mike in it.” (Go figure.)
–“It perpetuates negative stereotypes of sharks!”
And a new grievance group has been formed: “Minorities in Shark Studies.” ‘Cause I guess every ethnicity now will come to its own conclusions about reality. Every bunch of dindles gets its own science.
Do these people need to get out more? Are they watching too much TV? Do they have so little to worry about in life that they can take the time to indulge this?
From April 17, 2016
Obviously this cat likes sticking her head under running water. Why she likes it, that’s a mystery. She looks a bit like one of our cats, Peep, who wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing.
One thing about cats, dogs, rats, mice, iguanas, turtles, and other animals–each has his own personality. They’re individuals.
Especially the cat in this video.
From May 5, 2017
G’day, mate! Mr. Nature here, somewhere in the suburbs in Australia, just in time for an early-morning fight between two male kangaroos.
These guys can get up to eight feet tall when they stand on their hind legs; and with the sturdy tail available as a third leg, they can kick with both hind legs at once. Meanwhile, they punch and scratch with their clawed forepaws.
I don’t see anybody running outside to break this up.
Why did God make kangaroos so fierce?
He didn’t. It’s the fallen world that made them fierce. And anyway, the occasional ferocity of male kangaroos in mating season hardly holds a candle to the ferocity of human beings toward one another.
God is at work, even now, to restore His creation to its original state of purity. We wonder why it’s taking Him so long.
But I know one thing for sure: I’d rather He did it than us.
An Inquisitor column from August 4, 1976
Evidence provided the State Assn. of Sludge Producers and Dumpers indicates that the massive fish kills off the Jersey shore are an example of mass suicide among the lower animals.
“They killed themselves,” said Dr. Jack C. Robbin, a biologist retained by the association, “and that’s all there is to it.”
“Dr. Robbin’s findings lay to rest, once and for all, the fallacious rumor that sludge dumping kills marine life.” said Harold Slyme, president of the association.
The reasons for the catastrophic deaths of fish, lobsters, clams and other ocean creatures have been hotly debated. The ecology-minded have blamed it on sludge-dumping, while others have attributed it to natural causes.
The arguments pointing to sludge as the culprit were strong. Sludge can smother clams and other burrowers by clogging up their air holes, can poison fish that feed on sludge-coated plants and tiny animals, and may carry bacteria whose activities can upset the oxygen balance in the water.
“The infamous ‘Dead Sea’ is not our fault,” declared Slyme, referring to a 20 square mile patch of ocean floor off New Jersey which is now devoid of life. “Dr. Robbin sent several divers down there, and the ones who came back reported that no sludge was present.”
(Environmentalist groups have called that statement “an out-and-out lie” and advised interested observers to “ask any oceanographer.”
One of the divers, Arthur Kill, described a scene on the ocean floor just off the mouth of the Manasquan River.
“It was horrible,” Kill said, “I saw several lobsters crouched in a hara-kiri position, just like a bunch of little Japanese generals. Dozens of clams had closed up their shells and literally starved themselves to death, and fish were belly-up everywhere.”
The fish, he explained, had apparently committed suicide by refusing to circulate water through their gills.
“We knew it wasn’t sludge,” said Slyme. “After all, we’ve been pumping sludge into the ocean for years, and there are still more fish in it than you can shake a stick at. Until Dr. Robbin finished his investigation we would’ve bet on the natural-causes theory as the answer.”
The Middle Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Center, which maintains a laboratory at Sandy Hook, postulated several causes for the disaster.
“A number of environmental factors including temperature extremes, low oxygen, disease and toxic substances can contribute to fish and shellfish mortalities,” reads a press release from the center. Ruling out disease and temperature change, fish
scientists found a very low concentration of oxygen in the water where the fish kills occurred.
The scientists said the low oxygen level could have been caused by an excessively high bloom of plankton (small plants and animals). When the plankton die and sink to the bottom, the report continued, bacteria will feed on their remains and in the process, use up oxygen. If there were an excess of dead plankton, there could be an excess of oxygen-using bacteria which would cause an oxygen shortage.
“Some people were trying to blame us for causing the excessive plankton bloom in the first place,” said Slyme. “Here and there crackpots were saying that the presence of sludge made the bacteria population explode. But now we know that’s a lot of bull.”
The State Assn of Sludge Dumpers and Producers was formed several months ago to combat the bad publicity which has been growing up around oceanic waste disposal over the years. Various municipalities, sewerage authorities and manufacturers have joined.
The association has entered the fight against a recent EPA order intended to eliminate sludge dumping by 1981, and Slyme said that Dr. Robbin’s findings would be presented as evidence that sludge-dumping causes no harm to marine life.
“You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.” Slyme said. What are we supposed to do with all the sludge and other noxious wastes our society produces–make perfume out of it? If you want progress, you have to mess up the environment a little. At least if we dump the sludge into the ocean, nobody has to worry about stepping in it.”
“Oceans cover about 70 per cent of the earth’s surface,” Dr. Robbin said, “Furthermore, nobody lives in the ocean. It’s only common sense to dispose of waste in the ocean where you have all that room, than on land where you have less and less open space every year.”
Many scientists have expressed doubts about Dr. Robbin’s findings. Even if the fish did commit suicide, they argue, what would make them do it?
“Beats me,” conceded Dr Robbins. “I can’t read a fluke’s mind. Maybe the lobsters figured it was better to do a job on themselves than to sit around and wait to get caught and boiled alive.”
But many remain unconvinced. Indeed, one scientist interprets the suicides as damning evidence against sludge dumping.
“You’d think about killing yourself, too, ” the scientist said, “if somebody kept dumping all that crap on your head.”
I wanted an image of a sick turtle, and this is what they gave me. By cracky, that turtle is a tower of health and strength, compared to what I am.
I’m not getting any better. I feel horrible.
Patty says I should get more exercise. The thought of doing so is a very daunting one… because everything hurts.
Please pray for me.
Do you have a dog waiting for you to come home–and goes wild with joy when you come up the sidewalk? My stars, you can’t beat that!
Sometimes our cats would run to the door when we came home. But cats are less excitable than dogs. And iguanas even more so. I think our turtle was our biggest fan.