Undecided voters, they get all the attention. Key quote from the “Family Guy”: Lois, undecided voters are the biggest idiots on the planet. Try giving short, simple answers. Posted in Politics   Tagged: LOFL, Politics, Undecided Voters, Voters   

Here is an animal camouflage exclusive showing the extraordinary cryptic abilities of the leafy sea dragon (Phycodurus eques). I picked the best images posted on Flickr with a creative commons license, which illustrate the fascinating morphology of these creatures. These captivating aquatic animals are cryptic specialists, and they are related to the seahorses and pipefishes. If you [...]

A ghost pipefish floats cryptically upside down. Ghost pipefishes are relatives of pipefishes and seahorses. They are very ornate and showy like the weedy and leafy sea dragons. See more animal camouflage — Photo source for attribution. The author or licensor of this image does not endorse my work or me and their image is protected [...]

  Remember the scene at the end of Peter Pan, where the children are told that, if they don’t shout out aloud that they all believe in fairies, then Tinker Bell’s gonna fucking die? That’s what the fall of 2008 was like, and quite a fall it was, at that. - Christopher Hitchens Hitchens argues that the United [...]

According to the evidence and a recent report, Sarah Palin knowingly allowed her husband to act with retalitive and unethical behavior to further a personal agenda against Palin’s former brother-in-law, Mike Wooten. From the TrooperGate Report: [Sarah Palin] knowingly, as that term is defined in the above cited statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the [...]

Here is what happens when we elect an individual, who lacks intellectual curiosity but embraces a one-sided narrow agenda, as President of the United States (think Sarah Palin too, from Reuters): Carter told reporters on a stopover in Brussels that “profligate spending,” massive borrowing and dramatic tax cuts since President George W. Bush took office in [...]

Energy is supposed to be Sarah Palin’s one area of strength, but she seems to either misunderstand basic energy policy regarding the use of Alaska’s natural energy reserves, or she deliberately lied in order to avoid a confrontation in a recent Wisconsin town hall meeting. From the Associated Press: A questioner at a town hall-style meeting in Wisconsin [...]

The hadal snailfish, a deep-sea specialist, has been captured on camera feeding on bait almost 5 miles below the ocean’s surface. This is the first time this species has been observed living, and it is only known from a handful of specimens trawled up over 50 years before.  These fish must sustain immense pressure, [...]

Los Angeles lawyer Richard B. Kendall described the sonar as like the sound of “a jet engine in this room multiplied by 2,000 times.” He said beaked whales, in panic, dive deeply to escape the sound, and they sometimes suffer bleeding and even death when they try to resurface. - Via the Los Angeles Times, CA Today [...]

The reality of MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Island” is ugly, since it seems the gentler MTV of the 1980s has grown into a corporate monster that will stop at nothing to produce and air its worthless crap. While filming and producing “Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Island,” MTV trashed Boca del Drago [...]