The War on Fat People Recedes A Bit

Because people are not mice.

Hubble Finds Bigfoot

Well, something unusual anyway---if it's not dust.

Repealing the Law of Momentum

...for the sake of political correctness, and at the expense of human life.

Force = mass x acceleration. In a collision between a tiny little deathtrap like a SmartCar and an 18-wheeler, the latter always wins.

Regardless of what the eco-fools claim.

1 in 4 Teen Girls Has An STD?

No, but some folks sure are statistical illiterates.

Materialism --> Fascism

Where Darwin leads.

In Nazi Germany's case, Darwin was helped along by an influential, 65,000 word (roughly 300-page) anti-Semitic tract written by Martin Luther, a point driven home by William Shirer in his indispensable "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."

Secularism leads inevitably to more intolerance and absolutism, not less, as it undermines human dignity and the respect for life which are the pillars of the Western world. This is the key message Pope Benedict XVI is bringing America during his visit.

The notion that materialists are more tolerant than the religious in the West may be refuted by following the news. Galileo was treaded far more humanely by the Church than a climate scientist who notes the "hockey stick" is fictitious and that global temperatures don't seem to have risen since 1998 is treated by the materialists.

So Much for the Great Power Line Conspiracy

Parasites kill honeybees.

As there are no ways to tie this fact into global warming or modern Ludditism, expect the moonbats to bark elsewhere.

Bono, Toilet Paper and Greenhouse Gases

The Anchoress delivers another delicious morsel:

Look, if we're going to be urged -- relentlessly -- to accept that global warming is "the most important moral, ethical, spiritual and political issue humankind has ever faced", the unrelenting "crisis" of our time, if it's as urgent a matter as these preening moralists insist it is, then we need to explore concrete, measurable means of conservation that -- unlike "sparing the square" -- may actually matter. Let's start with Sheryl Crow's medium, the rock concert, shall we?

I recall U2's fun, splendidly ironic "Zoo TV" Tour of the early 1990's. The band spent over 18 months traveling the globe in support of their fantastic album, "Achtung, Baby", hitting all the stadiums and large venues on every continent. 157 shows. The tour boasted:

The stage ... featured vidi walls, 36 video monitors, numerous television cameras, two separate mix positions, 26 on stage microphones, 176 speakers, and 11 elaborately painted Trabants, several of which were suspended over the stage with spotlights inserted into headlights, which all required 1 million watts of power to operate: enough to run 2,000 homes.

A total of 52 trucks were required to transport the 1,200 tons of equipment, 3 miles of cabling, 200 labourers, 12 forklifts and one 40-ton crane, required to construct the stage. And that was for every show.

That's a pretty impressive bit of consumption, but let's add into it the luxury jets (and non-luxurious staff planes) that carted U2 and their handlers, techies, roadies, belly-dancers, make-up, costumers, etc all around. Add to it the air conditioning at the indoor venues. Add into it the trains, planes and automobiles used to transport hundreds of thousands of people to the shows. Add to it the klieg lights used for every televised interview, the trees killed to print every magazine promo and to print the $30.00 posters sold at all 157 shows. And consider if you will the souvenir teeshirts -- probably stitched together in some hellish Indonesian sweatshop -- that weren’t even made out of bamboo fiber!

More Good News in the War on Cancer

Settle down, Lefties, I said "War on Cancer", not "War on Terror"---kindly remove that lighter from Old Glory and read this.

Today's Best Subtitle

"If embryonic research is so promising, why do its backers need to lie?"

M-O-N-E-Y.

To Bee Or Not To Bee

A real catastrophe---something's killing off American bees.