Damned monkeys. Stop gawking, put the cell phone away, and flee. We get these things up here in Minnesota, too, and one thing you will not get from me is a video showing it off. I’ll be in the basement, hiding under a mattress.
Category Archive: Environment
May 20 2013
Disaster in Oklahoma
Moore, Oklahoma has been completely flattened by a tornado. Homes and businesses have been destroyed, but also a couple of schools and a hospital. And here’s a time-lapse video of this monster ripping through the countryside. Action News 5 – Memphis, Tennessee What can we do? I mentioned it to Foundation Beyond Belief — go …
May 13 2013
Do you need another reason to despise Facebook?
Here’s one. Mark Zuckerberg is pushing for more oil drilling and pipelines. Two major tech leaders have resigned from Mark Zuckerberg’s new political group, FWD.us, in protest of the organization’s controversial decision to bankroll ads supporting Keystone XL and drilling in the Arctic National Refuge. The Zuckerberg group publicly says its top priority is immigration …
May 12 2013
The SyFy channel should get right on this
It’s the Attack of the Killer Ice Sheets! Winter isn’t quite over here in Minnesota. It’s mostly over, but some vestiges still like to sneak up on us when we’re not looking. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
May 08 2013
Ooh, handy shortcuts against climate change denialists
Very useful: it’s a list of 154 denialist claims with short rebuttals to each. Bookmark it, everyone!
May 02 2013
“Frack” should be the new obscenity
Read this article on fracking and you’ll agree with me. The oil companies have reached new despicable lows in their efforts to poison the air and water. Like any good little privileged American, my first thought was…is this going on in my back yard? And the answer is no, it’s not, there is no fracking …
Apr 22 2013
Earth Day: Atheism+Environmentalism
We’ve started the hangout on Google+. Stop by if you’re interested. And…here’s the result. This is the brief introduction I gave, to try and focus the discussion: For a long time, I’ve been saying that atheism is a heck of a lot more than just disbelieving in gods: we arrive at that conclusion by various …
Apr 22 2013
Happy Eliminating All References To Him Day!
It’s Earth Day today, and I had no idea this was an atheist holiday. Ken Ham sets me straight, though, explaining that Earth Day is actually an anti-christian plot. You see, God made humans stewards of the earth, which basically means that we’re supposed to turn it into farms and gardens. There are also bad …
Apr 10 2013
Joe Barton has data!
The Rethuglican from Texas wants us all to appreciate the diversity of causes behind climate change. It might be natural, it might be human-caused, and it might just be magic. I would point out that if you’re a believer in in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of …
Apr 08 2013
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: The Too-Common Sludge Duck
This is a very special bird from Arkansas that will become much more common with more oil pipelines running through the middle of the country. Won’t it be great to be able to readily make an entry in your birding book, soon enough?
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