The UMM Dancing Elves!

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Blame Nic for this…but did you know you can put your face on a dancing elf and make a spectacle of yourself? If you have the guts, click here for the show.

Or if you’d rather, watch Nic dance. All the faculty out here at the University of Minnesota Morris are elfin, as you can see.

Now we just need to get all the scienceblogs people to join in, and we can have an all-dancing scienceblogs review!


This could get disturbing. Here are the latest scienceblogs elves:

More weird tales from Wisconsin

OK, this fellow in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin saw a strange-looking deer: it had the stubs of extra legs growing out of 3 of its limbs, and it was an intersex. That’s strange enough, and is of developmental interest, and would have me wondering what kind of environmental stresses are perturbing wildlife development in that neck of the woods.

The fellow hit the deer with his truck and killed it, and reported it to the DNR. So it’s actually road kill, a very common thing.

Now here’s where I get baffled: the man ate it afterwards.

“And by the way, I did eat it,” Lisko said. “It was tasty.”

Jebus. Wisconsin. At least he didn’t have sex with it first, I don’t think.

Oh, well, that’s all right then

Here’s another article on that freaky Left Behind video game. The rationalizations for the ability to kill people violently in the game are fascinating.

Left Behind Games’ president, Jeffrey Frichner, says the game actually is
pacifist because players lose “spirit points” every time they gun down
nonbelievers rather than convert them. They can earn spirit points again by
having their character pray.

Isn’t the most wonderful version of pacifism ever? Go out, butcher a few people, engage in a warlike campaign…and as long as you beg an invisible man’s forgiveness afterwards, you can still call yourself a pacifist. With that kind of reasoning, Ted Haggard is a heterosexual, Bill Bennett is a cautious investor, and Ted Nugent is an environmentalist. No wonder Christianity is popular among hypocrites.

Can you put away the icepick now?

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Comrade Myers signs his confession before the eyes of the Committee

I have been ordered by the Ministry of Justice of the We Are All Giant Nuclear Fireball Now Party to publicly confess my shame and apologize for my grave offenses against the WAAGNFNP. I do so apologize. I have been ordered to abjure all attempts to redirect trolls to the distraction of the Glorious Show Trial against the Enemy of the People, Chris Clarke. I do so.

The revolution seems to have begun

Is it too late to join the “We are all giant nuclear fireball” Party? ‘Cuz I’m getting a little worried what with all the show trials of the radicals. Pretty soon they’re going to start banishing people to gulags in icy wastelands like Western Minnesota…oh, say. That’s all right then. I guess they can’t do anything too horrible to me, then.

Other than the Dakotas, that is.