Big Mon­key, Helpy Chalk thinks out loud about wheat, dogs, and his­tory in “Our sym­biotes, ourselves”

Reminds me of this archived post. [I’m bring­ing them over from the mori­bund archives as I can.]

For exam­ple, the “Dar­win is Dead” car­ni­val. [I’m not link­ing directly]. Isn’t it won­der­ful how peo­ple are allowed to be so obsti­nately dim-​​witted?

Seen at Ghost in the Machine:

“The [insti­gat­ing] law­maker, House Ways and Means Com­mit­tee mem­ber Sam John­son (R-​​Tex.), was in turn respond­ing to a com­plaint about the group…from Barn­aby W. Zall, a Wash­ing­ton lawyer close to DeLay and his fundrais­ing appa­ra­tus, accord­ing to IRS documents.“

Should we file this under “Teapot Dome”, or “The Texas Tam­many Hall”?

Read it to write stuff to con­vince them.

at archy:

Most frozen mam­moth the­o­ries use the pres­ence of these mam­moths corpses as evi­dence for some cat­a­strophic event in the past: pole shift, near miss by rogue plan­ets, explo­sion of errant ice moon, Noah’s flood, or its after­math. They agree that the mam­moths were all frozen in a sin­gle event. If the mam­moth is truly a sep­a­rate species from other ele­phants (many the­o­ries say it is not), then the cat­a­stro­phe was the cause of their extinc­tion. The Hol­low Earth the­ory is different.