Scientists find Crockaduck.

The famed predicted animal that Kirk Cameron predicted that evolutionists should find if evolution were true! It was located. Reported one scientist, "Wow, that's odd, the existence of that thing absolutely demolishes the theory of evolution. We have to scrape pretty much all of it." Another added, "Yeah, there's no way that thing conforms to common descent, we're pwned."

Below The Even I Can Do That Math Threshold.

After squeaking out a win in Indiana and getting trounced in North Carolina Hillary Clinton now has a new problem. The media isn't abusing Occam's Dildo anymore. It is not longer giving the titillating glimmers of hope to the campaign from several days ago. Given the choice between favoring the theory that due to sheer obviousness Obama now has it pretty much sewn up and Hillary Clinton has a shot "can she do it?" -- They are now dropping the much more infotaining choice mandated by Occam's Dildo (which the new media uses regularly).

Clinton now needs 324.5 out of 487.5 remaining delegates to win, or 66.5% of the remaining delegates. Yesterday she only would have needed 59% of the remaining delegates to get the nomination. That said the media loosing interest in pretending there's fight left in the old girl yet and she's on the ropes but gaining momentum seem to be fading.



Barack Obama is going to be the Democratic Nominee for President.

Moving Story... tainted...

A 76 year old woman was found after being lost two weeks wandering in the forest. The rescue workers were scaling back operations and then they happened upon her. As I'm reading this story a little nugget sticks out at me...

A hunting party later found a disoriented Harold Anderson, but there was no sign of his wife.

"I thought I'd never see her again until the rapture," he said.

That's where I stopped caring and stopped reading.

Redheads going extinct says confused bit of nonsense attributed to scientists...

Apparently gingers will be extinct within 100 years. Why would this fairly moot trait be driven extinct? What is the selection force behind it? What is driving sexy redheads to never breed or die in large numbers...

Global intermingling, which broadens the availability of possible partners, has reduced the chances of redheads meeting and producing little redheads of their own.

It takes only one red-haired parent to produce ginger-headed babies, but two redheads obviously create a much stronger possibility.

Hm? Apparently they don't understand basic genetics. Red hair is primarily caused by one gene, red/not-red where red is recessive. So a parent with rr will have red hair and a parent with Rr or RR will have not-red hair. However, if parents are simply carriers for the gene, Rr and Rr then a solid 1/4th of their children will have red hair. It actually takes zero red-haired parents to produce a red headed child. Secondly, ginger is blond+red whereas auburn is brown+red controlled (pretty much) by the two genes. And blond is recessive. So frankly, if the genes get mixed up into the population then you can still produce a ginger from two dark haired individuals. In fact, have the same number of genes would exist simply mixed up into populations that don't express the genes. It would not make the genes less frequent.

Genes are a pretty simplistic idea of what's actually going on to express those traits, but really... this one fits the model really well. And even then they don't seem to get the model. That or are using "extinct" to mean a decrease in typical phenotype expression.

Praise Bob!

Rev. Magdalen (Rachel Bevilacqua) got her son back. For those of you not familiar with the case, Rev. Magdalen is part of the Slack the Church of the Subgenius a sort of parody religion, with more humor than direct parody. In any event, during the custody hearing, her involvement with the group was brought up, to which the judge noted that it was "obviously so not true from anybody who's looking at it from any normal perspective" and she was "mentally ill" and a "pervert." -- Referring to her X-Day activities.

This would be akin to losing your child because you attended Ren Faires, meaning you are a vile Luddite, a drunken debauchery-seeking hooligan and having all your parental rights stripped.

Sadly though, she wasn't given her child back because the judge (Judge Punch) was a flaming idiot who never should have made such idiotic claims and taken her child away, in principle for atheism and mocking religion in a fun and interesting way. No! She got her son back because the upstanding citizen who the judge gave her child to, got drunk and ran into a wall and now faces 11 years in jail.

The Christian Science Monitor

Oddly enough when I first heard the name Christian Science Monitor, I took it with a grain of salt. After looking a bit more, it became quickly apparent that they were real news. Seems a bit odd for something that Monitors Science by 'Christians', usually the only time Christians distinguish themselves from science is to undermine it as, *gasp*, unchristian. Although there were some science articles, it seemed by and large just run of the mill news.

Later, I actually learned a bit about it. I had it all wrong! It wasn't the Christian "Science Monitor" -- it was the "Christian Science" Monitor. Oddly enough it's founded by that "prayer rather than medicine" group. And later distinguished itself as a real news place and didn't change the name.

Weird. The group so odd Mark Twain wrote an entire book about it, runs (or at the least founded) a good news organization. Likewise he dedicated a chapter to Mormonism and now they own Utah.

Three Mine Rescue Workers Dead...

Fucking hell. I understand you need to work with the presumption that the other miners are still alive. But, those other miners have been dead for a week and to lose three lives in an attempt to rescue corpses sucks so hard. Arg.