Category: News

From Monkeyfilter: Modified genes from crops in a GM crop trial have transferred into local wild plants, creating a form of herbicide-resistant "superweed"… The cross-fertilisation between GM oilseed rape, a brassica, and a distantly related plant, charlock, had been discounted as virtually impossible by scientists with the environment department.

Announcement at 9 tonight. Since when did the judicial branch become a game show? Prime time announcement? I hear that Bo Bice is gonna kick Clements ass. 

You’re kidding. A state whose cuisine centers on saturated fats and tobacco? On almost every health measure, Kentuckians fare poorly — second worst nationally for cancer deaths, fifth worst for cardiovascular deaths and seventh worst for obesity, according to the paper, which published a special eight-page section on the state’s poor health.  I was born […]

So everybody got together and sang and got to feel good about themselves and what happened? Not much but I couldn’t quite figure out why I wasn’t into the whole event. George Galloway, again, hits the nail on the head: [What] Bono and Geldof were doing, which was protesting to ask the G8 Summit for […]

A caustic post about the over-coverage of Natalie Holloway (thanks to Terrance for putting the nail in my coffin of watching TV news – no more! It is Amy Goodman + BBC from here on out): Fuck Natalie Hollaway And the round-the-clock news site: White Women in Peril featuring headlines like: Will Media Jump On […]

(from MeFi) Greenlighters are an emerging underground movement of sexually promiscuous teenagers, including bisexual, homosexual, and heterosexual members. Members of this movement wear a green polo shirt with the collar up, indicating that they are open to pretty much any sexual adventure. When someone comes up to them and puts the collar down, they are […]

Chinese farmers, acting with the approval and encouragement of government officials, have tried to suppress major bird flu outbreaks among chickens with an antiviral drug meant for humans… International researchers now conclude that this is why the drug will no longer protect people in case of a worldwide bird flu epidemic.

Whenever I think I’m bitter – I turn to Jim Kusntler, who is infinitely more educated and insightful than I. His blog, Clusterfuck Nation, is a semi-weekly dose of bitchslap. What you see in this miserable airport is simply the death of the airline industry. The airlines are the giant “canaries in the coal mine” […]