"i bet that if i unscrewed her ears, cabbage would fall out"

Found this in Peter Gammons's latest column:

According to the Korean News Bureau, South Korean Doosan Bears' pitcher Park Myung-hwan twice lost his cap while delivering a pitch and each time frozen cabbage leaves fell off his head twice in a game on June 19. The frozen cabbage leaves inside the cap were used to keep his head cool.

The Korea Baseball Organization has been moved to rule that wearing cabbage leaves inside a baseball cap constitutes an "alien material" that may disrupt a game, prohibited according to the organization's rules, the organization said in a statement Tuesday.

The subject line is from a Broom-Hilda cartoon that has stuck in my mind since early childhood.

"i bet that if i unscrewed her ears, cabbage would fall out"

Found this in Peter Gammons's latest column:

According to the Korean News Bureau, South Korean Doosan Bears' pitcher Park Myung-hwan twice lost his cap while delivering a pitch and each time frozen cabbage leaves fell off his head twice in a game on June 19. The frozen cabbage leaves inside the cap were used to keep his head cool.

The Korea Baseball Organization has been moved to rule that wearing cabbage leaves inside a baseball cap constitutes an "alien material" that may disrupt a game, prohibited according to the organization's rules, the organization said in a statement Tuesday.

The subject line is from a Broom-Hilda cartoon that has stuck in my mind since early childhood.

supreme court's eminent domain decision not so obvious

Stephen Burzio, an attorney who represents low-income tenants in New York City, criticizes newspaper editorials regarding the Kelo v. New London decision.  It's an easy read, whereas Armando's summary on Daily Kos is more technical, but also quotes in detail the Majority's decision as well as the dissent in order to buttress his point.  Anyway, it's all more complicated than i imagined it to be, but i'm still not happy about how things fell out, especially with Freeport's city hall's quick decision to take advantage of the ruling.

mutual asciiured destruction

BANG! BANG!

VORSICHT!  The above Flash movie contains a loud Rammstein song; modulate volume as appropriate.  If you do not like Teutonic industrial music, turn the sound off, as the rest should still be enjoyable.

mutual asciiured destruction

BANG! BANG!

VORSICHT!  The above Flash movie contains a loud Rammstein song; modulate volume as appropriate.  If you do not like Teutonic industrial music, turn the sound off, as the rest should still be enjoyable.

you know what's intelligently designed? science!

Fresh off sciam is a writeup on the World Summit on Evolution, held (where else?) at the Galápagos Islands (sure, cute, but shouldn't we try to curtail human activity there?  holding the conference there is, frankly, a matter of vanity).

I wonder how long it'll take to find a Creationist or ID response to the conference.  I suppose it wouldn't matter, since they're just a bunch of vapid twits... but now i'm just being gratuitously mean.

VAPID.  TWITS.

Anyway, where was i... ah yes.  Although i'm basically rehashing the final paragraph, i'll point out regardless that the fact that the writeup lists people who present off-kilter theories (such as Provine's White Whale) or pooh-pooh currently held ideas (such as Margulis's declaration of the death of neo-Darwinism [whatever that means]) should put the lie to anti-evolution (let's call a spade a fuckin' shovel, yes?) proponents who claim that the state of science today is one that is intolerant of deviation from "scientific dogma", although some nuts will probably cling with desperation to small things like the one anonymous person who felt it impolitic to criticize Margulis because she was going to be awarded an honorary degree.

I did take issue, however, with one Richard Fortey quote: "Evolution was experimenting with many wondrous varieties..."  Although it's only a figure of speech, it anthropomorphizes science, and (i repeat myself) it's the sort of thing that the nutbar fringe will seize as proof of science's elitist attitude that dares personify and equate Evolution with Our Creator™.

Despite a few things that were over my head (duh, i last took a biology class in high school), it was an enjoyable read.

you know what's intelligently designed? science!

Fresh off sciam is a writeup on the World Summit on Evolution, held (where else?) at the Galápagos Islands (sure, cute, but shouldn't we try to curtail human activity there?  holding the conference there is, frankly, a matter of vanity).

I wonder how long it'll take to find a Creationist or ID response to the conference.  I suppose it wouldn't matter, since they're just a bunch of vapid twits... but now i'm just being gratuitously mean.

VAPID.  TWITS.

Anyway, where was i... ah yes.  Although i'm basically rehashing the final paragraph, i'll point out regardless that the fact that the writeup lists people who present off-kilter theories (such as Provine's White Whale) or pooh-pooh currently held ideas (such as Margulis's declaration of the death of neo-Darwinism [whatever that means]) should put the lie to anti-evolution (let's call a spade a fuckin' shovel, yes?) proponents who claim that the state of science today is one that is intolerant of deviation from "scientific dogma", although some nuts will probably cling with desperation to small things like the one anonymous person who felt it impolitic to criticize Margulis because she was going to be awarded an honorary degree.

I did take issue, however, with one Richard Fortey quote: "Evolution was experimenting with many wondrous varieties..."  Although it's only a figure of speech, it anthropomorphizes science, and (i repeat myself) it's the sort of thing that the nutbar fringe will seize as proof of science's elitist attitude that dares personify and equate Evolution with Our Creator™.

Despite a few things that were over my head (duh, i last took a biology class in high school), it was an enjoyable read.