Didn't Kurt Vonnegut write about that?
I think it's called Ice Nine.

escape from snowball Earth

Third in the "Snake Pliskin" series?

So, ol' Mother Earth needs a penicillin shot? Slut.

If Mother Earth didn't want to be raped by mankind she shouldn't have dressed that way.

Mother Earth should just relax, lie back on the pinball machine, and enjoy it.

Where's our open thread? Because this is just too good not to point out.

In this newsletter, Dobson quotes from a book that has advice from keeping your son from being homosexual. The advice is, er, well, just read it:

Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.

I'm a religious conservative and respect Dr. Dobson for the work he's done making psychiatry acceptable in the church.

But quoting this sort of thing approvingly is a bit odd, I think.

Thank God for Global Warming! :-)

Hmmm... I always thought Mother Earth was a lesbian.

He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.

Unless of course the son is a young Johnny Holmes clone and then that would just screw up the power structure.

Slublog's way OT comment, reminds me of this quote

"Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis? "

Which brings up another OT comment:

What ever happened to Deborah Foreman?

Slublog-- you're kidding, right? That sounds to me like the perfect recipe to MAKE your son gay.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

JFH-- a girl's gotta have her standards.

Unless we're talking about bbeck ;-).

So, would it be presumptuous for me to call Mother Earth "Gaia," or should I wait for her to invite me to use her first name?

Make occasional eye contact, but wait for her to smile at you before going over there and killing off all her bacteria.

Impacting like a bowel movement... (??)

Ew

LauraW,

You have really screwed it up BIG TIME, as my minion Cheney would say, by promoting this little article exposing our past climate destruction tests, future plans and methods.

The black helicopters of the Zombie Halliburton Army will be by to pick you up for a little ride shortly.

Weeee!
'Copter rides!

I always figured Mother Earth for some smelly hippy chick, what with her feckless, do-nothing lolling around the Milky Way, mooching off the sun's heat, and her complete lack of ambition even though she's just Planet Number 3.

All this nasty bacteria crap is just another piece of confirming evidence.

Still, she's better than that Pluto. That loser's not even a planet yet, and still living in the solar system's basement, even though he's what, like, billions of year's old now?

Everybody just settle down, now. Everything's gonna be ok -- we got cow flatulence.

"Can you hammer a six-inch spike through a board with your penis"?

No, but I can push a bowling ball up a flight of stairs with my tongue.

I love how half the science stories in the news are years old and well known - or reprints of stories they already reported on. This is not a recent discovery (even the cause). The period is even called the Cryogenian!

In the past five years, the media has twice gone crazy over the fact that dinosaurs have a second "brain" in their rears. I first learned this from a kids video produced in the 80's(It starred Fred Savage)!

It is as though the journalists consider it a newsworthy event when they pick up a science textbook.

You obviously have not met many journalists. I was a journalism student in college - when one of us picks up a book that has anything to do with actual science, it's pretty noteworthy

Actually, the Cryogenian was the second time this happened. The first time was called the Huronian.

Wait-- dinos had a second brain, in their rear? WTF?

Does that make them smart asses?

Obliquity - my new favorite word. Explains this global warming bullshit AND proves the ID theory. God freezes us out every 40k years just to make sure we don't get too big for our britches.

May I be the first person in the thread to say Uranus?

Thank you.

Yeahp, nobody likes an uppity bacterium.

If I can remember my science class correctly, the rear brain of the dinos was limited to triggering a beeping sound when they backed up.

Pretty soon our rotation is going to slow enought that we're going to get all fucking wobbly then go shooting off across the galaxy, careening off of other planets until we slam into the baseboard and skid to a halt.

Then we'll have to circle the globe several times with a really big fucking string, attach it to the space shuttle and blast off. Hopefully, we'll get the spin balanced this time for cripes sake! *wanders off wondering if we should wrap the string clockwise or counter?*

Dave - It was not really a brain, but a large nerve plexus above their pelvis. Sort of like the "horse-tail" of nerves at the end of our spinal column.

http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/320Ornithischia/300.html

And somehow through natural selection this 'rear brain' in the males migrated to the penis.

Wait-- dinos had a second brain, in their rear? WTF?

Does that make them smart asses?

Well, seeing as smoking, or drunk driving, or dinosaur-made global warming or somesuch killed them all off, I'd say dumb asses is more likely.

Stupid moron dinosaurs.

That sounds to me like the perfect recipe to MAKE your son gay.

Yeah, the part where the father teaches the son how to drop the soap in the shower makes it sort of suspect, doesn't it?

Methane is used to heat homes? Now I have a perfectly sound scientific excuse to give my wife when she complains about my methane emissions.

just be careful that it's only methane compos

compos stole my joke...

Minnesota all over? As someone familiar, let me tell you that is NOT cold and snowy all the time in Minnesota. In fact is has been downright "Alabama hot" here lately.

Ahh, exellent advice Dave!

It seems as though there's something wrong with one of the keys on my keyboard beause I an't fuking spell orretly!

It's your hairlip, ompos.

Another thing I wonder about climate change; what if its wonderful? Not being buried under a mile of ice, of course.
But why assume that change = catastrophe?

What if climate change means San Diego-like conditions over a much greater portion of the Earth?