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"Many animal species feed their young with regurgitated food. Humans do not do this. However, humans do make casseroles."

EDIT: Hope he had the decency to reply

We're spending Thanksgiving up at my sister-in-law's place, about an hour's drive + half-hour ferry ride + waiting in ferry line for an unknowably long time, heading out tomorrow. Made two loaves of gingerbread this morning. Waiting for the glass pans to cool off so I can wash everything and make other baked goods we're taking up.

I think they have missed something important: systematic plundering of very specific mineral resources from really old geologic provinces. As a specific example: modern era iron-ore mining focuses on the banded iron formations laid down as Earth's atmosphere was becoming oxygen-rich, 2 +/- 0.5 Gyr ago. Those formations cannot be regenerated by the planet (unless we humans succeed in deoxygenating the atmosphere, which the fossil fuel companies seem bent upon doing). There are big holes in the crust now where those formations have been mined out. I think those will be apparent to any successors of ours. On a smaller scale because it dates to pre-industrial times, Europe has been more or less completely mined out of precious metal deposits (gold and silver). You can tell where they were because of the tracking of current sediments into much older geologic deposits, stuff left behind by the miners as they dug out the metals. That kind of selective pocket intrusion from above is hard to understand via natural processes. (Generating gold deposits is not well understood, but probably involves fractional crystallization out of magma intruding from below.) Continental crust is not being generated now, except very slowly at the leading edges of continental plates. (Oceanic crust is being continuously recycled at impressive rates; I think all the oceanic crust is no older than 100 million years, as it is subducted under the continents.) So the small but highly selective scars we have left in the continental crust seem likely to last for as long Earth remains habitable, which is estimated to be about another billion years.

That is exactly the initial comment about that image at the place I stole it from.

It's part of being proudly tasteless.

In what is one of the few developments in college football that I actually approve of ... The Apple Cup will continue to be played for at least the next five years

Trolling the fanbases ....

Cheap shots... The best kind.

Q: "Infernal Ice Creamery?" A: That one is Lemon Ghost Pepper Meringue pie.

The Decruciferou-fier: Banishes all cruciferous vegetables from the room. So there's no Brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, mustard greens, etc., that duty requires you to eat! (Note: This hero manifests as a 9-year-old boy.) NT: Sale items and prices that would succeed in tempting you out into the malls on Black Friday. For example, Space Ghost's Armbands [with real Space Ghost powers in them] on sale for $99 a pair (in person and cash only, limit 3)!

Over the centuries, sycophants have learned how to keep children out of earshot of the emperor, especially when the emperor is swindling himself. Alternately, the ancient precursor to the fable.

Since I am officially retired now, I have abandoned my version of that quest.

You survive in your disaster dreams? Wow. I never did, which is why I started working on not remembering them starting about age 6.

What happens in the storm? Well, that's what apocalypso music is about.

Love Friday-before-game fanblog snark.

Nobody respects underground comics. Sigh.

But, since it went nowhere, no work was done.

No Waffle Houses out towards the Left Coast (they only get as far west as Phoenix), where IHOP and Denny's hold down that business niche. But after spending a decade in Texas and Indiana, I know about the Waffle House. I think I last ate at one in early 1988 in Little Rock when I got there 6 hours later than I'd planned because a snowstorm more or less blocked all the highways. The legendary Waffle House fight in Austin postdates my stay there. My 24-hour eatery while in Austin was the Nighthawk, now long gone.

Nevertheless, he drew more tiger than clothes.

I have not been following this massive fiasco, but I'm really hoping this happens. I am not a fan of either of those two institutions, but the mindless moneygrubbing avarice that led the rest of the conference to cut out in unseemly haste -- and my near-lifetime hate for intercollegiate athletics as a university faculty member in a real academic discipline -- wants the other scumbuckets to lose everything.