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BP gas station
Words to live by?
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(In related news, Sarah Palin blames the spill on environmentalists: “Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.”)
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Posted: June 7th, 2010 under headlines, sigh.
Comments: 1
Why am I working today?
Average Number of Vacation Days per Year
source: World Tourism Organization (WTO)
Italy 42 days
France 37 days
Germany 35 days
Brazil 34 days
UK 28 days
Canada 26 days
Korea 25 days
Japan 25 days
USA 13 days
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Posted: December 30th, 2008 under sigh.
Comments: 4
Are We Evolving?
Not much sign of it in this Newsweek poll. Among its findings:
- Nearly half of all Americans believe that evolution is not well supported by evidence and is not widely accepted within the scientific community (despite numerous expressions of scientific support from Nobel Prize winners, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the United States National Academy of Science, the American Geological Institute, and many others)
- The same percentage (and nearly three-quarters of evangelical protestants) believe God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years (in other words, they were created more recently than many known human artifacts — I mean, even freaking Fox News acknowledges that).
To accommodate this kind of information I’ve added the a new blog category called “sigh.”
Posted: March 31st, 2007 under politics, scary, sigh.
Comments: none