This is so sad -- polar bears drown as Arctic ice melts:
SCIENTISTS have for the first time found evidence that polar bears are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf.
The researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.
[eta: As an antidote, I recommend looking at this picture of bunnies in cups, courtesy of CuteOverload.com.]
Damn. Certain individuals in the current administration who are in denial about global warming should be required to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. IJS.
Timelies all!
I have gotten all my holiday shopping done. Yay. Today I will watch eps of Samurai Jack, pay some bills and read fanfic.(Currently working my way through the archives of sga_flashfic)
Be sure to check out Shalott & Sperenza's Rumble video, Sheryl.
JZ and I slept in on a cold and rainy San Francisco morning. We've consumed oatmeal and cappucino, and now we are trying to imitate the face of the boxing cat recently featured on The Colbert Reporrr.
Damn. Certain individuals in the current administration who are in denial about global warming should be required to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. IJS.
I love this comment and want to marry it.
Ooh, I wanna live in New Zealand....
Santas go on rampage in New Zealand
40 drunken Claus imposters storm through city, wreaking ‘Santarchy’
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A group of 40 people dressed in Santa Claus costumes, many of them drunk, rampaged through New Zealand’s largest city, robbing stores and assaulting security guards, police said Sunday.
The rampage, dubbed “Santarchy” by local newspapers, began early Saturday afternoon when the men, wearing ill-fitting Santa costumes, threw beer bottles and urinated on cars from an Auckland overpass, said Auckland Central Police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty.
She said the men then rushed through a central city park, overturning garbage containers, throwing bottles at passing cars and spraying graffiti on buildings.
I'n trying to decide if "Santarchy" is a good word. I mean, it's clever, but I'm not sure how smoothly it slides off the tongue...
What they needed was rioting Spanish-guitar-rock Santas. Then it would have been Santanarchy!
Hee! We need this to happen, just so we can use the word "Santanarchy."
That sounds like a Cacophony Society event. They do something like that in SF (though less rampage-y).
