Drew Curtis of Fark notes in his article that while the total Swine Flu death-count recently dropped from 18 to just 7, roughly 100 people die daily from the regular flu, the one we don't panic over.
I'm just saying, maybe, maybe, just maybe, it's because it came from Mexico. Drug wars, chaos, whathaveyou.
BBC News released this story today claiming that pollution helps fight global warming.
Helps? The claim that haze and smog diffuse sunlight, allowing a greater dispersion of sunlight to leaves may be true, if accurate.
What I can't believe is that this is seen as helping.
Most environmental issues have positives and negatives, but helping implies an overall improving of the situation; helping a man with a flat tire out by buying him a Coke doesn't do shit.
I mean, I like Steampunk as much as the next guy, which is to say, about as much as an M&M that fell on the floor (a quick bite if no one's watching) but this D-bag, well....he doesn't even have a hot chick.
The family of Martin Luther King is charging the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation more than $750,000 to use his words and likeness. They claim funds likely intended for their MLK charity are being pocketed by, shocker, other charities!
Oy, Greenpeace! Those people were motivated by me to donate, so, you know, I'm gonna need that $130 bucks, you know, whenever you get the chance...