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Reason #9237671 that the Girl Scouts are superior to the Boy Scouts in every possible way (you know, besides being about acceptance and empowerment of women rather than paramilitary training and homophobia): a couple of Girl Scouts in Michigan are refusing to sell the signature (delicious) cookies because they use palm oil, which is environmentally unsustainable and also bad for orangutan populations!  Badass, ladies, seriously badass...but fundamentally unsurprising because the Girl Scouts are not about conformity and unquestioning obedience to authority figures!  (Via Jezebel.)

(Seriously, though, tasty Girl Scout cookies, let's quit with the palm oil, mmkay?  I would like to eat some without feeling, you know, shitty.)

This is unrelated, but I have been meaning to say, I saw the most disturbing thing in my officeplex parking lot the other day!  A couple of crows flew off carrying a baby squirrel!  I am kinda scarred for life, I think.

Just such a busy bee, I haven't had a moment, but here's a few quick things to shout at:

• Peter Sagal (of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me fame -- someday I will have Carl Kassell's voice on my home answering machine, as God is my witness!) had great commentary semi-recently on the sexism of Horton Hears a Who.
• OMG, Chris Matthews is insaaaane.  Seriously.  Insane.  I feel like he is too insane for me to even get worked up about, most of the time, but then I read this and wonder...
  

On this 40th anniversary of Dr. King's death at the Lorraine Motel, I'd advise you to read the text of his final speech in Memphis.

Someone asked me the other day if I was afraid of the chupacabra.  I said, "I'm not a goat, why would I be?  Goats are the ones who should be fucking scared of the chupacabra!"

Enjoying the recession?  OMG, me too.  What a blast.  I got my 401k statement a while back and was just like, "Man, this is so freaking great, who would have guessed I would ever have the opportunity to lose so very much money in such a short time!  Outside of going to Vegas and making some bad roulette decisions, that is."  I seriously can't wait until I get my 1st Q statement, that's just going to be sooo killer.

So in this time of corporate bailouts and middle class implosion, let us all take a few moments to appreciate the New Deal-era reforms that are keeping our economy outta the soup kitchen...for now anyway, since said reforms are under assault constantly by unscrupulous politicians with the interest of the hyper-wealthy in mind!  Ha ha ha, uhhhhhhhm.

(You know we have a giant brass bust of FDR at my house, right?)

Yeah, this is why I conside the time fro when hockey ends until when football begins the great sports drought.  Le sigh!

After reading The World Without Us, I've gotten mildly obsessed with the Voyager mission's Golden Record.  Did you guys know about this?  How did I miss this cool information?  It combines two of my very favorite things: doomsday scenarios and record geekery! 

I know for years, after I have had a few beers, I start ranting about NASA and how all that massive expenditure of taxpayer dollars was good for is memory foam and pens that write upside-down...but this is kinda rad.  For the record (ahem, Brett), I don't really feel like I need to edit my current "stock NASA rant" that much, though, because I always made an allowance for the Mars Rover mission and Hubble and all those deep space exploration things, so I'll just add this on.  My stance on the shuttle program still stands!  Suck it!

If you haven't read Digby's post from Sunday, you really should.  I am in 110% agreement.

I forgot to mention the beautiful flowers I got last week.  Spring has, technically, sprung, and this means my favorite flower is everywhere!  Tulips!

I also prefer Francoise Hardy to Marilyn Monroe, Mr. Ghesquiere!

Anyway.  I neglected to wish the war happy birthday, so I will end this undersized post with this image from the HuffPo's Nico Pitney: