BEARSCARE

Remember some months ago when they de-throned Pluto from planet-hood? Remember how everybody complained? That really irritated me. Pluto isn’t, and never was, a planet. Pluto is a sham. Well, today I was listening to the Kojo Nnamdi Show* on my favorite public radio station and they were talking about the moons of Saturn and somehow they brought up “poor, old Pluto”. Poor Pluto? This has GOT to stop. Pluto is a biggish, cold rock and has no business orbiting OUR Sun.

I say we blow the blasted thing up. Let’s just fire a few ICBMs at it and be done with it. No more discussion. No more “but Pluto is a planet too”. We can just be free to live our lives in peace without having to worry about that con-rock. I blame Clyde Tombaugh. He invented that planet and the myth of the cute, lonely little planet that made kids so upset when real astronomers realized it wasn’t a planet at all.

You know what else? We don’t even have decent pictures of Pluto. Look at this one from Wikipedia:

Are you kidding me? And I bet if we don’t get rid of Pluto, some day its orbit will change to a collision course with Earth. Pluto is just an asteroid. Asteroids kill–that’s their purpose and Pluto is no different.

*It wasn’t actually Kojo doing the show. I don’t know where he was or what his problem is, but it was some other guy filling in for him.

This is pretty great and the only thing I don’t like about it is that it didn’t happen to me. Some dude was just blazing down the road (in Texas) when he peeped a sweet alligator on the side of the road. Homeboy then somehow places that alligator in the back seat of his car and sets off to find it a new home. I guess he got pulled over for speeding or something (I really wasn’t paying attention when watching until the alligator showed up) and the cops found the ancient reptile* in the car and filmed it. Pretty nuts hard if you ask me.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TekZjhIKRk]

*This alligator is probably fairly young. I only meant that alligators/crocodiles are pretty old. I mean those puppies were around when dinosaurs ruled the Earth instead of us humans. Sharks are pretty old too. Mosquitoes too (remember Jurassic Park?).

Have you ever gotten a moonburn? If you’ve never asked yourself that question, then you may well have. See, moonburns don’t hurt the way sunburns do. But they’re much worse and the long-term consequences are devastating. Fortunately, I recently started this website:

http://www.moonscreen.info

You need to put this stuff on your skin every day to protect yourself.

Sorry for no updates this week. Don’t worry–I’m fine. I’ve just been busy.

It’s pretty late, so that’s enough for now. Time for this bear to hibernate.

I was just directed to “Let’s Be Friends“, a blog where users post photographs of unusual animal friendships. I immediately searched for any friendships in involving bears, but found none. This is a great website nonetheless and everyone should give it a peep.

I was looking for good pictures of Kodiak Bears today and I ran across this link. Every last one of those cowards deserves to get eaten by a bear for this.