Quickies
Skepchick Quickies 11.7
Happy birthday to Marie Curie, one of my favorite aloof and brilliant scientists.
- Extremist Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders agree: Gay marriage caused Hurricane Sandy – I agree, natural disasters are caused by things that I disagree with! Like green peppers in anything. From CriticalDragon1177.
- An Inquiring Nation Wants to Know: ‘Who Is Running for President?’ – These must be the people that voted for Roseanne Barr (in Florida, no less!).
- Will Sandy Bring a Baby Boom or Baby Bust? – “How disasters change marriage, divorce, and birth rates.”
- Boulder church leaves anti-abortion display up in front of polling place – From Stacey.
- How Other Animals Choose Their Leaders
Mary,
That story about how animals choose their leaders really makes me glad I’m not a honey bee.
Don’t whales also choose leaders? They weren’t mentioned in that article.
Grand Lunar,
Come to think about it, I think you maybe correct. I wonder why they didn’t at least mention whales.
wait, you don’t like green pepper? you and i are done professionally.
I still like spicy peppers though!
well… i suppose that’s okay.
WHAT DID GREEN PEPPER EVER DO TO YOU?!
Green peppers smell and taste bad. Blech. I don’t like any bell peppers for that matter.
Remind me never to serve you stuffed pepper. :)
I can smell it a mile away. The worst is when a stray pepper from my husband’s half of a pizza sneaks its way onto my side. The while slice is tainted!
Mary,
Anti Green Pepper Bigot! :)
That’s a shame you don’t like red peppers – they are essntial when I make pizzas – for the crunchy texture mainly. Though my wife would agree to a degree cos she hates the green ones too.
I am glad to see that for once I’m not the only one off topic today!
On the “Who is running for president” article – folks seem to think this was regarding independents and minor parties and it got me thinking – How did they go in this election?
I saw on TV a lineup with Jill Stein, a Libertarian and some other guy who sounded interesting but missed the detail.
I reckon some good minor parties such as the Greens could do a lot of good for the US – if they could get their vote up to say 10% then they could be in a position of real influence.
In Oz we seem to like this scenario where none of the major parties gets too big a majority and becomes too arrogant.
It’s a nice thought, but going to the Green party website, their list of officeholders includes Soil and Water commissioners and a few City Council members.
I can’t figure out why the party wastes money on a futile presidential campaign, or even governor races. They’ve started with local offices, now get some people into state houses and senates. That’s how you make changes, not by getting .3% in the national election.
Yes, exactly. I had a bit of a dig around after making that comment and, yeah, most of the minors were under 1% in the senate – in the house, zip.
I guess it will remain difficult for minor parties until you get a preferential voting system in the US.