I guess dogs aren’t immune to chemical dependency.  Check this out.  The dog began licking toxic toads for the hallucinogenic properties of their skin.  She was addicted!  It was the dirty family secret.  You’ve got to read the article because it’s really funny.

Letting Go of God: A one-woman play by Julia Sweeney.  Read the review.  I’d love to see the show because her story sounds all too familiar.

A new study suggests moderate drinking of alcohol might improve memory.  That’s in addition to the one I saw on the news the other night that said men should drink two cocktails per day in order to lower bad and raise good cholesterol levels, and thereby reduce the risk of heart disease (in that case, it must be part of an exercise program as well).  Yet more reason to drink.  Darn.

I and the Bird #35 is now available, so wing your way over there and get your avian fix.

Satiate your inner Doubting Thomas with the 46th Skeptics’ Circle.

You have to wonder sometimes how people make a living when they obviously have far too much time on their hands.  A scientist has published a mathematical proof showing vampires can’t exist since they’d have converted the entire human race by now.  What a bonehead.  Didn’t he see or read Interview With the Vampire?  Doesn’t he know getting bitten doesn’t always mean conversion?

Anal jokes aside, did you know Uranus has a dark spot?  I can’t help but giggle like a school child being told his first “dirty” joke.  Still, it’s true.  Go and look; you’ll see it’s right there like the article says.

The largest fossil yet has been found of the so-called ‘terror bird.’  “An ancient meat-eating [bird] discovered in northern Patagonia has a record-breakingly large head — but the big beast could still sprint for its prey. The fossil discovery is the largest documented example of a group of fearsome birds called phorusrhacids, flightless carnivores that roamed South America some 60 million to 2 million years ago. The birds earned the moniker ‘terror birds’ because of their impressive stature and carnivorous palate. They could tower up to 3 metres in height — far larger than an ostrich — and had huge, hooked beaks for gouging their prey.”

Another evolutionary question answered: How did the earliest flowering plants spread so quickly?  “Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered the oldest bee ever known, a 100 million year old specimen preserved in almost lifelike form in amber, and an important link to help explain the rapid expansion of flowering plants during that distant period.”

This is the reason I don’t like Hillary Clinton and would not support her for president and would absolutely vote against her in any election where I had the chance.  She’s a flip-flopping partisan back-stabber who goes with the tide rather than standing her ground.  She’s always supported anti-gay movements and suddenly finds herself needing to switch positions, so that’s precisely what she did.  Can you say cuntasaurus electus?

Oh, by the way, it’s also why I won’t support Al Gore in any future election.  He also supported the legal retraction of rights for gays and only much later decided he should pretend that never happened.  He’s an asshole who would have been a terrible president.  Now, he’s just an asshole who will never deserve my vote—for anything.  (Although I still support his efforts on the environment and global warming.)