Lies, Damned Lies, and Commercials

Have you seen the commercial with the guy who's trying to quit saying:

For me, it's more than a habit.

As if people need a patch to quit walking the dog or brushing their teeth a certain way.

Of course smoking is more than a habit. It's a drug addiction. Saying that it's more than a habit "for me" implies that for someone else, it's just a bad habit, like chewing with their mouth open.

Hero.

"She looked over at me and started screaming for help," VanKuren said. The woman also screamed "help" at two other people in the parking lot who looked at her and walked away.

VanKuren didn't.

(h/t MVRWC (bamapachyderm))

The Story Is:

"Wha? Na, see ossifer, I was just on my way to get my drivers license when dis odder guy here stuck his truck bed inta my lane."

(via Classical Values)

Fossil Find Raises Global Cooling Fears

The area around Illinois was once a tropical swamp, according to a new fossil find.

The climate was ever wet, hot, and humid," said Scott D. Elrick, geologist with the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS).

"The modern-day equivalent would be some of the peat swamps of Indonesia."

Could this mean the Earth is growing colder, and will soon be too cold to inhabit? Why can't the government do something? We've only got a few million years before The End.