A Greenpeace activist was recently arrested for protesting in front of the US Department of the Interior while wearing an awesome polar bear fursuit. He was trying to draw attention to the Bush Administration’s delay in issuing a final Endangered Species Act listing for the polar bear due to global warming.
Awesome! Perhaps we could begin arresting the real animals for causing all this trouble. I mean, concern for their well being is really affecting the profits of the big oil regimes - that’s gotta be illegal. And polar bears? What have those fish mongers ever done for us? (Just kidding - polar bears are the rock stars of Arctic animals.)
Every week it seems there is new evidence that the sea ice is melting and that the polar bear’s habitat is disappearing. The U.S. Geological Survey released a report this past September predicting that if current warming projections continue, two-thirds of the world’s polar bears will likely be extinct by 2050, including all of the polar bears in Alaska. With a timeline like that, it is hard to understand how the polar bears aren’t already protected.
Check out the video!
It’s quite clever. But, oh! do I ever want that polar bear costume.
The things that PETA reports on are so over the top that it’s almost difficult to believe them. Humans have always been cruel. Cruelty is in our genes. But to industrialize and thereby monetize such cruelty is a gift of the modern age. It’s making me sick to think about it (of course, thinking about it is exactly what they don’t want you to do).
Rob Zombie is cool, man. I listened to his records when I was young, but House of a 1000 Corpses scared the fuck out of me when I first seen it. Insane imagery.
The beetle was named for Orbison as it appears to be wearing a tuxedo. The now famous entomologists who discovered the thing noted that it’s also a hell of a singer.
The beetle, whose full name (pronounceable only by studied entomologists and Orbison fans) is Orectochilus orbisonorum, is a member of the whirligig family. Also, the rockin’ beetle, which likes to chill on the surface of calm waters, has some wicked awesome eyesight: it can see above and below the water at the same time (unconfirmed, though, is whether it can do so without its trademark dark glasses).
The beetle was discovered after the drunken entomologists heard ‘Crying’ coming from a nearby pond.
I love Peta - although my geographical location makes it quite difficult to maintain a meat-free diet (and I therefore don’t, sadly). Their new online game is entirely awesome.
Don’t like fur? Don’t like the anorexic Olsen twins? This site is for you! Peta lets you dress up the child stars in all their favorite fur products. Below you’ll see my own attempt (I can’t remember which famous twit I chose), featuring some Mangled Possum Ear Muffs, a Dead Doggy Shoulder Bag and some Butchered Beaver boots, among other murderous fashion statements. Her zombie eyes follow the cursor and the blood drips in real time! Great fun.
I don’t like pets too much. Until an animal comes into this world that can discuss the relative merits of Kant’s Categorical Imperative or the conceptual implications of Duchamp’s Network of Stoppages, I don’t see myself bringing a creature into my home (I suppose, by the above criteria, I can’t be considered a people person, either).
But I would also consider a glow-in-the-dark cat, which may soon be available from your local pet store (well, at least my local pet store).
Korean scientists, Buddha bless them, have produced ultravioletly illuminated cats by manipulating a “flourescent protein gene.” The Ministry of Science and Technology (whom I suspect is running the country, given the technological state of things here in Korea) said,
The ability to produce cloned cats with the manipulated genes is significant as it could be used for developing treatments for genetic diseases and for reproducing model (cloned) animals suffering from the same diseases as humans.
That is fine and good, but it is a statement that hides the true goals of the experiment: Korean wives are growing bored of merely dressing up and dying their toy pets and have been secretly pressuring the government for gmed products! And the League of Unemployed and Bored Korean Housewives is a lobby that gets results. I want my mutant pet!
One morning as Gregor Samsa woke from anxious dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, vaulted abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections.
From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.
