Friday Ephemera

Lizards capable of attracting atomic waves… I know where this leads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_UU9LDVQxA
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/pesticide-resistant-mutant-super-rats-taking-over-england/
A solution presents itself:

On a different note, I’m surprised this hasn’t come up here yet:
http://observer.com/2018/02/new-report-reveals-jeremy-corbyn-was-a-communist-spy-in-1980s/

A solution presents itself:
Alas, I perceive no solution:-(.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/pesticide-resistant-mutant-super-rats-taking-over-england/
I have yet to see the article that claims that mutant super rats have become resistant to stock variety cats.

A lot of cats won’t take on a rat, with good reason. What you need is a Jack Russell terrorist or some similar dog.
When I was a kid, we had a beagle who de-moled our huge lawn, not typical beagle behavior. Even more atypical, she never ate one, just played with them. She looked perfectly beagl-y.

AFTER Lent (I shouldn’t be on here right now, but the flesh is weak), I am thinking about starting a book blog. I am sure you will, reasonably, ask why the world needs another female book blogger. Well, the reasons are:
—I read almost everything BUT chick lit. I have close to 1,000 books on my Kindle and not one of them has been, probably never will be, featured on Oprah’s book club.
—I’m old and can thus alert the young to literary treasures from before their time, such as Hal Borland’s “Beyond Your Doorstep.”
Would any of you be interested in a Pogonip book blog?

You never know what you’ll get…
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/pilot-forced-make-emergency-landing-12038181

Most cats won’t take on rats…. Others are made of sterner stuff.
Yep, feral cats most definitely will. When I lived in San Diego, about 20 years ago, I was in the Gaslamp Quarter, the old harbor front (now a tourist spot, like Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco). There was still a fish market and produce market there then (so roaches were a constant nuisance). One night, walking home from a bar crawl*, I spotted probably the largest rat I’d ever seen, and the only one I’d seen there. A marveled at it for moment, until a cat, barely larger than the rat, pounced on it and made quick work of it, then dragged it off behind the building. I then understood why I never saw any rats (quite unlike when I lived in Las Vegas).
(*I’ve never been a heavy drinker, so it was “one beer per bar”, and I wasn’t actually drunk, just a little tipsy.)
Also, I believe San Diego had an “NVR” (Neuter, Vaccinate, Release) program at the time to deal with feral cats, rather than eliminating them – because they were so good at controlling rodents.

You know that feeling when you’re a Witch and you fancy going out on your broomstick? Well, you can’t in Swaziland.
When will the hatred end?

Tim Harford covered the light price history in his excellent podcast:
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-low/proto/http/vpid/p04lp7tm.mp3

Remembering the Food Poisoning Horror Show of last November, I think all toilets should come with a self-destruct. It would save a lot of time.
This is what you get when you eat those pickled eggs.

Most cats won’t take on rats…. Others are made of sterner stuff.
I have a friend who raises Angora goats in Kansas. She has barn cats (not exactly feral but not house cats otherwise) who control the rodents who look on barns as rat-heaven and a few LGDs (livestock guardian dogs)… huge breeds who start living with the goats as puppies so they imprint on the herd and aren’t house dogs. They chase off, or even kill, coyotes.

Are they hipsters, or are they immigrant gangsters?
Not likely the former…
It appears that the three days and nights of fighting and brawling began with someone’s shoe being stepped on. The twenty-three passengers (“of an extended family”) booted from the ship are described by authorities as being “from Melbourne”, but were also reported by fellow passengers as “going after the Aussies”.
Hmm…
[ side eye ]

When will these head/desk moments cease?
Right, “…a student group was formed to protest too many white males eating at the campus “Little Pub.””

According to the group’s description, PUB POWER aims to “have as many women possible attend pub lunch in order to dismantle [the] hegemony and reclaim the space as open to all.”

Open to all except, apparently, “…white, upper class, able-bodied males…”

Although the group acknowledges that any detrimental actions or tendencies of the white, upper class, and able-bodied men who tend to frequent Pub Lunch may be “unintentional”…

Gosh, that is mighty white big of you.

…the group asserts that their dominance over the space “makes women, alongside other LGBTQIA+ and POC members of our community feel inferior, unwelcomed, and outnumbered.”

Your histrionics and inferiority complex are not their fault, buttercup.

Hopefully not posted here already, I present the Furby Organ:
*Shudders*. I’m not one for trigger warnings or safe spaces, but on opening that link I had a horrible flashback to Christmas Day 1997, when I, as a six year old, opened one of my presents to find the terrifying visage of a Furby staring up at me. What neither I, nor my parents realised, was the batteries my father had put in it were almost flat. The combination of the look of this frightening thing and the electronic banshee scream followed by a slow, stretched out “Fuuuuuurrrrrbbbbyyyyyyy” it emitted when I turned it on, sent me running and screaming in terror from the drawing room. Even today, that noise is one of the most chilling things I’ve heard in my life. *Shudders for a second time*.

How on earth did my correction get posted before my main comment, when I typed it and sent it after?
I was just asking myself the same question.

@Darleen & Farnsworth
Query how many white males is “too many?” What does the ration need to be between non-white males/everybody else for everyone else to feel “safe?” Stated differently, how many non-white “others” do you need to take on and beat one white dude in a pub fight?
In other matters, aren’t those people who believes whites are superior to everyone else full of shit?

West sent lizards as nuclear spies, claims Iran defense official
“Try to be a little less than your frivolous self, 007, and pay attention.”

In other news, Democrats respond to a man whose daughter was killed in the Florida School shooting with their usual class:
http://twitter.com/Chet_Cannon/status/964234637760389121

Captain Nemo, rather.
[ smdh ]
I think my coffee is ready…

According to the group’s description, PUB POWER aims to “have as many women possible attend pub lunch in order to dismantle [the] hegemony and reclaim the space as open to all.”
Since pubs have been traditionally male “spaces” since forever, women cannot “reclaim” what was never “theirs”.
What’s really going on, of course, is simply a war against men and in fact every part of our culture which is not explicitly and aggressively left-wing.

Don’t be shy. Dip in.
The wizened appendages of those who have disappointed you over the years? Perpetrators of bad HTML in the comments, perhaps?

Good Lord, what is that stuff?

Also.

Note the clarity of the brine. Them’s quality eats.

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/russian-police-call-priests-to-exorcise-violent-poltergeist/
The poltergeist did not become violent until it tried the new whatever-those-are, after which it trashed the joint and flounced off to Russia in a huff.