How many eggs does a mammal have to lay to get some attention around here?
Those damn platypodes always hog the puggle limelight. As commenter jl notes, someone needs to speak up for the echidna, the forgotten monotreme.
Open Thread – Crazy, mixed up echidna
the fugitive uterus
I do not want an echidna on my pants!
good morning!
also, I do not approve of the exploitation of monotremes in general! where will it end??
TheMightyTrowel
Echidna? I barely know her!
NotMax
Always happy to see one or two of these spiders in the domicile, as they eat the roaches and other nasties. :)
TheMightyTrowel
@NotMax: 2 weeks after moving down under I watched a huntsman car surf at 80km/h for 25 minutes. In the end the driver pulled over and used a stick to chivvy it off the window. impressive feat. also, ICK.
the fugitive uterus
Mitt says, “what if the federal gov’t was the sole supplier of cell phones?” blah, blah, blah – Apps Czar – blah, blah, blah
MikeJ
BBC is showing Pat Robertson’s BFF testifying at Den Haag right now. Charles Taylor says that since he apologized to the Liberian people they should let bygones be bygones.
Narcissus
Eww, man.
Schlemizel
echidna because eh like na
.
I realize its early so translation for those foolish enough to read BJ before coffee
I kid na because I like na
the fugitive uterus
Great news from Kristine on another thread! Those angels, Thymzone and Rome Again, will be taking IrishGirl’s kitty!
YAAAAAAAAY! happy times!
everyone tell them how effing awesome they are!
the fugitive uterus
really, is that all republicans can do is whine, cry, masturbate, complain and lie?
to quote Patsy Stone. “Oh for God’s sake, just go ahead and die!”
WereBear
@the fugitive uterus: I am so relieved. I’m sure IrishGirl is too. I have also lost a house; had to find homes for 2 dogs and 8 cats.
Southern Beale
EEEEK!
OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!
Joseph Nobles
Just found out Tim Minchin is going to be playing Judas in the new London revival of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Linda Featheringill
@Schlemizel:
Not to worry. I understood it the first time through. Or maybe the second time.
eh lik na tu
:-)
Linda Featheringill
By the way, Sarah, Rex in the video is such a cutie!
Raven
I like echidna’s verde!
Ash Can
Squeee!
Yutsano
IT’Z A BEBEH ECHIDNA!!
I think the platypus has better marketers is what it is hon.
And FYWP, I wasn’t done with my comment yet.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: Shouldn’t you be surgerizing?
Also too, venomous and duck-billed > ant-eating and toothless. Just saying.
MattF
Krugman does the necessary on a certain NYT columnist:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/thing-falls-apart/
Nethead Jay
I just love the “Sic em Rex” clip :)
Villago Delenda Est
@the fugitive uterus:
For one thing, we’d have one standard that would allow people to switch networks without changing hardware, much to the disgust of the CEOs of the various wireless services, as it would cut into their hookers and booze slush funds.
Linda Featheringill
For those who have old people they care about:
I found a medical description of dementia.
If you forget something, even if you have difficulty findings words, but remember it a few minutes later, you’re forgetful. Your brain failed to find the desired item on its first search.
The brain of someone with dementia might also fail to find the target on the first try. But the demented brain doesn’t conduct repeated searches, doesn’t continue looking. It just drops the whole search and goes off to think about something else. Tra-la-la.
You’re welcome.
Your forgetful commenter. :-)
Suffern ACE
@the fugitive uterus: I’d assume that the rules would be written such that only heterosexual phone calls would count as in-network and every call by an inner-city black youth would somehow be a roaming call.
dmsilev
Oh my.
(via)
MattF
@dmsilev: Did I hear someone say “grassy knoll”?
Linda Featheringill
@dmsilev:
“Dreams . . . ”
That is just too funny.
Aside from the sheer fantasy of it all, why do they care who his daddy was? Political opinions are not genetically encoded, are they?
But of course you don’t care about genetics if you think that all science is suspect.
NotMax
Good news. About 25 years tardy, but good news nonetheless.
Eight Automakers Agree on Standardized Electric Vehicle Charging
handsmile
@MattF: (#20)
Oh my, Krgthulu brutally shaves the Moustache in that post; thanks for the link! It’s so good as to be un-excerptable: each and every sentence is lethal.
He seems to take an especial delight in defenestrating his fellow NYT op-ed columnists. Chunky BoBo must be grateful that he is simply beneath Krugman’s pitiless gaze.
The wingnut hive has quickly infested the comments section there. General Stuck appears as well however to fight the good fight.
As long as Krugman continues to write such pieces, he refutes Yeats’ in “The Second Coming” that “the best lack all conviction.” He battles valiantly against the “rough beast.”
Freddie deBoer
I’m in favor of all Balloon Juice monotreme efforts.
canuckistani
You can’t call them forgotten when they get a mention in the They Might be Giants song “Mammal”.
Nutella
@MikeJ:
We must all look forward, not backward.
Nutella
I don’t remember seeing this about Sully when it happened in 2009. Nice to have friends in high places.
I like how indignant the federal prosecutor got when the judge called out their corruption. The nerve of that judge to even mention equality before the law!
via @nignog63
Mnemosyne
@dmsilev:
I’m not sure the birthers have thought this through since right now, the only halfway viable claim they have is that the problem with the president’s citizenship is that his father was not an American citizen. If they’re now saying that his real father was an American citizen, then he’s 100% American and they just wasted 4 years screaming about his birth certificate.