What year is it? or Why Notre Dame is in the dark ages.

UPDATE:  The Observer Editorial team has posted a more offensive and off-mark "apology" on it's website  HERE

Now I like jokes.  And I like comics, and irreverent humor is a favorite, but this is beyond and way below that.  This appeared in a Notre Dame student paper:

From GLAAD:

"The cartoonist had posted on his blog – though it’s since been removed – his original version of the cartoon. In the original version, it shows that the punchline read, 'AIDS' instead of 'A baseball bat.' The paper, he reported, preferred 'not to make light of fatal diseases.' The Observer made a dangerously misguided decision that promoting violence was somehow superior to making fun of HIV/AIDS."

The text, in case you can't read it:  "What's the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?  No idea.  A baseball bat.

Classy, Notre Dame.  I thought the youth were more enlightened.  I guess they're also morons.

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Get your Green Goo OUT.

Find out what this sludge is . . .

Olbermann's Reply to Limbaugh and Roberston

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F is for Filibuster! or The Matter with Parliamentary Procedure

Ok, all it takes to stop a bill (like healthcare reform) from passing in our illustrious US Senate are:

the Senators from the 20 least-populated states (that's 10.2 percent of the country's population)

 . . .  and ONE OTHER GUY.

Yep, 41 Senators is all it takes for a filibuster to blow a bill out of the water. 

Great system.  I'm going to go let some blood and burn some witches now . . . because those systems still seem fine to me too.

Furious.

Racism loud and clear from the voice of the Right

As if we needed further evidence that Rush Limbaugh is pure evil, we have this from dailykos:

Robertson: Haiti had a pact with the Devil

This is why he must be given a show on Comedy Central; but laugh though we must, THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of Americans listen and love him.  Now that's funny!!

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Stupid is the new black. (also the new pink, blue and green)

Any New Yorker who has hurried through subway connections this week, huddled against the cold weather, has seen these at every turn:

and I can't help but think that we've hit a new low. 

BE STUPID . . . do Americans need a reminder?

New Yorkers! Dump your electronics the green way this Saturday.

If you're in the NYC area, and you have any of this:

  . . . bring them to TekServe (teamed with the Lower East Side Ecology Center) for free collection and recycling.  Like this:

They do it every year, and it protects air, soil and water from insane levels of toxins

"The components in many electronics can be incredibly hazardous to the environment - contributing up to 70% of the toxins found in landfills - so it's important that they are properly recycled. Find out more through our links to articles on computer recycling. Sponsored collection events, like this one, are one of the easiest ways to properly dispose of your old gadgets in NYC. Due to funding constraints, the city's electronics recycling events and the Build It Green electronics drop-off program have been suspended."

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Avatar (a favorite with me) Slammed by Vatican.

Gimme a break. HERE

"In a recent World Day of Peace message, the pontiff warned against any notions that equate human person and other living things. He said such notions "open the way to a new pantheism tinged with neo-paganism, which would see the source of man's salvation in nature alone."

Ugh.

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GREEN SHIPS! How cool! Props to . . . uh . . . History?

Ok this seems pretty innovative.  This British company is building Wind-Powered ships (imagine?) in an old ship-building district (bringing new jobs), making them out of recycled steel, firing the steel with torrefied wood (no fossil carbon), and launching them to ferry a coal-replacing fuels (biomass, torrefied wood pellets)!  I love them!  Go ships!

"Torrefied wood pellets produce more energy per unit by volume than conventional wood pellets, and can be readily co-fired with coal without the need for retrofitting or altering the ovens in any way. It has even been suggested that torrefied pellets could eventually replace coal, allowing power plants to become entirely "green power" facilities. Rather than shutting down "dirty" coal plants, operators could simply add torrefied pellets to the normal coal load, until they are able to replace coal altogether."

More on Torrefied Wood HERE

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