Heeey! Congrats! "One of our favorite bloggers." Nice.

Simply awesome. I need more of those Jesus scented candles.

Is this weird to anyone else? They are trained to act cute and dance together. Usually, these animals are territorial and don't make contact underwater unless it is through a threat or an attack. I really wonder if they want to be close to each other. I wonder if one is thinking, "I hate this guy but there's good fish in this gig."

Ajan - Bush tap dancing while people are getting killed for a war we didn't need and borrowed hundreds of billions for made me so angry, word don't exist that could be put in a post. And Miss C, Yep, I'm happy too that she recovered. It is just head slapping why some people must feel that the only reason she could have possibly recovered is because of angels. It's like we are promoting stupidity in this country. Oh wait, Bush tapdancing. Yep. We do promote stupidity in this country. Sheesh. I need bacon.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! It's monster Siphonophore MADNESS!!

Turbo Extreeme to the max. Dang. I heart biology.

Dave, the miraculous is so hard to believe because there is no rational reason behind it. We have professional people here who do things based on fact. There are no wizards here. Miracles created by "a" god are fiction. Wishful thinking will not change that.

I love it how people claim that "she was saved be angels" when other people are praying over their kids who die. If this is the case then the God that people say exists willfully, consciously decides that some "innocent" children will live and some innocent children are going to die. So, if one agrees with that, one could cay that God murders children. Unless there was no angel there at all. I love Colleen's (the mother) declaration that it was an angel that saved her daughter. I'll await the proof on this or maybe "she just knows it in her heart". I'm sure that would stand up in court. Look. If you can't prove it, and you have nothing to back it up, don't declare that something is true. Your daughter recovered. Don't make up delusional explaining why. If a bunch of ants walked over her bed before she recovered, would you say that the ants (or ant god) did it?

To quote the Princess Bride: Plato. Socrates. Aristotle. Morons.

err, isopods. For the want of an "edit your post" button.

Mmmmm delicious idopods. Actually, you will see a great similarity to pillbugs or sow bugs here. Go a little farther and you'll see a similarity to horseshoe crabs. You've looking at some of the oldest creatures on earth, ones whose lineage has survived several world wide mass extinctions. Including that of the dinosaurs.

Oh and if they look up when it is raining, water falls into their nose holes.

All animals are not beautiful - not even in that way. The truth about nature is that most animals die of starvation, disease or by being eaten alive. Nature is a ferocious place and many of the creatures in it are not meant to appeal to our standards. It can be however, completely fantastic to study.

That woman needs therapy.

Icy Hill. Benny Hill. I don't see the connection.
(Yes, sarcasm was intended).
Awesome.

USA-USA. Please stop being stupid. Obviously, you have no education in population dynamics and resource allocation. Rock on with your blind faith and patriotism in all that is USA is AWESOME!. I hate the Duggars because their blind faith in religion is making 18 more preprogrammed idiots. If you love blind faith in religion over reason, why don't you vote for Bush one more time? 600 + BILLION in Iraq and the never even had WMD. Get your head out of the sand man. Travel out of the US once and a while. It will do us some good.