I didn’t see a single cicada while in NY/CT this past several days, but this is funny as heck anyway (thanks for the link, Craig!). Here’s a sample:
Do Cicadas make that loud buzzing sound to attract a mate? No, that is a common myth. Our research indicates that sound is actually a battle cry that roughly translates as Kill the Humans. When you hear that sound, take cover! It means the killing spree is about to begin.
Courtesy of Cicadaville. Now go read the rest and enjoy.
And to end the day, a bit of bad news.
‘Babylon 5’ actor Richard Biggs dies.
It’s sad when talent passes too soon.
Kudos to Atrios (most days, my favorite blog) for pointing me to this Krugman Quote of the Day on jobs:
In April, the economy added 288,000 jobs. If you do the math, you discover that President Bush needs about four years of job growth at last month’s rate to reach what his own economists consider full employment.
The bottom line, then, is that Mr. Bush’s supporters have no right to complain about the public’s failure to appreciate his economic leadership. Three years of lousy performance, followed by two months of good but not great job growth, is not a record to be proud of.
A nice flight home. I’m pooped.
POTUS gives his latest speech in about 2 hours. I’ll be out to dinner with some family members & will thankfully miss it. Given what’s been proposed to the UN today, it’s pretty easy to guess what will be in the speech tonight anyway.
Instead, here’s a nice article by Carl Bernstein about why Bush must go, and why the GOP need to get off their collective butts and do the kicking. Not that they’re likely to do so.
Daily Kos catches the Bush team in another lie – this time, about why Bush did a face plant while out on a bicycle ride.
In short, when asked why Bush fell, White House spin control droid Trent Duffy said: “It’s been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose.”
There hasn’t been significant rain in Crawford TX in 10 days.
It’s so stupid and trivial, that on the one hand, you might think, ‘Who cares?’. On the other hand, why would you lie about something so trivial, and so easy to catch as a lie, unless you have no respect whatsoever for the truth?
I know there’s a war on and that there’s a lot more to get upset about in this country than why our presidnet fell off his bicycle. But this is symptomatic of the crisis our country is in. If you can’t trust the White House Press Office to tell the truth about something so trivial as this, how can you trust them about anything they say?