Monday, December 6, 2010

"Problematically Short Penis"

HAH!  Got your attention, didn't I?

Actually that pretty much summed up my ex-wife's post-mortem of our marriage, which is why it caught my eye in this brief article about pandas and China's never--ending struggle to save them from extinction.

I saw a Panda one time at the big zoo in Beijing.  Once was enough.  It was the only one they displayed at the time (this was like 20 years ago), really old, and sat around doing what these three are doing.  Don't bother watching the whole thing; it's all the same.  In fact you can watch one for hours and it's pretty much this.



They depend exclusively on a plant subject to periodic die-offs.  They are literally too stupid to breed, and on those rare occasions when they do successfully breed they normally kill their young through further stupidity like forgetting to nurse them or just sitting on them.  Now I learn their junk is too small to get the job done.

Yeah sure, they're cute.  But at some point extinction starts to look like their own damn fault.

5 comments:

suek said...

It's always interesting to me that the same people who are strong advocates of evolutionary theory seem to be the ones who are so adamant about preventing the extinction of any presently existing species.

There seems to be an intrinsic contradiction of concepts there...

Which reminds me...how's Paulo doing these days???

John Venlet said...

The panda lovers are going to blacklist you, now, Joel. Sounds like your ex already did.

Mayberry said...

Heh. Some things are just meant to go extinct...

MamaLiberty said...

"But at some point extinction starts to look like their own damn fault."

Well, "fault" sort of requires the ability to act otherwise - make better choices, which doesn't seem to apply here.

I'd say that extinction starts to look like the logical outcome wonder how in the world they've survived this long at all.

Joel said...

Nonsense, ML! Didn't you go to public school? Extinction is ALWAYS our fault! Some greenie is probably trying to find a way to blame me for the Cretaceous die-off.

BTW, I can produce witnesses who'll swear I was out of town that day.