ESPN plans Spanish language sports network I’m …

ESPN plans Spanish language sports network

I’m just upset that they aren’t going to call it ESPÑol.

Disturbing Search Requests For the Ichthypundit …

Disturbing Search Requests For the Ichthypundit

Google Search: buy channidae online

“Channidae” is the family that includes the Dreaded Chinese Snakehead Walking Fish. Which is illegal in most of the country now…

Sessions announces domestic violence grant That…

Sessions announces domestic violence grant

That’s nice. Interesting to see that even with an enormous lead, he’s still running hard and spreading the pork. But we could use the money and it’s a good cause.

FOXSports.com | U.S. advances to finals at World B…

FOXSports.com | U.S. advances to finals at World Basketball Championship

Hey, the men may have crashed and burned, but we can still get excited about the women’s team, right? Right?

Mother arraigned in video beating; lawyer says she…

Mother arraigned in video beating; lawyer says she will probably plead for mercy

I have an idea: Let’s show her mercy in the same way she showed love to her daughter. It’s for her own good, really. It hurts us more than it hurts her. We wouldn’t do it if we didn’t love her so much!

Storm Isidore Leaves Mexico a Mess Isidore! Cl…

Storm Isidore Leaves Mexico a Mess

Isidore! Clean up your room!

Dead fish tied to policy flaws It’s all Bush’s …

Dead fish tied to policy flaws

It’s all Bush’s fault! (Another version of this story has a “Scientists blame Bush for salmon deaths” headline.)

Anyway, I remember posting a long time back, probably on the old blog, about the Klamath River situation. There was a report issued saying (basically) that there was no evidence that salmon did worse when the water levels were low than when they were high. Conservatives decided that this meant that it didn’t make any difference and that water should be diverted ASAP. The report didn’t say that — rather, it said that research couldn’t support water diversion causing a problem. There’s quite a jump to saying that water diversion couldn’t cause a problem.

That didn’t stop the Bushites, who decided to give more water to farmers. This isn’t a situation where it’s just protecting an endangered species or a habitat. Salmon fishing is big business. I am utterly convinced that given the choice of supporting a business that relies on a healthy environment and one that will hurt the environment, the Bush Administration will always choose the latter. I think Gale Norton, in particular, hates nature.

When I have Gale’s job in the Simon Administration, there will be three main changes. One will be the conversion of the Department of the Interior to an Interior Ministry along Soviet lines, including a national police force. Second will be the new policy of Conservative Environmentalism, which will encourage the use of resources but will not allow the permanent destruction of something replaceable for minimal gain.. Third will be the enforcement of laws we already have, via the means described under change one. Once a few polluters and exploiters go missing, the rest will fall in line pretty quickly.

Charlotte Observer | 09/24/2002 | Doctors say West…

Charlotte Observer | 09/24/2002 | Doctors say West Nile also causing polio

Well, polio-like symptoms. I’m not a doctor, nor do I play on on TV, but it seems to me that if it’s not caused by the poliomyelitis virus (extinct, in the United States anyway) or even a related virus, it’s not polio. But it certainly adds another reason for fear. The good news is that a West Nile vaccine might be only three years away. They got a head start because WN is related to yellow fever and they can build on the vaccine for that.

Okay, that does it. Some rat bastard isn’t just s…

Okay, that does it. Some rat bastard isn’t just sending out spam using my domain name, he’s sending out a virus.

Yahoo! News – Gibson’s Movie to Use Lost Languages…

Yahoo! News – Gibson’s Movie to Use Lost Languages

Mel’s doing a version of the last hours of the life of Christ using dead languages. As in Latin and Aramaic. Actually, I think Aramaic is still a living language, but it’s certainly not at all well. Some idiot was reporting “Arabic”, which would have been wrong. And actually, I think Latin is wrong too; I’m pretty sure that the “Romans” occupying Palestine were more likely to speak Greek, but maybe I’m wrong there. Jesus and his disciples certainly used Aramaic as their everyday language, though they probably knew Greek and at least some Hebrew.