Fun with referrer logs I suppose it was one of …

Fun with referrer logs

I suppose it was one of my regular readers who came up with this one:

Google Search: warliberal “anti-semitism”

Cobb smooths flap: Schools can have peanut-free zo…

Cobb smooths flap: Schools can have peanut-free zones

A more than usually meddlesome school principal in Georgia had said that she was banning peanuts from her campus. The school district the next day said she wouldn’t and there could be “peanut free zones” if someone actually has an allergy. (She apparently didn’t even know if there was anyone who could be harmed by them.) What I’m taking from this is a continued reinforcement of my belief that the Dilbert Principle exists, and principals (excuse the pun) are among the beneficiaries. Every school principal I remember meeting has been either incompetent or a petty tyrant or both. I’m sure there are decent ones, I’m just saying I don’t recall meeting any.

Dushku Back In Buffy? Joss Whedon says yes, Eli…

Dushku Back In Buffy?

Joss Whedon says yes, Eliza Dushku will appear as Faith on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the upcoming season.

Man stable after being hit by leaping fish Jani…

Man stable after being hit by leaping fish

Janis Gore sends Terry Oglesby this story of a North Florida man, the latest victim of the spreading Giant Leaping Attack Sturgeon epidemic first revealed here on the recommendation of Karin Kross.

Confused yet?

Tired Of Walking Fish? Try Flying Snake I’m not…

Tired Of Walking Fish? Try Flying Snake

I’m not tired of the walking fish, but perhaps everyone else is. Still, a flying snake is pretty cool, even if it hasn’t invaded our shores (yet). The next in line would be a swimming bird, I think. In that case, we need to make sure no penguins get established in the North American ecosystem. They’re voracious.

UPDATE: Amish Tech Support is now your official Flying Asian Paradise Tree Snake Headquarters.

First Local West Nile Case This Year is Confirmed …

First Local West Nile Case This Year is Confirmed

Now there’s a West Nile case in DC. But I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about, right?

With implant Miss America may hear again Heathe…

With implant Miss America may hear again

Heather Whitestone, the deaf woman who won Miss America back in ’95, got a cochlear implant, which I assume would really piss off the “deaf identity” community except that they never really liked her anyway.

Laurence Simon lists all the things on our teevees…

Laurence Simon lists all the things on our teevees that we already don’t use; what’s one more? He left out the V-Chip… Actually, I use closed-captioning a lot.

Russia launches military exercises in Caspian O…

Russia launches military exercises in Caspian

One goal of the exercises is to cut down on sturgeon poaching. Illegal caviar poaching has devastated the sturgeon population over the last couple of decades. Just to reiterate… Impoverished Russia is willing to use military exercises to protect its wildlife, albeit valuable wildlife. The richest country in the world, however, isn’t able to spend a few bucks to protects its endangered species by, for example, keeping motorboats out of manatee preserves or even simply adding species to the Endangered Species list.

Latest US sighting of snakefish may be a hoax O…

Latest US sighting of snakefish may be a hoax

Officials think that the two men who claimed to have caught a pair of Dreaded Chinese Snakehead Walking Fish may have actually bought them at a seafood market or pet store. Of course, the fact that you can still buy live DCSWFs in a pet store is a problem, but the circumstances here were a little suspicious. Nobody’s ever caught DCSWF in the lake (a fairly substantial one) before, and these guys catch two in one day? On the other hand, maybe these guys are the Richard Jewells of the DCSWF saga.

(Note: the story uses the word “Dreaded” to refer to the DCSWF.)