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Fathers
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spacy web comic, by Mike
"Mars Needs Women" Stanfill
With a big old tip o' the chapeau to Gary Larson.
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This
Bites
 Extinction
of animal life at the hands of man is accepted as just the price of doing
business in this world... important stuff like making
bajillions of cheeseburgers and fomenting endless wars on godless communists
or godful terr'ists.
But in an ironic twist, there's a new form of extinction that threatens
business itself and that's the quickly disappearing stockpile of certain
elements.
What?
Yes, the element gallium is almost completely depleted, along with indium
and hafnium. Zinc will all be gone by 2029 and it's a critical component
of the canning process. Get used to buying your soup in a bag.
Without gallium you can't have liquid-crystal displays. Indium is a vital
component of control rods in nuclear reactors. Hafnium (hold onto your
keybords) is used in the production of computer chips.
And somewhere down the line, and not that far off, the copper will run
out. Then we're really in trouble.
The two simple answers to this problem is to start recycling everything
and to start buying less stupid junk. I realize that anti-consumerism
isn't sexy but the alternative is that eventually you'll be impressing
the
guys
at the office with your new flint spear point. And probably sooner than
you think.
=mike=
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John
"Stray Calf" McCain Fun Facts: |
Mr.
McCain is on a roll these days. The man
seemingly can't open either of his mouths
without somehow stuffing the collective
feet of the LA Lakers down them.
F'rinstance, during a recent "town hall"
meeting in Denver Senator McCain called
Social Security "a disgrace". This was
based on the outrageous notion that the
SS taxes of younger workers are being
allocated to retirees.
You know... like it's supposed to work.
At the same time Mr. McCain is receiving almost
$60,000 a year for being considered 100% disabled
by the military. And if that's not just another
form of social security, I don't know what
is. And who pays for this tidy stipend? Young
workers.
Horrors.
So what's his answer to this problem? It's
either privatization or it's not privatization.
It just depends which day you ask him about
it.
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