Tina Fey! YES! I'm VOTING!!!

Here at Reclusion, we have decided to, for the most part, not write about politics. Why? Well, because the world of politics resembles a construction-site "Spot-a-Pot" to me. These "Porta-Johns," portable toilets for the more genteel among us, stink so badly that the only time they can be utilized without the urge to vomit is in the wintertime - but even in the coldest of winter weather and even in the absence of a fresh
offering being deposited in the bottom of the lovely septic oubliette, they still stink. You are still very much aware that you are inside of a portable toilet.

So, it was with great shock that John McCain would pick former "Head Writer" for Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey, to be his running mate! His choice for Vice President! I mean, this announcement was made on August 29, 2008, my 40th Birthday - what a gift!

How could I not vote for Tina Fey? I mean, really, she wrote one of the funniest skits on Saturday Night Live ever! "Colonel Angus," with Christopher Walken as "Colonel Angus." This skit was an instant classic and to think that the woman who wrote this wonderful and witty word play on "cunnilingus" could be Vice President had me doing the Snoopy Dance around the Tammy Faye Baker Signature Series Air Conditioned Doghouse™ on my birthday!

Then I found out that he chose the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. Who is a beautiful woman, I must say. I was somewhat crestfallen that he did not choose Tina Fey.

And Woodstock...wept as I, once again, dragged my ass across the lawn muttering, "Must not vote...no choices! Must not vote..."

400 Dead Zones: Soylent Green is People...

"'Dead Zones' Appear In Waters WorldwideNew Study Estimates More Than 400

By Joel AchenbachWashington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 15, 2008; Page A02

...the number of oxygen-starved 'dead zones' in coastal waters around the world has roughly doubled every decade since the 1960s, killing fish, crabs and massive amounts of marine life at the base of the food chain, according to a study released yesterday.

...Low oxygen, known as hypoxia, is in significant measure a downstream effect of chemical fertilizers used in agriculture. Air pollution, including smog from automobiles, is another factor. The nitrogen from the fertilizer and the pollution feeds the growth of algae in coastal waters, particularly during summer.
The result is feast-then-famine: The algae eventually die and sink to the bottom, where the organic matter decays in a process that robs the bottom waters of oxygen. The ensuing die-off of marine life cuts down on the productivity of commercial fisheries. The 'biomass' missing because of depleted oxygen in the Chesapeake Bay, Diaz estimated, is enough to feed half the number of crabs that are commercially harvested in a typical year.

Hypoxia has been seen for decades in such places as the Chesapeake, Lake Erie, the Gulf of Mexico and Long Island Sound...

...government reports has identified many new zones, including in the Florida Keys, Puget Sound and tidal creeks in the Carolinas.

...the chaos in the planet's nitrogen cycle is not only creating dead zones but also inciting the spread of toxic organisms, such as the pfiesteria that has appeared in recent years in the Chesapeake.

Earlier this week, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published online a study warning of 'mass extinction in the oceans with unknown ecological and evolutionary consequences.'

The author, Jeremy Jackson, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, contends that global warming, overfishing, invasive species, habitat destruction and agricultural runoff are creating oceans crammed with algae and jellyfish -- a process he calls 'the rise of slime.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401910.html

TOPS A.L.R.T.

The TOPS A.L.R.T. Knife... "Anywhere Last Resort Tool."

Interesting knife, just observed it over on Stickfighter Joe's Blog which you can find here:

http://wwwblackthorn.blogspot.com/2008/07/one-of-my-hobbies.html

Don't own one so I can't review it, but the word coming in is it is a goody.

Here is a review of it on EDC Forums:

http://edcforums.com/index.php?topic=13204.0;prev_next=next

Everyone has a Mentor...

this one is mine.

We're probably not going to make it...

I have watched so many birds die lately. Birds have been drinking and eating nastiness for decades but...sooner or later, we are going to reach a point of critical mass and this stuff is going to come back and bite us hard in a most unpleasant place...