Post-Schna-ulations

A funny thing happened on the way to the office this morning

I looked down the alley that goes behind my office building and saw a man, leaning over a bunch of full plastic bags, with his pants down. I'm not sure what was going on; I just saw too much pasty white ass.

The wind here today is putting forth a serious effort to knock me over. Average speed when I left for work this morning was falling around 25mph, with gusts reaching 37mph. There's a lot of stuff flying around everywhere. I'd feel better with a hard hat.

Here are a couple articles of note:

The first is an update to the salmon problem out in the west (some of you may have read a few weeks ago that the Grand Canyon was being flooded for 19 days in an attempt to preserve 11 or 12 different species of Salmon that are endangered due to dams on the Colorado River and overfishing).
US Rules out Dam Removal to Aid Salmon

The second is in regards to the prisoner abuse that is going on at Guantanamo Bay (and that is largely being ignored by our government, much to my chagrin and disgust).
Abu Graib, Caribbean Style
An excerpt (emphasis mine):

The administration's response to the Red Cross report was unsurprising. The military brushed off the Red Cross's complaints when they were made, just as it did at Abu Ghraib. Yesterday, Lawrence Di Rita, a spokesman for Mr. Rumsfeld, said the Red Cross had "their point of view," which was not shared by the Bush administration. The Red Cross's point of view, however, is reflected in the Geneva Conventions and in American law. The recent debate over prisoner abuse has not been brought to the courts, but the Supreme Court has ruled that Mr. Bush cannot suspend due process for prisoners of his choosing.

The White House, the Pentagon and the Justice Department clearly have no intention of addressing the abuse. Indeed, Mr. Bush has nominated one of the architects of the administration's prisoner policy, the White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, to be attorney general. The general who set up the system at Guantánamo is now in charge of prisons in Iraq.

And, so as not to end on a depressing note, check out this article:
Germans think they're well hung - but they're not
Excerpt:

"People measure their feet when they buy shoes. Why shouldn't they measure their penises? A man would not wear children's shoes," said Jan Vinzenz Krause of Vinico, which released the study's findings on World AIDS Day.

posted by Schna @ 1:38 PM