Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Random animals and politicized penguins

Random animals and politicized penguins

It seems the Biblethumpers cam find a political agenda wherever they want, and now penguins have been politicized:

The movie is "March of the Penguins," and of all the reactions it has evoked, perhaps the most surprising is its appeal to conservatives. They are hardly its only audience; the film is the second highest grossing documentary of all time, behind "Fahrenheit 9/11."


But conservative groups have turned its stirring depiction of the mating ordeals of emperor penguins into an unexpected battle anthem in the culture wars.

In response, we have this story from, I kid you not, the San Francisco Chronicle:

Roy and Silo, two chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, are completely devoted to each other. For nearly six years now, they have been inseparable. They exhibit what in penguin parlance is called "ecstatic behavior": That is, they entwine their necks, they vocalize to each other, they have sex. Silo and Roy are, to anthropomorphize a bit, gay penguins.


And the 102nd use has been found:

A German inventor says he's found a way to make cheap diesel fuel out of dead cats.




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