Archive for 2017

PITY THEM. OR MOCK THEM.  JUST DON’T TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY: Poor Darlings.

RISE OF THE GIANT RANGEOMORPHS: As scary as an Al Gore or Michael Mann global warming climate change horror story. They lived in the ocean. They looked like plants. But they were probably animals, with ecophenotypic plasticity.

Ecophenotypic plasticity refers to changes in an organism’s form (or phenotype) wrought by environmental influences.

Rangeomorphs lived 570 million years ago, but ecophenotypic plasticity isn’t over ’til it’s over. The 21st century is plagued by new forms of ecophenotypic plasticity. For example, Hillary Clinton looks like an animal but she’s really a plant with political ecophenotypic plasticity. CNN looks like a news network but it’s really an ecophenotypic plastic banana Democrat propaganda machine. I could give you other examples but I’d rather pour myself a shot of bourbon.

HEY: OK, I added the O. Typo, not bourbon.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Meningitis shot also offers some defense against gonorrhea, study finds. “Researchers studying a mass vaccination campaign against meningitis have found a surprising side effect – the shots also offered moderate protection against gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection that is causing global alarm. The findings, published in The Lancet medical journal on Tuesday, mark the first time an immunization has shown any protection against gonorrhea and point to new avenues in the search for a gonorrhea vaccine, scientists said. . . . Gonorrhea has become an increasingly urgent global health problem in recent years as strains of the bacterial infection have developed high levels of drug resistance. The World Health Organization warned last week that some totally drug-resistance superbug strains of the disease already pose a major threat. Yet so far, efforts to develop a gonorrhea vaccine have yielded disappointing results.”