Open thread: None of your bees wax

Like I don't have enough ...

Okay. I'll click it.

Later. After.
After breakfast has digested. Is this gonna make me hurl?

right there, man.

This is so not good.

When bees become ill, they usually die in the hive. They don't disappear completely.

I saw honeybees foraging off my back deck this winter. It was about a week before 'the big chill' (formerly known as 'Winter')that lasted several weeks. I was worried about the little guys because they don't watch the news. They're back - but for how long?

for the right wing spin of this potential ecological crisis. I can hear it now ... "We don't know why so many bees are disappearing, but we suspect they've simply run away to the cities, become street prostitutes and homeless saccharine addicts ... it's because they took prayer and hive family values out of the schools ... no, wait, it's Al Gore's fault ..."
Dharma Pup

Maybe the followed the penguins to Dobson.

has a neat little piece on his blog (with audio) about the NC Party of Greed whining cause they don't get no respect.

“One of the things we saw ourselves as needing to do a better job with is communicating our ideas,” Berger said when I asked him about this last night. Instead of waiting for us scruffy press types to come and ask their opinion on something, Berger said the GOP wanted to make sure their opinions were out there in advance.

Maybe it would be good if they spent more time having ideas in the first place instead of worrying about "communicating" them. And frankly, who gives a hoot what their "opinions" are. That's one of the big problems with the Party of Greed - they confuse opinions with ideas. They're not actually for anything, they're only against things, and their "opinions" are grounded in nothing more substantial than free market fantasies.

I sure hope the Capital Press Corpse doesn't get in the habit of covering their weekly pity parties.

is up at DailyKos.

Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.

for anyone who has ever spent an hour plus writing a diary, only to watch it die on kos within 5 minutes, the top of the recc list has some great satire on the subject. Amusing stuff.

Draft Brad Miller -- NC Sen ActBlue :::Petition

Remembered this from last summer: The Vanishing, in OnEarth Magazine.

on unions. among the rescued

Draft Brad Miller -- NC Sen ActBlue :::Petition

The insurgents now control at least twenty districts in the Kandahar, Helmand, Uruzgan provinces where NATO troops have replaced US soldiers. And it is hardly a secret that many officials in these zones are closet supporters of the guerrilla fighters. The situation is out of control.