Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insects. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Now,


this is interesting!

How tiny insects survive the rain

Really! It is interesting. It's an answer to a question I've actually asked myself in the past (in the case of bothersome mosquitoes, coincidentally) hoping that the answer would be slightly different...


Saturday, September 24, 2011

It's really important


Bee Aware

It's not that we think only of our lifetime, it's that we only think of today, maybe tomorrow, and some of us think of next week. The next generation or the one after that? Well, I don't know. We can't think that far ahead.

We can tell this by watching drivers. So many will stay in a lane right up to a barricade before they realize the road lane is closed and they have to change lanes. They don't look two feet in front of their car...

The governments don't care. They only care about business and getting re-elected. We're doomed...


Saturday, April 16, 2011

It's amazing what people will do


Of course, it was made for the theatre, but still...

On The Wings of a Beetle

Making a dress out of parts of bugs, whether killed for the purpose or part of the natural cycle, may make some people unsettled. Me, well, it doesn't matter. Anything becomes problematic. Even carrot juice is murder...


Monday, March 17, 2008

Oh! Ouch! Ow!

Millions of Bees Loose on Calif. Highway

They won't be rounding them up like they do cattle. I wonder what environmental effect this will have? Someone should make a movie about this. They could call it The Bee Movie or something like that.