Tag: caves

So: weird cave, giant crystals, unusual microbes unknown to Science.

OK, look, I get it.  But stuff like this is too easy: I mean, you hear about this mine in Mexico where the crystals grow to ridiculous size, and where the researchers are finding all of these strange microbes that have evolved under insane conditions, and really, the horror scenario writes itself.  It’s effortless.  This is still the real world, and in the real world things don’t always fit the tropes…

Describing working in the cave [NASA astrobiologist Dr. Penelope Boston] said: “It was a transformative experience…it really felt strange. It was a very hard environment to work in, but tear-inducingly beautiful. It’s like being inside a geode.”

…Oh, come on.  Make me work for it a little. I don’t need coddling.

Left trying to get their heads around Obama caving on speech time.

I suspect that Michael Scherer of Swampland is genuinely confused, while Cenk Uygur of HuffPo is just being disingenuous, judging from their reactions to Barack Obama’s garden rake moment last night.  For those who missed it: Obama wanted to schedule a speech at the last minute that would have interfered with a Republican debate; Boehner told him no; Obama promptly caved. And there was much weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth…

Anyway, I’m lumping Scherer and Uygur together because the two neatly bracket the confusion and dismay that has come over the Left from watching President Obama get smacked down – finally – for being a jackass about something; in this case, for trying to muck about with the Republican debate schedule for no better reason than because Obama’s poll numbers are even worse than his job creation record.  You see, the Online Left has this little narrative where they’re all rough-and-tough digital revolutionaries facing down the thuggish, jackbooted, faceless minions of the VRWC*… so they react badly whenever one of their Designated Man-Gods meets objective reality in an objectively realistic fashion.  ‘Badly’ being defined in various ways, of course. Continue reading Left trying to get their heads around Obama caving on speech time.