This is a little old, but I’m catching up on email.  Jeb Bush’s cronies have downgraded manatees from "Endangered" to "Threatened," over the objections of knowledgable scientists.

The most likely result?  More dead manatees, and very possibly long-term extinction, courtesy the Bush family.

Thanks to Slim for the tip.

UPDATE: Alert reader Paul points us to a recent Carl Hiaasen article in the Miami Herald for more.

Some people look at the way Easter Islanders destroyed themselves by deforesting their own land completely and wonder, "what the hell were they possibly thinking?"

I don’t wonder at all.  The answer is in the newspaper.  Every goddam day.

Now that conjoined twins have been split, what impossibly-bound objects are next?
Joe Lieberman’s lips from George W. Bush’s… um… policies
169   72.5%
The Bush family and Rev. Sun Myung Moon
34   14.6%
Patrick Fitzgerald from Dick Cheney’s future
18   7.7%
The Dow Jones Industrial Average from its level when Bush took office
12   5.2%

(For those who are curious about the Rev. Moon reference, just click on the link for more.)

Now that full-face transplants are becoming possible, I’m wondering about who’s a good candidate

Is anyone capable of listening to their own experts anymore?

The entire future of the space program

Sorry the pudu is a little late this week.

Of course, time shifts happen around pudus a lot.  Long-time readers are familiar with the strange phenomenon of the Nuzzling.  Simply by touching you with its nose, a pudu can trigger a mild temporal shift, allowing you to glimpse exactly three seconds into the future.

Usually all you see is more nuzzling.

The effect lasts for four full seconds.  So by the end of it, you’re usually pretty discombobulated.

Sometimes even pudus themselves can lose track and have to look over their shoulder to see if they’re still there.

Usually they find they’re just a little bit ahead of their own keisters.

As am I, most days.

As am I.

What will Ann Coulter’s next book accuse liberals of being?
Plagiarists Long Past Self-Parody
277   45.2%
Chain-Smoking Harpies Incapable of Long-Term Relationships
194   31.6%
Illegal Voters Who Even Lie About Their Age
102   16.6%
Skinny Blondes
40   6.5%

Now that doctors have figured out how to separate those conjoined twins, what impossibly-bound objects will scientists take on separating next?  Take the new poll.