Yesterday’s News Today
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Right, by now most of you should know the drill: every Saturday on this bloglett I attempt to build up my part with Soundtrack Saturday. It doesn’t really work of course because nobody actually reads this preamble, as evidenced by the fact that not one person even tried to answer Thursday’s trivia question. Anyway, enough of that. Yesterday (although 2 days ago by the date this will have been uploaded) we witnessed the death of Michael Jackson. Whatever you think of him as a man it has to be mentioned that he sang some damn good songs. For my money the best of his songs was not Thriller but the often overlooked Smooth Criminal:
http://www.last.fm/music/Michael+Jackson/_/Smooth+Criminal?autostart
And now, the news:
Wildlife Faces Cancer Threat
Prairie dog of Bodmin
Thailand a hub for growing illegal ivory trade
France to face EU court over great hamster disappearance
Many sharks 'facing extinction'
More than 100 fish killed in pollution spill
Thousands of eggs seized in raid
Corncrake fights back from extinction
Legless frogs mystery solved
If I were a newt I’d be really worried right now about frogs encroaching on our similes….
Regarding Michael Jackson, maybe the CFZ can do some anthropological digging into any other cases where ethnically Black individuals can sire seemingly ethnically White children, without mixture. And do it three times. Surely an astonishing record. Also, the CFZ can maybe look into Jackson's own curious "disease", in which a Black person slowly turn White, due to a seeming disappearance of melanin in their skin. Surely a troubling occurrence for anyone afflicted with it. And as Jackson, by his own admission, had very little plastic surgery, the strange malady he possessed where a normal African-American male gradually turned into something resembling a plastic pixie is surely deserving of scientific study.
ReplyDeleteHopefully Jackson will not be buried or cremated, but, with the benefit of taxidermy, will rather end up in a museum somewhere. Pop's loss is surely Science's gain.