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FLATUS TAXUS! $700K Taxes to Study Cow Burps?

Bill O'Neill — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 00:48:51 +0000

Oh, waiter? Belching bovines, Batman! Seven hundred thousand dollars in federal tax money to study burping cattle? Really? As a friend of mine just remarked, “Meanwhile back at the ranch I am looking for loans to send my kid to school.” Couldn’t have said it better myself. “Cows emit most of their methane through belching, only a small fraction from flatulence,” said the project’s principal investigator, Ruth Varner of UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space. Pass the Lea & Perrons. Instead. The Manchester Union Leader reports that we are going to fund nearly three quarters of a million dollars in research to the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH to study burping cattle. While I enjoy a belching bovine as much as the next guy, would we not be better off putting a cork in that project for a decade or so just to see how it all, well, works out in the end? Oh, I can hear the naysayers: “How many more must perish before this great nation of ours recognizes our grievous irresponsibility in this matter as we pass gas to the generation of our great grandchildren?” Pass the Lea & Perrons. Indeed.

Bring Me Your Light Bulbs

Bill O'Neill — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:18:24 +0000

But, here is a former vacuum cleaner, now robot lady in search of what are vanishing incandescent light bulbs. If you read a bit between the lines, there is a lame attempt by me at a point to be made about the vanishing Edison light bulb which, when broken, leave us no worse for mercury poisoning unlike the new ones with which we are cohabitant.

Gulf Oil

Bill O'Neill — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:59:16 +0000

More good news on the rapidly improving situation in the Gulf waters.

If the gulf oil spill keeps disappearing, then what?

Bill O'Neill — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:56:57 +0000

You gotta love those who love “the Mother.” When the planet is doing what God intended it to do and that is seen as a good thing, then it’s “Mother Earth…