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| Evolution | [[A hamster, Harold, and a groundhog, Ferdinand (aka Ferd), are walking outside]]
/ Harold: The theory of evolution is pretty amazing when you think about it. / Harold: If you take evolution to its logical conclusion, it implies that any species on earth can evolve into any other species if given the right pressures of natural selection and enough time. / Harold: Wait, what are you doing?
/ [[Ferd is holding a knife and fork, and has a bib tied around his neck.]]
/ Ferd: I'm waiting to see if you evolve into bacon.
/ Harold: Bacon's not a species!!! / {{alt text: Ironically enough, four billion years later the world witnessed the birth of the first bacon creature, which just happened to be a direct descendent of Harold.}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=542 |
| Happiness Versus Intelligence | [[Graph with a y-axis (vertical line) for Happiness and an x-asis (horizontal line) for Intelligence.)]]
/ [[Low intelligence, high happiness]] Ignorance is bliss
/ [[Increased intelligence, mid-ranged happiness]] Doesn't understand the world and knows he or she is suffering because of it.
/ [[Increased intelligence, more happiness]] Getting by and appreciates it could be worse.]]
/ [[Increased intelligence, high happiness]] Has a pretty good idea how the world works, isn't bothered by unknowns, and is living well because of it.
/ [[Increased intelligence, no happiness]] Everything is hopeless.
/ [[Increased intelligence, happiness is so high it's breaking through the top of the chart]] Discovers the secrets of the Universe while hanging out in strip clubs. / {{alt text: Feel free to print out this comic and write in your friends' and co-workers' names in the appropriate locations.}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=543 |
| [[ Harold sitting in front of a computer... ]]
/ Ferdinand: I see you're on Facebook now. Isn't it great? The key is its clean, no-nonsense design. / Ferdinand: Everything is presented simply and intuitively, so that it's easy to keep up with friends or whatever you want to do. / Harold: What if I want to adjust my privacy settings?
/ Ferdinand: Then you're screwed. / {{ alt-text: A comic about Facebook, the social networking service with more active users than most countries. }}
/ {{ title: It's probably not a good sign that if you Google "facebook privacy settings" the top links aren't even from the Facebook.com site. }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=544 |
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| Odds | [[ Aaron sitting at a table, reading a newspaper. Ferdinand enters, excited, hands in the air. ]]
/ Ferdinand: Aaron, you'll never guess the mind blowing thing that happened to me today! I saw a car with the license plate BZR128! / Ferdinand: Do you realize what the odds are of seeing that exact license plate? Many millions to one! / [[ Aaron has left the room, leaving behind his paper. ]]
/ Ferdinand: What?! Can't you appreciate a miracle?! / {{ alt-text: How do we know when something is really a miracle? }}
/ {{ title: Earlier today I was thinking about my Mom, and a few minutes later she called me on my cell phone. It's a miracle! }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=545 |
| Speciation | [[ Harold and Raymond taking a stroll. ]]
/ Harold: When different segments of a population have been apart for a long time, distinct species can develop. / Raymond: I wonder, is it possible that someday human beings could split into multiple species? / [[ Caption: Many years into the future...]]
/ [[ Scene shift: a young man confronts his parents (seen only in silhouette) ]]
/ Man: Mom and Dad, How did you know I'm infertile?
/ Parents: We're sorry honey, we should have told you-- Mommy is from a blue state and Daddy is from a red state.
/ Man: NOO!!! / {{ alt-text: Will human beings ever split into multiple species? }}
/ {{ title: The evolutionary split of human beings came when one of the two groups lost a crucial chromosome for brain development. I'll leave it up to you to speculate which of the new species this mutation occurred in. }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=546 |
| Spirits and Souls | [[Raymond and Aaron are walking through the forest.]]
/ Raymond: People argue against the existence of spirits and immaterial souls because they can't be explained by science. / Raymond: But if by definition these things are outside the scope of science, then you can't use science to prove or disprove them. / Aaron: Do these spirits and souls actually affect anything in the real world?
/ Raymond: Sure.
/ Aaron: Then they're within the scope of science. / Raymond Okay, let's say they don't interact at all with the world.
/ Aaron: Then WHY do we care?!?! / {{alt text: And no, they can't be composed of sterile neutrinos.}} / {{description: A discussion of spirits and immaterial souls and how they relate to science.}} / {{keywords: science, religion, faith, belief, philosophy}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=547 |
| Three Cheers for Ternary Numbers | [[Ferdinand and Raymond are walking through a forest.]]
/ Ferdinand: We're all familiar with decimal and binary numbers, but clearly base three numbering systems are the best. / Ferdinand: I especially like "balanced ternary" numbers where the digits are -1, 0, and 1. If you write -1 as 1_, then 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, become 1, 11_, 10, 11, and 11_1_. / Ferdinand: This elegant notation unites positive and negative numbers. Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing become a breeze because you're just manipulating ones and zeroes. / Raymond: You just like the fact that if binary digits are "bits" than ternary digits are--
/ Ferdinand: That's just an added bonus! / {{alt text: What about a million ternary digits?...In all seriousness though, balance ternary is awesome and I plan to use it for all calculations in the future. Just don't ask me to convert it to the arcane decimal system!}} / {{keywords: math}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=548 |
| Chandrasekhar | [[Alp and Harold are walking together through a forest with a star covered sky above.]]
/ Alp: In 1930, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was on a boat trip from India to Cambridge to begin his graduate studies in physics. / Alp: Along the way, he used the quantum mechanics of electrons to show that an exotic kind of star called a white dwarf has a maximum mass. / Alp: Unfortunately, the eminent astrophysicist Sir Arthur Eddington was adamantly opposed to this mass limit. / Alp: Even though most physicists agreed that Chandrasekhar was right, and he eventually won the Nobel Prize for his discovery, no one defended him because of Eddington's immense status. / Harold: It's impressive that throughout the ordeal Chandrasekhar always kept his composure
/ Alp: Well, there was one incident... / Eddington: I disagree! There's no maximum mass for white dwarfs.
/ Chandrasekhar: No Professor Eddington, there's no maximum mass for your mom! / {{alt text: And Dirac was all like "DAAAAMN!"}} / {{keywords: yo mama, astronomy, astrophysics, physics}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=549 |
| Holy Hypocrites | Number of Google searches from 2004-present for "god" and "free gay porn" in each U.S. state* / *Number of searches normalized by state's total search volume, and then normalized to 1 for the state with the most searches for that term. Data from Google Insights. / [[Searches for "god" on x-axis, searches for "free gay porn" on y-axis]] / Red: States that voted Republican in 3 or 4 of the last 4 presidential elections
/ Purple: States that voted twice for each party
/ Blue: States that voted Democratic in 3 or 4 of the elections / {{Alt text: Utah comes out looking pretty good here in comparison to the other red states, but they're actually number one by a HUGE margin when it comes to searching for a certain term that begins with a "p", ends with "ography", and isn't "photography".}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=550 |
| The Indiana Pi Bill | [[Harold is sitting on a chair and talking.]]
/ Harold: Edwin Goodwin was a math hobbyist who thought he had succeeded in "squaring the circle," an ancient problem that was eventually proven impossible. / Harold: In 1897, Goodwin proposed a bill to the state of Indiana that if they declared his proof a "mathematical truth," then he'd let state textbooks use his discovery free of charge. / Harold: Although the bill was full of mathematical errors and even defined pi to be 3.2, it would have passed if a Purdue math professor hadn't accidentally found out about it and intervened. / [[The camera pulls back to show Harold and Aaron watching television. Aaron is standing behind Harold's chair.]]
/ Aaron: Maybe someday we'll learn that politicians can't be trusted to legislate on matters of truth... / TV: To offer a balanced science education we must teach intelligent design! / {{alt text: "Maybe all politicians should be required to pass some sort of basic science and math test before being able to take office... oh wait, they'd probably just find a way to cheat...}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=551 |
| Legacy | [[Harold and Aaron are walking along together.]]
/ Harold: Computing logarithmic tables used to be an important task. / Harold: For example, in the 17th century the mathematician Henry Briggs calculated 30,000 natural logarithms to fourteen decimal places for use in a table. / Harold: Today these same logarithms can be found in a fraction of a second using any electronic calculator. / [[Harold and Aaron are standing on a cliff, looking down on a sunset over the ocean below.]]
/ Harold: It makes me wonder, how many of us are spending our lives on something that will someday become a triviality? / Aaron: How many of us aren't? / {{alt text: That's why I stick to surfing the web.}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=552 |
| Experts | [[Harold and Ferdinand take a walk.]]
/ Harold: As knowledge becomes more specialized, we increasingly rely on the opinions of experts for our decisions. / Harold: This creates demand for specialists, which in turn provides an incentive for people to fake expertise for personal gain. / Harold: In such an environment, how should I decide which of the so-called experts I can really trust? / Ferdinand: Well, it just so happens that I'm an expert in choosing experts! For just $19.95, I can help--
/ [[ Alp pokes in from off-panel... ]]
/ Alp: Hey! I'm the _real_ expert at choosing experts! / {{ Alt-Text: In a world controlled by experts, how do we decide which experts to trust? }}
/ {{ Title: So there are experts at choosing experts, and there are experts at choosing experts at choosing experts, and on and on... and there HAS to be a greatest expert, which means... which means... oh my, I think I just found a proof for the existence of God! }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=553 |
| Experts | [[Harold and Ferdinand take a walk.]]
/ Harold: As knowledge becomes more specialized, we increasingly rely on the opinions of experts for our decisions. / Harold: This creates demand for specialists, which in turn provides an incentive for people to fake expertise for personal gain. / Harold: In such an environment, how should I decide which of the so-called experts I can really trust? / Ferdinand: Well, it just so happens that I'm an expert in choosing experts! For just $19.95, I can help--
/ [[ Alp pokes in from off-panel... ]]
/ Alp: Hey! I'm the _real_ expert at choosing experts! / {{ Alt-Text: In a world controlled by experts, how do we decide which experts to trust? }}
/ {{ Title: So there are experts at choosing experts, and there are experts at choosing experts at choosing experts, and on and on... and there HAS to be a greatest expert, which means... which means... oh my, I think I just found a proof for the existence of God! }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=553 |
| The American Flag | [[ Ferdinand talking to Alp. Alp is at a table working on opening up a box with dials and buttons. ]]
/ Ferdinand: Historically, the American flag has evolved quite a bit over the years, but now it hasn't changed since 1960.
/ Alp: Mmm Hmm... / Ferdinand: That's why I think it's time we update the flag to better represent a modern vision of the U.S.
/ Alp: What kind of changes are you thinking about? / Ferdinand: Introducing "Stars and Stripes _and_ Bacon!"
/ [[ Ferdinand holds up a flag on which the red stripes have been overlaid with strips of bacon. ]]
/ Alp: Awesome!! / {{ Alt-Text: The American Flag hasn't been updated since 1960. Maybe it's time for a change. }}
/ {{ Title: And every 4th of July, we can have a national contest to see who's the fastest at eating the flag! }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=554 |
| Deepak Chopra Mad Libs | [[ This comic shows a page from a "Mad Libs" book. ]] / Heading: MAD LIBS
/ Heading: Fill in the spaces below and you too can provide spiritual advice like Deepak Chopra / Text: The mind is like a/an (subatomic particle).
/ Text: In both cases, when the (out of context term from quantum mechanics) occurs, the physical reality of the (synonym for infinity) becomes apparent.
/ Text: It is only due to the ("energy" or "wave" or "field") that surrounds us all that we can participate in (science buzzword).
/ Text: From this we know that (scientific sounding term that's really a euphemism for God) exists.
/ Text: Amazingly, (random noun from the cover of a Discover magazine) is the perfect analog to this phenomenon.
/ Text: This deep connection is the result of (ingredient found in alternative medicine).
/ Text: It is (feel good verb ending in "ing") that there is a fundamental link between us and (pseudoscience jargon) and that consciousness is always found in the (another term from quantum mechanics-- Jeez. Has this guy ever even taken a physics class?) / {{ Alt-Text: Just because Deepak Chopra can make grammatically correct sentences, doesn't mean they make any sense. }}
/ {{ Title: Now just make a whole book of these and you too can be a multi-millionaire. }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=555 |
| Happiness | Harold: Happiness is a strange and elusive thing.
/ [[ ... says Harold to Aaron. ]] / Harold: We all agree that it is a feeling and that we should strive for it in life. / Harold: But if given the option of being hooked up to a virtual reality machine and fed medication that is guaranteed to make us feel happy forever, most of us would say this is not true happiness and would not do it. / Aaron: Oh yeah?...
/ [[ The view pulls back. Ferdinand is sitting in an easy chair in front of the television, with his computer laptop at his side, ear plugs in and music player in hand. He's wearing one of those baseball caps with can holders at each side and a straws leading to his mouth. Along side the chair is a pile of cans- soda, beer, energy drinks... ]] / {{ Alt-Text: What does it mean to be truly happy? }}
/ {{ Title: Apparently happiness is a PBR strapped to your head. And if you don't know what a PBR is, well, I guess you have your assignment for the weekend. }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=556 |
| Simply the Best | [[ Harold and Aaron taking a walk... ]]
/ Harold: For over half a century, the U.S. led the world in basic research, helping to usher in a golder age in many fields such as physics and astronomy. / But now budgetary pressures and shifting priorities have led to decreased support for this research, which will hamper U.S. science now and cause lasting problems for the future. / Harold: As the U.S. relinquishes its position as a leader in these fields, what's left for the U.S. to be the best at? / Aaron: Killing things. / {{ Alt-Text: As the US relinquishes it's position as a leader in basic research, what's left for the US to be best at? }}
/ {{ Title: And if you think you're better at it than us, then we'll kill you. }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=557 |
| Illegal Immigrants | [[ From across a street, Aaron watches a protester-- a man holding a sign and shouting: ]]
/ Man: Send them back to Mexico! We don't want them here!
/ [[ The man's sign reads: Mexico _out_ of USA ]] / [[ Aaron has crossed the street to talk to the fellow. ]]
/ Aaron: What's the problem?
/ Man: Illegal immigrants! They're destroying the economy by stealing our jobs! / Aaron: Which job did they steal from you? Was it picking strawberries in the sun all day, or was it cleaning toilets for less than minimum wage? / {{ Alt-Text: Good to see baseball, with it's heavy Latin American influence, taking a stand on Arizona immigration laws for the All-Star Game... or wait, maybe not. }}
/ {{ Title: I guess it was cleaning toilets because this guy is way too white to be picking strawberries all day. }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=558 |
| Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth | Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth
/ [["Gross domestic product per capita*" on x-axis, "Percent of the public that believes in evolution+" on y-axis]]
/ [[* GDP adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP). Data from the CIA World Factbook]]
/ [[+ Percent of adults that answered "true" to the question "Human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals." From Jon Miller et al., Science, Aug 2006]]
/ Plot or graph shows the countries Turkey, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Poland, Estonia, Hungary, Portugal, Czech Republic, Malta, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Denmark, Iceland, and the United States of America (USA). Each is color-coded by its geographic region.
/ {{Alt text: Luxembourg was also included in the evolution survey, but its GDP per capita is insane, so I left it off the plot.}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=559 |
| The Mind of an Artist | [[ Panel ]]
/ Text: Here's a look inside the mind of an artist...
/ [[ In the subsequent panels, Harold shows his art to some friends...]] / Ferdinand: Your art stinks!
/ Harold: [[ Thinking ]] Nobody appreciates my unique artistic vision. / Aaron: This is horrible!
/ Harold: [[ Thinking ]] Nobody appreciates my unique artistic vision. / Raymond: Hey, I kinda like this!
/ Harold: [[ Thinking ]] I'm such a fraud. / {{ Alt-Text: Here's a look inside the mind of an artist... }}
/ {{ Title: And if the artist makes any money off his or her work = I'm such a sell out }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=560 |
| Don't Want to Believe | Harold: Would you say you "believe" in Evolution?
/ Aaron: I definitely think that Evolution is a fact, but the word "believe" is so saddled with religious connotations, it makes me hesitant to use it. / Aaron: One could use "think" or "convinced" or "accept", but saying "I accept Evolution," doesn't seem like a strong enough word to express my conviction. / Harold: Why worry about semantics? Who's really going to be confused by the word "believe?" / Aaron: The same people who think Evolution can be dismissed because it's only a "theory." / {{ Alt-Text: How do you say you believe something without people thinking that it's like a religious belief? }}
/ {{ Title: What we really need is a single word that means "conviction of its truth based on evidence"... that's it, we can just make the acronym COITBOE! So for now on I'll just say "I coitboe evolution." Sound good? }}
/ {{keywords: belief, religion, evolution, atheism}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=561 |
| Skipping in Time | [[ Harold and Alp take a walk. ]]
/ Alp: We all feel a sensation like we're moving forward in time, but our only direct experience of time is that we remember the past and not the future. / Alp: What if our consciousnesses were instead randomly skipping around in time from moment to moment? / Alp: We'd never know it because at any given moment we'd only be aware of the past. / Harold: That's a nice thought. An instant ago I could have been experiencing my first kiss.
/ Alp: Or coming out of your Mom's --
/ [[ The end of Alp's sentence is cut off by Raymond ]]
/ Raymond: Hey Now! / {{ Alt-Text: The only experience we have with time is that we remember the past and not the future. }}
/ {{ Title: Where were YOU a moment ago? }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=562 |
| Understanding | [[ Harold and Aaron, out for a walk, have reached a high point with a open view. Purple mountain ranges in the distance. ]]
/ Harold: Do you think it'll ever be possible to program the understanding of something directly into your brain?
/ Aaron: Maybe, but consider understanding an experience, like the smell of a flower. / Aaron: You can only really comprehend it in the context of all the other flowers you've smelled, and for that matter, every smell you've ever experienced. / Aaron: There's also all the associations you make subconsciously, like the smell of picking flowers as a kid, or the bittersweet smell of flowers you tried to give to someone you were enamored with, but were turned down. / Harold: So even if it were possible, it might take a while to do.
/ Aaron: It'd take a lifetime. / {{ Alt-Text: Will we ever be able to program the understanding of something into our brain? }}
/ {{ Title: You might think this wouldn't apply to things like math, but somehow I feel like I understand integration by parts a little more vividly because of my memory of the cute girl that sat in front of me in calculus. }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=563 |
| The Higgs Boson | [[ Panel ]]
/ Text: Physicists are eagerly anticipating that the LHC will soon detect the elusive Higgs particle.
/ Text: Here is a preview of how physicists will react if this discovery is announced. / [[ Two fellows clink glasses, sharing a bottle of champagne... ]]
/ Chorus: YES! / [[ A woman sitting in front of a computer screen... ]]
/ Woman: WOO-HOO! / [[ Two people, a man and a woman, in hard hats and work uniforms... ]]
/ Chorus: WE DID IT! / [[ Man standing in front of a black board, with woman colleague. ]]
/ Man: Now what?
/ Woman: [[ Looks blank, makes "I don't know" gesture: hands raised at shoulder level, palms up fingers out- . ]] / {{ Alt-Text: Here's a preview of how physicists will react if the LHC detects the Higgs particle. }}
/ {{ Title: Discovering the Higgs would be a fantastic achievement and obviously worthy of the Nobel Prize. But as physicist Sean Carroll tweeted "You have to take what Nature gives you. But if 5 years from now the LHC has found the Higgs and nothing else, I will be seriously bummed." }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=564 |
| Caffeine Ban | [[ Panel ]]
/ Text: Caffeine is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive substance.
/ Text: What if it were made illegal? / Panel Caption: Productivity everywhere grinds to a halt...
/ Aaron: Why aren't you doing anything?
/ [[ Ferd is lying on the ground, holding his head and clenching his teeth, quivering... ]]
/ Ferdinand: [[shaky]] The headaches... The buzzing... I think I'm seeing visions... / Panel Caption: A Black Market grows with associated gang violence...
/ [[ Extending in from the edge of the panel we see legs and feet, possibly Harold's, lying in a pool of blood. Ferdinand is wearing a camouflage bandanna (over his usual baseball cap), a strip of ammo over one shoulder, and holds a gun. ]]
/ Raymond: What happened?
/ Ferdinand: He touched my Pike's Place roast. / Panel Caption: Inevitably, the end of civilization...
/ [[ A disheveled Ferdinand and Alp lay on a pile of ash and rubble. Behind them the Statue of Liberty stands at an odd angle, half buried. In the distance, a ragged city skyline. ]]
/ Ferdinand: Oh the agony!
/ Alp: Why didn't we ban water instead? / {{ Alt-Text: Caffeine is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive substance. What if it were made illegal? }}
/ {{ Title: Of course who needs caffeine when you can wake up in the morning to a new Calamities of Nature comic, am I rite?!? }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=565 |
| Philosopher Parents | [[Blank panel with some text]]
/ Text : Philosophers don't exactly make the best parents... / [[Ferd and his son are face to face]]
/ Ferd Junior : Dad, a bully keeps picking on me.
/ Ferd : But can you prove that the bully isn't created by an evil demon? / Ferd Junior :Dad, what should I do with my future?
/ Ferd : With the problem of induction unsolved we don't know if the sun will rise tomorrow, let alone whether there'll be a future. / Ferd Junior :Dad, I'm getting the hell out of here.
/ Ferd : You'll never make it to the door. First you must go halfway to the door, but before that a quarter of the way, but before that an eighth, but before that...
/ Ferd Junior :Will that save you if I stab you with a knife? / {{Alt-text: This demonstrates the important general principle that the best way to solve any philosophical debate is through violence.}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=566 |
| Social and Fiscal Conservatives | [[ Harold and Aaron, out for a walk. ]]
/ Harold: It seem somewhat paradoxical that Social Conservatives and Fiscal Conservatives work together in the same political party. / Harold: If you believe going to heaven is the ultimate goal, why would you value personal wealth above helping the less fortunate? Conversely, if you think government should have as little impact as possible, why would you cant to regulate moral choices? / Aaron: I guess the groups are united by one important bond they share.
/ Harold: What's that? / Aaron: Their whiteness. / {{ Alt-Text: It seems somewhat paradoxical that social conservatives and fiscal conservatives work together in the same political party. }}
/ {{ Title: And their maleness, although Bachmann and Palin have provided shining examples of female conservatives--way to go! }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=567 |
| Truth and Ignorance | [[Aaron and Ferdinand sitting on a dock or pier]]
/ Ferdinand: People have long debated whether one is happier with a life of truth or ignorance. / [[Close-up on Ferdinand]]
/ Ferdinand: Personally, I think it's better to stay ignorant and be carefree. / [[Aaron and Ferdinand]]
/ Aaron: The problem with ignorance comes when you're forced to face the truth.
/ Ferdinand: Why did you have to point that out to me? Now I'm depressed! / {{Alt-text: Now if only you could spend an eternity in an isolation isolation tank--true happiness! Oh wait, you'll still have thoughts....}} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=568 |
| Check Her Out! | [[ Harold and Ferdinand, in a city setting, people-watching... ]]
/ Ferdinand: [[ points to the right, off panel ]] Wow, check her out, she's hot! I'd sure love to have a chick like that someday! / Ferdinand: [[ now looking left, she has apparently walked past... ]] Oh look, she's getting into a Mercedes with some rich guy. Figures! She's probably just with him for his money. / Ferdinand: Don't you hate it when people are shallow like that?
/ Harold: YES! [[... practically shaking with with-held thoughts ]] / {{ Alt-Text: This thought may have crossed my mind once. What can I say? I'm a horrible human being. }}
/ {{ Title: So stop judging me just because I have a sugar mama! }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=569 |
| Pushed Around | [[ Harold and Aaron take a walk. ]]
/ Harold: The other day I got yelled at by some lady for parking too close to her car. Even though she was the one who parked crooked, she made me move my car. / Aaron: Harold, you can't let people push you around like that. You need to stand up for yourself. / Harold: Yeah, I guess you're right. What can I do? / Aaron: Start by repeating after me: I will no let anyone tell me what to do.
/ Harold: I will not let anyone tell me what do do.
/ Aaron: Great, you've already failed. / {{ Alt-Text: The other day I got yelled at by some lady for parking too close to her car... }}
/ {{ Title: And for all of you people out there that yell at strangers, I have to ask why, because I really don't want to live on the same planet as you anymore. }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=570 |
| Warming Consensus | [[ Harold and Aaron take a walk. ]]
/ Aaron: When global warming is presented in the media, one person is chosen to debate each side to supposedly provide a balanced discussion. / Aaron: This makes it seem like global warming has less support in the scientific community than it really does.
/ Harold: What if the debates were more representative? / Reporter: Tonight on CNN, one global warming denier will debate 3,000 Climatologists.
/ [[ We see a view with a reporter in the middle of two groups, one person on one side and a large crowd of people on the other. ]] / Aaron: Yeah, I don't think that would go over well... /
/ {{ Alt-Text: When global warming is presented in the media, one person is chosen to debate each side to supposedly provide a balanced discussion... }}
/ {{ Title: Maybe they can have the global warming denier mud wrestle the 3,000 climatologists to boost ratings! }} http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=571 |
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