Circus of the Spineless

If you can tolerate the obvious Echino-bias, personally it makes me want to puke, the latest Circus of the Spineless is up over at from Archaea to Zeaxanthol. Word on the street is that all Mollusk contributions were deleted.

In a very unsurprising post from I'm A Chordata, Urochordata!, there is another post voting for the chordates. Personally, I think the Google results are faked. Try running that search with mammals and birds removed. Please! Like anybody cares about tunicates.

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Hey! I'm supposed to host the Circus of the Spineless next week (I think on 29 January), and I've only received one submission so far! Someone must have written something somewhere about invertebrates, right? There is a set of rules for submissions, but it's going to be simple: I'll accept anything…
Well it was only a matter of time before Miriam added the tunicates. Let me say that it has become crystal clear to me today what is occurring. This whole battle pits the protostomes vs. deuterstomes. The protostomes must rise up and defeat the evil empire and unjustness that is deuterstomes.…
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teehee. Well, Urochordates use us so well, that why not let them use our power on the intertubes as well... They're sneaky like that - MWAHAHAHA!