First, I was impressed that homosexuals had such immense power that they could trigger earthquakes, but then, darn it, someone had to actually look at the data.
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There's something about earthquakes -- along with chickens and shoes -- that brings out an irresistible urge to pun on my part.
The results of this study are truly earthshaking.
Har har har.
I seem incapable of making a truly relevant comment on this blog. I blame a lack of science education since high school.
Now, Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large US city,
with a big undeground homosexual population. Des Moines, Iowa,
for an example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart.
You can't build on it; you can't grow anything in it. The government
says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on,
Stuart. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens.
They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to
God.
They never cease to amaze me.
PZ, I'm sure you've read Candide?
Voltaire wrote Candide in response to religious bigots of his day that claimed Lisbon was destroyed in an earthquake, by god, because of its sinful nature.
No one beats Voltaire for smacking down that particular idiocy.