The Great Plains used to be a giant forest. The Indians burnt it to the ground to hunt buffalo.R&K helpfully add this caption: "...[W]e hear they're also responsible for the depletion of the ozone layer."
Monday, April 28, 2008
A treat for TS and Blue Texan.
My friends Ross and Kathryn Petras produce a desk calendar called The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said. On this year's calendar, the quote for April 26 is by one of my friends' at Instaputz favorite putzen, Jonah Goldberg, from a speech he made at the University of Wisconsin-Madison:
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what the fuck? when, pray tell, were the plains supposed to be a forest? also, bison, um, don't live in forests. and, christ, i'm so fucking confused here. does this man know nothing of how climate works? the plains are vast grasslands cause it doesn't rain enough to support a forest ecosystem. see, there are big honking mountains in the way.
ReplyDeletearrghh!