Under a Gibbous Moon

Disgusting but true. Bed bugs have a pheromone that lets males know that they have, uh, “mounted” the wrong gender. Bed bugs, it seems reproduce via traumatic copulation, wherein the male uses his needle like penis to punch a whole into the females chest and then ejaculates into them. Suddenly, Alien seems less creepy.

Researchers were able to block the glad that produced this (why?) and found that males would then mount other males and proceed to stab them to death with there penises.

I can just see the lab now:

“Doctor, when we blocked up those glands, the males started to impale each other with their penises.”

“Hmmm, interesting, let’s run more tests, just to be sure.”

And people get up in arms when they test shampoo on dogs.

Finally, in the comments on the first article, this related comic was linked to. Try to not be drinking anything when you read it.

Apparently, Republican support for Soldiers is only good until they have something else that they want more.

Democrats blocked an attempted Republican filibuster attempt early this morning. The stated Republican goal was to stop the spending bill so that the healthcare bill would be delayed until after Christmas.

I’m blown away by this. Over most of the last decade the Republicans have, at the very least, led the charge to make sure that the military had the money and supplies that they needed. It seems that that was all a sham. They did it only because it was politically expedient and as soon as another cause came along that they cared about more, they were willing to pull the plug as a political maneuver.

And why were they willing to risk Solider’s lives? As Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan) put it:

“I don’t want health care.”

What a bunch of bastards.