Happy Mother's Day (snark)

So today we celebrate mother's ability to squirt out brats. Silly, if you ask me, because every mammal has that ability. In the US these brats use up a disproportionate amount of the world's natural resources. On Mother's Day we go to church and then to brunch to celebrate being born in this country of abundance.

So, ok, let's look at other places on the planet and see how they are dealing with (frankly) an overabundance of human life on the planet.

I noticed that the Pope was in Brazil this week.


The kids there want to be able to use birth control. I think that this picture of the Pope's face plastered everywhere would be pretty good birth control, don't you? Dude is seriously scary looking.

For some reason, I thought that Islam forbid the use of birth control. Not so according to Ayatollah Al-Sistani:

Ayatollah Al-Sistani's Missionary Work
Eschewing politics, he uses the Internet to spread his ideas

I'm not thrilled with the thought of more and more of this---
ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES: PART 16--NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS

But Alexander Cockburn seems to think that that the global warming scares are the work of more old, powerful, rich white guys trying to get richer.

Fuck him. Global warming is here and is affecting crops. Crops affect population growth.

Economic theory and population growth are really incompatible when you look at finite resources.