My Last Post

Well, this is it. All things must eventually come to an end.

After 4½ years of blogging and 3,590 posts, it's finally over. This is my last post.* I say this with a sense of deep sadness, for while I never thought when I first started this blog in November of 2006 that I'd still be adding content in May of 2011, it developed into a life of its own when I realized there were some out in the blogosphere that actually came here on a regular basis to read what I had to say. So I felt a sense of responsibility to continue to keep my blog current, even posting occasionally while on vacations, and recruiting some very good friends who can write and some very capable writers who have become friends to fill in when I couldn't. To them I give my heartfelt thanks and immeasurable gratitude for their contribution and their friendship.

Good luck to you all, and I most likely won't see you in the Afterlife.




* If Jesus doesn't come back and the world doesn't end tomorrow, please disregard this post and come back for my weekly Must Reads staple tomorrow.

Dead Birds: Science or End Times?

So... dead birds. Many dead birds... thousands of dead birds. What could the reason be? Speculation was that the birds were "shocked" to death by fireworks nearby. Really? I never thought that could be a possibility, but okay.

Then I heard a scientist on MSNBC discuss the possibility of a microburst, a column of sinking air coming down forcefully. The lead bird gets disoriented and flies directly into the ground, and the rest follow, kamikazi style. It's taken airplanes down before, so it sounds plausible enough.

But leave it to CNN and Anderson Cooper to play the Armaggedon angle with an interview of Kirk Cameron.

Cooper: ...Some people are even saying that these mass deaths are a sign that the end times are near, some have cited The Left Behind series of books, so we thought we'd talk to actor Kirk Cameron. He's a born-again Christian. He's written a lot about his faith. He's also starred in the Left Behind series of films. I spoke to him earlier.

The sad part is, Cooper probably had nothing to do with the booking, it's the CNN producers that thought this would make good television. How are those CNN ratings doing again?

My theory: The birds were shocked that Glenn Beck was canceled in New York, and soon in Philadelphia, and did an imitation of Beck's ratings.

By the way, the dead fish nearby was a completely unrelated incident and attributed to disease since there were no pollutants and it was only one particular type of fish that died... although I haven't ruled out the Glenn Beck theory.