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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 06:06 PM
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Small-Brain Pollution (Satire at its Best!)
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Small-Brain Pollution
Monday June 11th 2007, 5:49 pm — Al

As a source of smoke, fumes, and carbon dioxide, the tiny engine on a lawnmower or weed-whacker is trivial. But there are so many of them, and they are so loosely regulated for emissions or efficiency, that they add up to significant pollution.

California has started to regulate small engines, and now the EPA is beginning to move in the same direction.

What has not yet been addressed is the fact that the same principle applies to brains. Small brains are much less efficient than larger ones, and their emissions range from annoying to downright toxic.
They inflict far more damage on the environment and on society than large, powerful brains doing thousands of times more useful work.

The evidence for these conclusions consists of six and a half years during which the Bush administration and the religious right have teamed up to install a horde of puny intellects in positions once occupied by people with perfectly normal brains. The result is the worst fouling on record of the American political and cultural atmosphere.

A spokesperson for Focus on the Family is rumored to operate a brain of only four neurons that requires six pulls on the starting rope to generate even a silly mistake. Yet somehow this cortical pipsqueak manages to spew out even more noxious fumes than the whole Arkansas legislature, though somewhat less than those of Texas, Kansas, or Kentucky.

Our only hope is that such underdeveloped mechanisms, like those on lawnmowers, will someday be guided around the landscaping by illegal aliens.

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shenmue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 06:28 PM
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1. Hee hee
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Johnny Noshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 07:57 PM
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2. Thanks
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 09:22 PM
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3. Glad You Liked It=It's Too Cute To Let Die
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ladym55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-12-07 09:31 PM
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4. And the next job is to find someone who WON'T pull the starting rope
Someone needs to explain that pulling the starter rope THAT often is WAY too much work. Let the little itty-bitty lonesome quartet of neurons rest themselves for a long, long, long time. You don't even need to bring up the resulting pollution!
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