I didn’t know until I got to the Losers’ Lounge tonight for unhappy hour that it was Earth Day. I want you to know that the Earth kicked our ass regularly and with great vigor until we figured out enough technology to tame it just a little bit.

Personally, I think we’ve still got a ways to go to make this damn rock dance the tango the way we want it to dance the tango. And we will, if everybody would quit acting like dipsticks. We don’t need much, and I don’t think an insentient bundle of minerals gives a fart in a whirlwind whether we live or die. Earth is going to keep on spinning ’round Sol whether we besmirch her or not. So let’s get to some besmirching.

THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER: San Jacinto Day…

Meanwhile, in a little irony, Mr. B.’s second grade class starts its “Mexico Week” this year on, wait for it, San Jacinto Day. Multiculturalism at work, I suppose. I wonder if the school system did it on purpose?

Mexico Week. Cogitate on that for a few minutes. Mexico. Week.

What do you think of? Nothing really, over here — fat cats getting rich off their citizens. Single-party hypocritical rulers. Outside of that, not a whole lot. Tequila, I guess. Thanks, Mexico!

As a sprout, I had a Mexico Week in kindergarten. As I recall, we spent a lot of time on Jim Bowie and Davie Crockett and the Alamo, and the Mexicans from whom we won our independence, and pinatas with candy in them. Hopefully, some of that seeps into Mr. B’s teacher’s agenda. It’s vital stuff.

ABC News: Dems Fight On; Hillary Clinton Wins Pennsylvania Primary

Sen. Hillary Clinton has won the Pennsylvania primary vote as expected, ABC News has projected.

I gotta give it to her…once the old gal assured Iran that they would be toast, extra-glassy, if they even thought about nuking somebody, I knew she was in.

At least Barack NMI Obama is going to have to continue to prove his worthlessness for another week or month or whatever it is till the next primary/convention. Hopefully, he can sneak in a knackwurst or something to keep his strength up.

Don’t cry, Marxists - there’s always a fresh bunch of high-school graduates you can recruit…an empty suit is easy to make as your figurehead. A dime a dozen, as they say.

You know what I love — Our Progressive Betters are going to end up in a steel-cage death match fighting over Super Delegates, Star Chamber apparatchiks toeing the party line (like you could find one to pick up, anyway.) That would be the ones they just knew were going to prevent another Chicago ‘68. Let me do the math for you — 40 years is two generations. Do you really think these schmucks give a minute’s thought to what their grand-dad preferred? I say, most unlikely.

FT.com / In depth - Oil hits fresh high as biofuels rethink looms

Expectations rose on Tuesday that soaring food prices will provoke a rethink of support for biofuels in Europe and the US, as the price of oil hit a new high of almost $120 a barrel.

Biofuels produced from crops such as corn and soya provide a small but fast-growing share of road-fuel supplies, and had been expected to make an important contribution to meeting growing demand.

Gosh, really, ya think? Fucking morons. Fucking idiotic morons.

Don’t you dare blame anybody but yourself. You were too stupid to realize that running a tractor over the acres of corn necessary to fuel the tractor to run over the acres in the first place probably wasn’t the best idea ever. It is not within me to believe that all these assholes didn’t know precisely what they were doing, which is wreck not one, but two, commodity markets.

Can we just please get back to punching some holes in the ground and sucking out the go-juice? I’ve always been proud that we fed the world. I’m not going to be proud that we produced an endless loop of gigantic harvesters generating barely enough fuel to run gigantic harvesters. That’s a fool’s game, and you all should know better, you damn hippies.

Era of cheap food ends as prices surge - Times Online
My father and my grandfather and my uncles and my cousins worked their asses off to feed the world. Lots of geniuses worked really hard to create crops that you could grow in a goddamned desert. Yet, here we are. My grandsons are gonna have to beat this crap back into the hole from which it sprang.

I’ll tell you this — cheap food ain’t over. It’s just blocked. By governments and bureaucrats. Get them out of the way, and see how cheap you can feed yourself and your family.