The stupidness continues....

...and since pumpkins have existed, they've been rotting away just like their domesticated jack o'lantern counterparts - just in fields instead of landfills. There are written records of the existence of Cucurbita dating back to 1542 in Europe, and I wouldn't be in the least surprised if the various species can be traced tens of thousands of years before that.

So what have we been doing since 1542 about all this pollution that will kill us worse than the Black Plague? Making an excess of pumpkin pies? I don't think so.

Honestly, if I hear one more thing about under-sampled, poorly executed, exists-only-because-someone-grant-funded-it-and-a-bunch-of-people-with-more-degrees-than-sense-got-paid-for-it research, I'm going to go bananas (wouldn't be surprised if that's bad for the environment too). The phrase "a new study has shown" - sans any link to said study research - should be coined as the #1 bull$hit phrase of 21st century public service announcements.

I'm not one for being disrespectful to others, but someone ought take a photo of an overweight person eating McDonalds in an emissions-cheating, coal-rolling diesel Volkswagen packed to the driprails in rotting pumpkins.

-Kurt