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I don’t normally repost something from such a well-read site as io9 but FISH WITH HANDS!!!

Rare fish with “hands” are the true missing link

Found off the coast of Tasmania and Australia, the rare handfish are solitary, slow-moving creatures. They use their fins to walk on the seafloor, rather than swimming. This is how our ancestors might have looked, before emerging from the sea.

National Geographic has a series of articles on these fish, which are spotted so infrequently that it’s been hard for scientists to study them. There are only 14 species of handfish, and they lay very few eggs. Most are endangered.

They eat by wandering very slowly across the seafloor, eating worms and crustaceans. Though they make an easy target for predators, they manage to escape being eaten because they have extremely toxic skin.

via National Geographic (thanks, Marilyn Terrell!)

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Like what’s so wrong with socialism anyway?

Barack Obama, laughingstock

Thomas Lifson
It is starting. Open mockery of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly, middle-of-the-roader.

Via Tammy Bruce, Atlas Shrugged and Newsbusters (three terrific conservative sites) and Bedlam Magazine (an arts site) comes news of a poster spreading across Los Angeles, depicting Obama as a Heath Ledger Joker, and carrying the caption “Socialist.”

Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters includes pictures of the actual posters in use:

There will more of this. Count on it. Obama’s cool image is so 2008. It’s a long way down from lowering the oceans to laughingstock.

Hat tip: Charles Ahner Posted at 12:32 [From Leave It Open from the album “The Dreaming” by Kate Bush

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