re: #434 Thanos

The volcanoe thing is a standard Republican swipe against scientific research, and has the added benefit of sucking some dollars out of Sarah Palin turf if he succeeds in shooting it down.

This is worse than fruit flies. Fruit flies takes a little bit of work to explain. But I bet more than a handful of Americans looked at the TV quizzically thinking that volcanic activity might actually be something we would want to keep a bead on.