Free the Frozen People!

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After seeing this sign in a local grocery store, I carefully searched the entire frozen food section, but I could find neither the frozen Mexican, nor the frozen Asian. Since they were gone, but the sign indicates they were there at one point, I concluded that the experiment was over, and hoped they had thawed out both experimental test subjects, found them still healthy after a few days in cryogenic suspended animation, and sent them home, each with a fat check to compensate them for the huge risk they just took.

However, even with compensation and signed consent forms, I still have certain ethical reservations about scientists performing this sort of experiment on actual human beings. Why not freeze, thaw, refreeze, and rethaw mice, instead? Is PETA really that scary?

Are they still doing these experiments, in my town or elsewhere? If so . . . free the frozen people!

There is one last thing about this whole thing which I just can’t figure out, though, and that’s this: why were they storing their frozen, experimental, human test subjects in the middle of a central Arkansas grocery store in the first place?

Welcome to Arkansas: The Tornado State

arkansas the tornado stateWe’re under a tornado watch here, for approximately the thousandth time in my life. Seeing a “tornado watch” alert is about as rare here as seeing a Walmart.

Do wake me up if there’s a tornado warning, though, please.

A Confusing Sign, Posted at the Entrance to My Local Library

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I just returned home from a visit to my local library, and was so bewildered by this sign at the entrance that I felt compelled to take a picture of it. Helium doesn’t react with anything at all . . . so why would a library want to ban helium balloons? It’s not like helium can damage books!