Looks like it is time for Plan B to try to help solve the ongoing drought in the Southeast.

Governors of three drought-ridden Southern states [Florida, Georgia, Alabama] met with federal officials to address water usage issues for two river basins Thursday, as the Army Corps of Engineers is expected to present a plan meant to relieve regions dangerously low on water.

So much for brilliant, foolproof Plan A, huh?

WHEREAS, Alabama is suffering from a devastating drought that threatens the livelihood of many of our citizens and reduces the quality of life for all citizens; and

WHEREAS, Alabama’s largest industry, agriculture, is dependent on sufficient rainfall; and

WHEREAS, low stream flows and lake levels are negatively impacting water use, recreation, navigation and power generation; and

WHEREAS, throughout our history, Alabamians have turned in prayer to God to humbly ask for His blessings and to hold us steady during times of difficulty:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama, do hereby encourage citizens of Alabama to pray daily for rain and proclaim June 30 – July 7, 2007 as Days of Prayer for Rain.

During this time, I encourage all Alabamians to pray individually and within their houses of worship for sufficient rain.

That certainly seemed to have worked wonders.

It’s like reading a Manifesto of Severe Retardation, isn’t it?

Once again, it’s looking like humanity will have to do the hard work and complex thinking to solve our problems, seeing as how God just can’t be bothered to do much of any damn thing at any time (well, aside from helping sports teams to win games and assorted celebrities to win awards and other such wonderful miracles that help ensure our survival).

I’m still waiting to wake up and find myself on Planet Rational.

After spending a lengthy first paragraph autoeroticizing to his self-glorification of his genius (psst, D’Souza, that dopey book The Secret was also a bestseller), Dinesh says we should accept Christianity because - even thought it might be a lie - it’s a beautiful lie.

Atheism, the hard truth, just can’t match that.

Kind of explains why people blow themselves up for their sacred virgins, doesn’t it?

Idiot.

Check out this article from Reason magazine on how drinking is under attack. Not drunk driving, mind you - oh no, no no! - but drinking and then driving. Even after one beer. (You’ll have to read a ways in to learn about proposals for making in-car breathalizers universal in some states).

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) may not be shit-faced, but they’re sure full of shit.

Have you been wondering whatever happened to the girl in the video for A-Ha’s song “Take On Me?”

Gosh, I know I have.

Almost constantly.

For, say, 20-30 seconds as I caught the end of the video.

Well, here you go.