Saturday, September 09, 2006

Interesting that when the President tells the truth it makes headlines.

SLOTHS!

The three-toed sloth has stolen my heart. Sloths, widely associated with the sin of laziness, have gotten a bad rap. Sloths move slowly in order to conserve hard-to-come by energy; they're not lazy, they're conservationists!

Their nose is about half of their face, and when they smell something interesting, the whole thing contracts and expands. When they blink, they blink with the whole half of their face that isn't their nose. And they have toenails/claws that look like 3/4ths of one of those plastic rings you hang shower curtains with.