Time for a digression, already

When you see the word may in a headline, do not willingly suspend disbelief. May is a wiggle-word for a story that doesn't say anything conclusively, but just opens a possibility. So now we have a small papyrus, tentatively dated to the fourth century with a partial sentence that reads "“Jesus said to them, ‘My wife ...’ ”

We don't know, can't know who wrote it or under what circumstances. But we'll all have to deal with a bunch of ignoramuses who just know it's been proven that Jesus was married. They'll probably make a History Channel marathon out of this one.

And our first anthropomorphism ...

Our first anthropomorphism is from our friends at NPR.

We love NPR. It is radio for the 115-125 IQ. It is radio that doesn't involve Christina Aguilera or anyone who has been on "American Idol." And it is radio for people who may be "people of faith" but would never deign to be so small-minded as to be orthodox in any religion or or eschew something as universally avowed by people with 135+ IQs as the theory of evolution or believe something as infantile as that we all come from Adam and Eve.
So we are especially exasperated when stories on NPR seem to say that evolution has an intelligent force behind it.
So we were very disappointed on Sept. 11, 2012, to find this NPR story about the Pollia condensata, a plant with a berry that has been found to be the most reflective of any natural substance yet known. It reflects about 30 percent of the light that strikes it, but wait, there's more. The berry itself has no pigment, but it reflects light in such a way that the majority, but not all, of reflected light is in the blue range, giving it an intense blue color, but that which is outside the blue range makes its glow slightly pixilated. In the midst of this wonderment, come this gem.

Of course, you're wondering why a plant would go to all this effort. Well, it needs birds to take the fruit and spread its seeds.

So, not only does this mindless (I assume) plant have needs, it gives good effort. Kind of makes you wonder how long it took to coil all it's color-reflecting cells when it realized it not only had an inedible fruit, but also a blase color.