Animals

A couple days ago, I hung out with my good friend Jim (you should read his blog--he just had a post that used that o with two dots over it!), and we ended up spending something like an hour watching you-tube video of animal wackiness. Here's a summary of our viewing pleasures:

-a sloth doing nothing
-a sloth that almost fell off its branch
-an armadillo that came out of its hole and then went back
-an armadillo that was digging around in some guy's junk box
-two raccoons fighting
-an alligator eating a raccoon (not as cool as it sounds)
-a kangaroo boxing its owners on a talk show
-a kodiak bear eating more hot dogs than a Japanese guy
-an elephant and 44 midgets racing while pulling a jet

My conclusion: people are better than animals, unless they're pitted in direct competition.

I realize that sounds confusing. After all, if animals are better than humans when they're in direct competition, wouldn't they always be better than humans? The answer is an emphatic and belligerent no. Without the competitive drive, animals are very boring, as you-tube videos galore are waiting to demonstrate for you.

I highly recommend watching the midgets vs elephant race, though. I've already implied that the elephant wins, and that's correct, but it's still really funny. And you have to wonder, could 50 little people beat the elephant? We may never know.