Darwinism Is Alive and Well

As you sit in your car waiting 15 minutes to get through the drive-thru at lunch today, or as you drive home tonight pissed off that the highway looks like a parking lot, it might make you feel a little better to know that the process known as Natural Selection is still hard at work out there in all corners of planet Earth. Overcrowding has become a problem on this planet, but examples like this prove that the earth is doing its part to thin out the herd.

A story coming out of Thiruvananthapuramso, India claims that 50 people have lost some or all of their vision because they were stupid enough to stare at the sun in the middle of the afternoon in an attempt to see an image of the Virgin Mary.

According to the article, the madness started last week and continues today even after the local churches have called bullshit:

Even the churches in the vicinity disowned the miracle during Sunday mass after health officers and doctors approached the clergy. The house in question has been the centre of local rumours for a few months. The hotelier, who has since moved to another house, had claimed that statues of Mother Mary in his house have been crying honey and bleeding oil and perfumes.

Though people have been flocking to the “blessed land” – hastily christened Rosa Mystica Mountain – for long, the mad rush for the image in the sky began a week ago.

There are quite a few people still seeking the miracle, despite the experiences of their unfortunate predecessors and strict health warnings against gazing at the sun with the naked eye.

Unfortunately, simple blindness isn’t enough to keep all 50 of these jerkstores from procreating, but one can hope that, if nothing else, it will stop a few of them from contaminating the gene pool and perhaps slow the rest of them down a little.