Andrea Thompson blows goats for quarters--I have PROOF!

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."

-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose."
-– Herbert Hoover, on Prohibition, 1928.


"The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an author; some out of vanity, to acquire celebrity and raise up a name, others for the sake of mere gain."
--Martin Luther, German Reformation leader, 1530s.


"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."
--Albert Einstein, 1932.

"Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
-- Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.


“Stomach ulcers are caused by stress” — accepted medical diagnosis, until Dr. Marshall proved that H. pylori caused gastric inflammation by deliberately infecting himself with the bacterium.


"Global warming can no more be 'proven' than the theory of continental drift, the theory of evolution or the concept that germs carry diseases."
--Andrea Thompson, Some bitch with a blog.

There may be enormous mass fires scrubbing whole counties clean; 1,000-year floods that wash away entire towns; giant tornadoes up to half a mile wide; Category 8 hurricanes; 9.5 earthquakes; a severe lack of ice at the north pole; but there is no "PROOF."