“You know all this [expletive deleted] that’s going on around the world, weather-wise, well, we’re seeing it in Arlington [location of the Rangers Ballpark]. The jet stream at The Ballpark ain’t what it used to be. That’s changing. I think it’ll help our arms.”

Rudolpho ‘Rudy’ Jaramillo, hitting coach for the Texas Rangers, hopes that global warming will help the team’s pitching [hat tip: The Guardian, Star-Telegram.com]

“Maybe the best we can do is join in a bipartisan agreement to engage only in the harmless type of science-hating everyone can love: UFOs, psychics and underwater kingdoms that appear on Google maps”

Columnist Joel Stein, writing in the Los Angeles Times, finds liberals hate science just as much as the far right – and searches for common ground between them.

“You can’t expect tigers to become vegetarians. They need meat and humans trespassing their territory are relatively easy targets.”

Nurazam Nurdin of the Nature Conservation Agency asks sympathy for Sumatran tigers, who are attacking humans in desperation for food as their forest habitats are illegally eroded. The Sumatran tiger is in danger of becoming the first major mammal to become extinct in the 21st century, The Times reports.