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For those who are worried about Upstate New Yorkers slipping into total economic oblivion, there is some good news today. Although Mark Bitz of Plainville Farms once said that the economic situation here was analogous to putting a frog in lukewarm water and slowly raising the temperature until it politely boils to death, it turns out that this is not possible. You can’t boil a frog that way. Even if you raise the temperature slowly, it will still get agitated and eventually seek to escape.

So yes, eventually Upstate New York will be empty, but at least it won’t be littered with dead frogs. Good to know.

6 Responses to “Good news for frogs and Upstaters”

  1. Oh thank you! This had been weighing heavily on my mind. Why wasn’t this on Drudge Report?!?!

  2. James Fallows, the excellent writer for the Atlantic, has been decrying the boiled frog fallacy for quite a long time. Check out his “Boiled Frog” archive on his blog: http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/boiledfrog/

  3. considering that frogs and toads appear to be under environmental assault - http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/070501_frog_decline.html - the whole topic seems to lead to an interesting conclusion …

    maybe we’re the ones who don’t know enough to get out of the pot, even if we’re the ones who made it boil in the first place.

    sean

  4. But we’re not frogs… we’re people.


  5. exactly. frogs have sense.

  6. That doesn’t seem to stop them from getting run over in the highway afterward, though!

    It’s not easy being green, regardless of your species…


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