england has bigger problems

so apparently involvement in the iraq war and, you know, those pesky iranian hostage situations rank pretty closely to a blossoming problem with the impact of cell phones on BEES in england (read the following paragraph in a british accent for an extra good time):

Some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.

They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.

i don't even know what to say about the news anymore. if it's not about 31 people being shot to death, then it's about how badly we're treating the world and also how we're going to pay for it big time. call me crazy, but i'm running out of things to care about. right now the list looks like this: coffee, cigarettes, america's next top model, my own personal success as a human being, avoiding falling down a flight of stairs and knocking out all of my teeth, nail polish, puppies, ants, and then bees. so yeah, i guess after reading this, bees moved up on the list.