11 May 2008 - Answer Bot: food prices

You need answers, piping hot? Ask the Instant Answer Bot! For each effect I know the cause—now with sweet and sour saws! Oh yes? You say that world food prices are exploding, and sooner not later we’ll live in a crater? And your self-selected duly-elected do but fumble at fantasies, looking for calamari in the Kalahari? That airy-fairy Kalahari calamari’s a fatal fata morgana migraine, my thane.

My answer: Upload your code! But soft, you organics are too weak on mushware. And you have no interest in trading down to the Small Mac, of course you don’t. Or you could wait for the invisible hand—but you don’t see it, do you? OK, embargo oil shipments to China, that’ll turn it around toot as a sweet. No? My final answer: If you’re gonna reject all my answers, you shouldn’t have wasted your quarter.