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Digby, writing at Hullabaloo today about the anti-health care crowds that have been mobbing town hall meetings recently: This point is one that continues to amaze me. These people are coming unhinged over expanding access to health care. It’s not about taking away guns or mandating abortion or outlawing churches or some other issue about […]
Earlier this week, I listened to a National Public Radio report by correspondent Jerome Socolovsky on the discovery of early hominid fossils in Spain. According to Socolovsky’s report, the first fossil discovered at the site, a cave in the Sierra de Atapuerca hills north of Madrid, was a “1.2 million-year-old jawbone fragment from a species […]
I woke up possessed by the urge to ride, so I gassed up the Wing and headed to the top of Mt. Lemon, only a few miles from my home in NE Tucson, and blessedly, always 25-30° cooler. The road to the top winds and curves for 26 miles, and today for some reason I […]
My personal thoughts on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates? You probably think I’m about to say I agree with President Obama that the Cambridge police acted stupidly. No, actually, I think they acted predictably. Racism is a given in situations like this. Whites know it; people of color know it . . . if […]
Eighteen days from hatching to flying . . . a little short of three weeks. The nest is empty. Sadly, the second chick didn’t make it. She left the nest but apparently wasn’t ready to fly and something got her — I found her by the back door this morning. But one lived and is […]
Pwn: internet slang term, derived from the verb “own,” meaning to appropriate or conquer, implying domination or humiliation of a rival. — Wikipedia. From the New York Times, 21 July, 2009: Driven to Distraction U.S. Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving By MATT RICHTEL Published: July 21, 2009 In 2003, researchers at a federal agency […]
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