it’s that time of year
i find myself thinking more in ’seasons’ than in months these days i suppose it’s because i am starting to think in terms of ‘gardening’ instead of just grocery shopping. i really hate grocery shopping. and, i have a feeling more and more folks are feeling the same way because i have seen [...]
The Last Screams Of A Dying Dinosaur
I saw a Dodge commercial on the teevelast night that featured the new Challenger that brings back the carefree days of my youth. In a meloncholy way I longed for the days when it didn’t seem necessary to conserve, both fuel and the environment. Let the damned hippies worry about that stuff and consume! Cruising [...]
Whale of a problem with Palin
Whales are beautiful creatures, that require a healthy ocean habitat to survive. On Friday, the federal government placed the Beluga whales in Alaska’s Cook Inlet under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, concluding that a decade long recovery program has failed to insure their survival. The findings of NOAA’S National Marine Fisheries Service [...]
Palin loves aerial hunting.
Of course the reality is..aerial hunting isn’t hunting..its morbid and its a painful death for the animal. Pass this around. I grew up in a family where we didn’t eat store-bought meat until I was 7 or 8. I know hunting and this ain’t fucking hunting. My republican father agrees and is appalled.
From the Defenders [...]
Excellent Essay
*Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for “The Vagina Monologues”, wrote the following about Sarah Palin*.
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. [...]
Spill Baby Spill!
I was at the NOAA website, getting updated on what is happening with Hurricane Ike, and came across this information….Month-long Response Continues for New Orleans Oil Spill
Progress Or Self Destructive Prolificacy?
The scene is the Harbor Freeway (SR 110) in Los Angeles, looking south, on the stretch between the Hollywood Freeway (SR 101) and the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10), in downtown Los Angeles (as viewed from the 7th Street bridge). What is remarkable is that the picture was made on or about June 1, [...]
Travelers’ Advisory: Brachylagus idahoensis
It was announced by authorities in the state of Washington that last week 20 mamalian life forms identfied as Brachylagus idahoensis, which are of the order Lagomorpha, and family Leporidae, left captivity and are roaming free in Washington state. Previously 8 of the animals were being held in Portland, Oregon, and 12 of the animals were held in Pullman, Washington.
a little light reading for the weekend
i am up to my eyeballs in boxes and packing and moving stuff- but i still have internet and my morning cuppa i like to read through my google reader when i get the chance- i have been mostly skipping newsy blogs because i don’t have time to read the same crap [...]
Unbearable
This week the polar bear was designated as a species threatened with extinction, making the arctic bear the first creature added to the endangered species list, primarily because of global warming. A U.S. District Court in Oakland, CA, forced the Bush administration by imposing a May 15 deadline because it was supposed to have been [...]
