…wants the feds to tell you how many dogs you can have.
Month: November 2005
Naps and Novels
I am not sure how “Michael Blowhard” at 2Blowhards ever manages to blog so much and still have a life– not just links, but full-blown essays. Here is one on naps (can’t live without one after lunch). And here is one on– more or less against– the modern “literary”, more than genre, novel. To my …
Bigotry
A nice quote (from Terry Teachout’s About Last Night): “Bigotry does not mean believing that people who differ from you are wrong, it means assuming that they are either knaves or fools. To think them so is an immediate convenience, since it saves us the trouble of analyzing either their views or our own. ‘Christians …
Our Guns and Theirs..
Steve Sailer has two interesting columns here and here on the guns of both sides in Iraq. I find it interesting that a Marine in Iraq seems to agree with me rather than The Alpha Environmentalist on a long- running controversy over the M16 vs the Kalashnikov– mainly over reliability, but also over small rather …
Derb, Doom, and Gloom
Anyone familiar with this blog will know that (A) I am a big fan of the writing of John Derbyshire and that, (B) despite the general cheerfulness of this blog, I run a regular feature called “Doom and Gloom’. For the life of me, I can’t see why one cannot see that while we are …
MUST BLOG!
I am still awaiting DSL, still using my antique IMac with an incredibly slow modem (added on– this one also fried its own), a mimiscule keyboard that jumps and puts in multiple exclamation points–!!!–and no ability to access my photos or put in new ones. But an encounter with a fan — a writer we …
A Third Ghost
Steve and I both posted examples of two “ghosts of evolution” – plants that have evolved with animal “partners” to disperse their seeds, who have since gone extinct. These were the osage orange and the devils claw, both plants mentioned in Connie Barlow’s book, Ghosts of Evolution. Earlier this week I thought that it would …
Mayan War Crimes
Yesterday’s LA Times and NY Times each had pieces on a spectacular archaeological find in the Classic Mayan site of Cancuen in Guatemala. Arthur Demarest, an archaeologist from Vanderbilt University, and his team are excavating there and found evidence of a great battle for the city around the year AD 800. Cancuen was taken by …
Art and Science
Steve’s blog brings together three people with, among other things in common, keen interest in their surroundings. Each of us might agree that keen interest is warranted and required by our home places if they are to be even partially understood. Toward this understanding we bring our three perspectives: We have in Steve an experienced …
Technical Difficulties – Slow Blogging from Steve
Steve has asked me to pass on to everyone that he is having technical problems with his computer which will probably keep him from blogging until later in the week. It is also limiting his ability to read and answer e-mail, so don’t worry, he isn’t ignoring you!