Russians do the best animal and fieldsport art in the world. Here is an old one of “classic” (Psovoya) borzois, courtesy of Ingrid Lasimer.
Month: December 2005
A parting shot…
I want to leave you with an image or two. Luckily, although all my stuff is still tied up in the EMac, more comes in all the time. Here is a photo that Andrey Kovalenko, breeder of one of my tazis and owner of the father of another, took while on an extended ornithological trip …
“Story”
Michael Blowhard shares his ideas about narrative in this long andwonderful post. I am inclined to agree with him, especially as I start work on two (!) for- lack- of- a – better- word- thrillers. “Narrative” has always been hard for me, at least beyond the level of anecdote, while “writing”– images, wordplay– has been …
“Conservatives”–??
Hereis a conservative if quirky blogger who shares some of my doubts expessed below about conservatives who want to remake the world. Money quote: “The designs of the neocons are so appallingly far fetched because they are infected with the same Rousseauvian fantasy of the worst leftist excess. Strip away the layers of socialization they …
“One of the Most Popular Things Our Government Has Done”
Ontario has banned pit bulls and their relatives, and says all puppies must be destroyed or sent to research labs. The above quote is from one Dalton McGuinty, the premier ofOntario, who goes on to add: “…just so you know where the majority of the public stands on this issue”. Says Dog Politics: ” We …
Mount St. Helens is Erupting
I certainly didn’t know it until I read this piece in the New York Times a couple of days ago. It has been erupting quietly for the past 15 months. A column of hardened but still hot lava is being pushed up the main tube into the crater at the rate of a cubic yard …
Dec 1 Doom, Gloom, Derb, & China News
John Derbyshire’s November Diary has plenty of China- themed worries for your delectation. Will a war break out in northeast Asia? Would we have the will to face it? Do Russia, Korea, Japan think we do? John also comments on this story of an environmental disaster, which they are handling the way they did SARS: …
Getting Ready..
Things are getting close– I leave, if all goes well, for Turkish Kurdistan (can’t call it Kurdistan over there but I guess I can here) early Tuesday morning. I am going to put a whole lot of stuff in today, but may not be able to do much more before I leave. Doubtless will have …
Read The Whole Thing
Steve’s funny catchphrase makes a good title for this one. Reid, trawling the LA Times again for good tidbits, pulled up this story by Naomi S. Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington. She begins: “A FEW YEARS BACK, I asked my undergraduates to read Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone. The class was discussing …