That Time of Year

One upside to the worst Baton Rouge hurricane in 60 years? Lots of free firewood. I’ve been stocking my woodpile for a couple weekends now, tooling around in my “Suburban” and sawing up stray limbs. Granted, it’s a wee pile compared to Steve’s, but it’s enough for a few late evenings around our little boutique …

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A Few Thoughts on Politics

What is it with people this year? I never could get that passionate about electoral politics. Or dream of distorting facts to bolster my candidate. Have you seen Naomi Wolfe on how “Evita” Palan is the stalking horse for the new fascism, how this will be the last election of our lifetime, and how she …

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But first, a few links…

… to amuse or appall… Amuse and amaze: Annie D and a few others sent this incredible video of dolphins blowing and playing with “smoke rings” of bubbles. There are quite a few more out there on YouTube including one of belugas in Japan. A bit of serious geekery from XKCD. “Do not put…” A …

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News

Sorry for light posting. Still haven’t found the bird. Realistically I am not sure what to expect. Of the longwings I have flown in the last 15 years or so, all but one were out at least overnight, and all but one of those eventually returned. Also, in one of the more notorious cases in …

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Why I have been absent

I have been off chasing a lost hawk and have had to complete three chapters for a proposal. The latter is done today. Will return…

Links & More– (Mostly Bio Stuff)

Glad to know Matt weathered this storm– let’s hope they do as well in the coming one(s). Reid is up to his ass in metaphorical alligators but is well and we hope for his return soon.I am now writing three more (long) chapters for my at- some- time- to- be- revealed project that has been …

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After Gustav

We spent the worst part of the storm in my wife’s office, which is built like a bomb shelter and might be one, for all I know. It’s old enough. We could hear nothing from the inside, despite hours of wind and a gust nearing 100 mph recorded a couple hundred yards from our location. …

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Couldn’t have said it better

From Peculiar: “I really don’t hope for much these days in terms of taxation, liberty, shrewd foreign policy, immigration, &c. About the acme of my fondest hopes for the next administration is a Forest Service with a reasonable budget and some BLM personnel with detectable humanity. I do think Palin has a certain amount of …

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Lobster Mushrooms

One of the best, and strangest. Our fellow Mycophile Simon Armijo picked these in the White Mountains of Arizona just over the border from us. We haven’t seen them in the local ranges– maybe they need to be just a bit wetter or higher. The weirdest thing about them is that they parasitize other mushrooms, …

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Food Stuff: Omnivory

Both Peculiar and Rod Dreher have linked to “The Omnivore’s Hundred”. Im not sure posting the whole list here wouldn’t knock off too much below, but it is wonderful (not all fancy, not all weird, though plenty of both, from fugu to MacDonald’s.) I scored a respectable 79, but now I have to look for …

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