As Patrick Burns is fond of saying, “The kids are alright.”Happily I know a few who are more than alright. Our campus is full of bright young people, and heralding their accomplishments is one pleasure of my job. But we encounter some rare souls who, like Steve and his blog partners (and our readers), are …
Month: May 2009
NPR Jumps Shark
As possible evidence of my mixed up political perspectives, I’m a long-time National Public Radio member. I listen to All Things Considered and A Prairie Home Companion on the way home from hunting and catch the business news on my bike commute to work. Is that weird? I’m still waiting for word on the development …
Sheep shearing
We usually try to have our sheep shorn in mid-April, but this year, we had to keep putting off shearing as we were hit with spring storm after spring storm. Even after the rains stop, the wool has to dry before we can shear. We were finally able to shear this week, just in time …
As Promised
Puppy pix! Shunkar with his dad, right up the street at Daniela’s. Irbis (brindle), Kira (red) and Jengiz (grizzle), last day together. Irbis and Kira (we kept Mr. I, and Kira went to Dave in Utah). Jengiz wrestles with a new friend at John B’s in California. That is his half- sister behind.
Russian Art
Let this one load all the way. The thing to look at is not the second rate Gorbatov imitations (the falconry one is almost a direct ripoff), but the still life pics at the bottom. I love the Russians but sometimes I don’t know quite what to say.. HT Chas
The “Mammoth Killer”
Walter Hingley sent this good collection of links, pro and con, on the possible asteroid hit that may have contributed too the late- time extinctions. Maybe we didn’t eat them all.
Dino News
Did dinosaurs go extinct 300,000 years AFTER the Chicxulub impact?? “We found that not a single species went extinct as a result of the Chicxulub impact,” said Gerta Keller, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, in a release distributed by the Geological Society of London. “These are astonishing results.” From the April 27 date …
More State Overreaching…
.. here and in England. A good update on the other disastrous bill in the House. Still ANOTHER HR atrocity: a bill to censor (among other things) the web. I know they don’t get the Second Amendment; apparently the first is missing too. The day I have to say nice things about PETA or gun …
Car Skeet
Todd Dixon sent this amazing video of a …car shoot? Funniest video since “Harden the F**K up!
Latest AR threat
HB 669 is one of the worst proposed laws yet against the ownership of animals, and would totally outlaw the breeding and transfer of ANY species deemed”exotic”. Ostensibly authored by representatives from Guam, whee they have a real problem with brown tree snakes, it would shut down the pet industry and much of falconry (NAFA …