From Dan Greenberg at the Chronicle of Higher Education‘s blog “Brainstorm: Lives of the Mind” comes a recent essay on what science ought to be discovering: “We can all think of blockbuster discoveries that we’d like to see coming from science. Cures for terrible diseases would rank very high on the list. So would abundant …
Author: Matt Mullenix
Addiction
(from http://xkcd.com/) Do you ever feel like this? I know I do! Food blogger Mark Bittman apparently has it even worse. Time to go work in the garden. Update: Rod has a more sober take here. (Steve– put in by Matt who knows how to insert cartoons.)
Sighthound Trials / Blogger Meet-up
I took the family (Maggie and B above with puppy friends) to Bush, Louisiana, yesterday for an afternoon of lure coursing, and (as it happened) sunburn—Summer is very nearly here. Our whippet’s breeders Debbie and Maurice Bahm of DebMar kennels hosted the event on their own property, recently cleared with help from Hurricane Katrina. Although …
Running for Rabbits
I told Steve this might be the quintessential Querencia story. I mean it covers special places, foodways, hunting, paleo-history, culture, more and certainly, worse. It is a story so politically incorrect that it simply has no political context in which to fit. It is a story out of time. From my point of vantage, locked …
Stuff Falconers Like
Have you seen the recent spate of funny (and distinctly un-PC) blogs featuring “Stuff ____ People Like,” where various races and ethnic groups fill in the blanks? 2Blowhards provides a short list here. This got me thinking about a new meme: Stuff Falconers Like. You could tailor it to any pastime I suppose, although I …
Late entry
I just got around to posting a couple of Steve’s pics in a blog below “Seasons Change.” Scroll on down and check it out.
Seasons change
My young Harris, Ernie, has been gaining weight on a steady diet of thawed cotton rats, the by-product of six months’ field work on birds and rabbits—His first season of falconry ended two weeks ago. Today Ernie is almost 200 grams over hunting weight (which, he being such a tame hawk, was never very low); …
Daily Show: Pacelle “More of a gatherer…”
Anne D. sent this link to a Daily Show segment featuring (lampooning, actually) a PA attempt to legalize for hunting the ancient projectile weapon known as the atlatl. A local atlatl enthusiast finds himself ribbed by Daily Show field correspondent Jason Jones and takes it in stride. Providing the counter argument is well-coifed HSUS President …
Beef Recall for Cruelty Concerns
Humane Society of the United States President Wayne Pacelle, enemy of so many good things—dogs, cats, horses, hunting, eating meat, private ownership and the American way—maybe got this one right. Due to complaints filed by HSUS about conditions in a California slaughterhouse, 143 million pounds of beef are being recalled from shelves across the country. …
Letting the cold in
Our Louisiana parish (read “county”) of East Baton Rouge voted Saturday to approve the construction of its third casino resort, this one a 540 acre development to include a 100 room hotel, a river boat gambling venue and a 3,700 space parking lot. All of it will go in about a mile north of this …