From Luisa at “Lassie Get Help” comes this irresistible compendium of breed names from actual registrations. I have heard “Datsun” for “Dachshund” myself. But how about “Winner ” or “Weiner Boy” or “Doxin” for that breed? Or “Pet Bull” or “Pul Bill” or “Pit Bowl”? How about “Crocker Spaniard” or “Shit Zoo”? More and worse– …
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Is this chameleon the shortest- lived vertebrate? Chameleons rarely live long in captivity– perhaps this is less because of bad treatment than genes! HT Lauren. A wolf shows up in northern New Mexico. I know some will find it suspicious that it arrived on Turner land, but there is no biological reason why not. For …
Beginning Training
Took Shunkar (usually known as simply “Bird ” or “Birdbrain”) out today for his fist lesson on the lure. He spent a lot of time just staring, amazed, but he was hungry and got to the lure eventually.
Sunday Links
A roundup of usual suspects, more, and worse… Derb is on the evo beat– the book he recommends sounds like a winner, and I have put it on my Wish List. But “Intelligent” Design shows no sign of going away– the bill he opposes here just passed. Are bananas about to disappear from our breakfast …
Heller
Maybe– 2 1/2?– cheers for the Heller decision. A lot of people still want to load it with enough restrictions to make it meaningless, but at least the principle is affirmed. Funny how so many people want the WRONG interpretation to be kept– even though most scholarly opinion, including that of such honest liberals as …
Bookride
Don’t know how I hadn’t found it before (or for that matter exactly how I did) but Bookride may be the best bibliophile site I have ever seen. It is written by a long- time bookseller with a shop in Charing Cross Road, for people like me– people who in the words of Albuquerque bookman …
Bird Update
They grow a lot in four weeks, don’t they?
Sheep Herding
It has been snowing on Cat Urbigkit up in Wyoming (and Peculiar on the river in Utah) but it makes the steppes green. The puppies are bonding with the sheep, and all is right with the world.
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A liberal university prof, female, decides to find out about guns and is both sane and fair, though some friends are predictably horrified. This is the fifth in a series and all are worth reading, as I suspect future installments will be, as is her regular non- gun blog, particularly good on reading and writing, …
Book Reviews
A Childhood by Harry Crews (also re-read: Florida Frenzy.) Harry Crews is probably in his seventies, a professor of writing in Florida, and grew up among the rural poor of north Florida and southern Georgia.A Childhood is his memoir of that. Somebody in the NYTBR said that it is “..about a part of America that …