Reader and borzoi breeder Rey McGehee finds some attributed wisdom from H$U$ prez Wayne Pacelle. “The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.”— Wayne Pacelle, Associated Press, Jan. 15, 1989 And again, lest you think he spoke without thinking of the implications: The life of an ant …
Author: Steve Bodio
Growing “Meat”
Artificial meat— or more acurrately “test tube meat” — rears its ugly head again. I suspect if this ever becomes a reality it will give AR people another club to beat us with. And can you imagine the esthetics? Notice they couldn’t bring themselves to actually EAT it.
“Creatures”
From the unique blog Laputan Logic (which I should blogroll) comes this group of– sculptures?– that move across the beaches of holland. I don’t know what to call them but I think they are wonderful.
Girls With Guns
The incomparable Tam, queen of snark and Mistress of Coal Creek Armory, deconstructs a breathless and idiotic piece on female shooters. “Why is it that when some bright spark in the marketing department at Apple, Cannondale, or Pontiac notices that slightly more than 50% of the planet’s population is setters rather than pointers, it gets …
Risotto and Rice Fetishism
Reid sent this LAT food column on risotto (which I still call “risott’ ” in the mountain dialect of my grandparents) for my comment. What did I think? Well, you’d certainly get a good dish if you followed the cook’s advice. But he sure takes it solemnly (not at all the same as seriously). I …
Scarier than Flu..
I share Pluvialis’s mixture of dread and fascination with various high- tech military innovations. Here is uber- blogger Glenn Reynolds over at TCS with some terrifying new info on biowar bugs. And, on a slightly (perhaps) lighter note: insect cyborgs.
Flu Update
It seems most scientists are a lot less panicked by Bird Flu than the press or, worse, European governments are. Here is the latest by the NYT’s invaluable Nicholas Wade on why the number of mutations needed for H5 to become pandemic is less than likely to occurr. Most likely we’ll eventually be attacked by …
“Foodies” vs AR?
I don’t particularly like the pop term “foodies”, but when a phenomenon involves New York and Berkeley, I am tempted… Even as the coursing battle heats up, no fewer than three books defending hunting and “scavenging” (to use the author’s own term) in the strongest terms are being published, virtually simultaneously. Pehaps the wildest of …
Update
I know my posting has been patchy of late. Part of the problem is that I have been very involved in the approaching showdown over California coursing ban. I am also spinning my wheels trying to get a novel started. But part of the problem is simply this: it is spring, after one of my …
Not Much Time
Stop the California coursing ban!