John Derbyshire’s November Diary has plenty of China- themed worries for your delectation. Will a war break out in northeast Asia? Would we have the will to face it? Do Russia, Korea, Japan think we do? John also comments on this story of an environmental disaster, which they are handling the way they did SARS: …
Author: Steve Bodio
Getting Ready..
Things are getting close– I leave, if all goes well, for Turkish Kurdistan (can’t call it Kurdistan over there but I guess I can here) early Tuesday morning. I am going to put a whole lot of stuff in today, but may not be able to do much more before I leave. Doubtless will have …
In Memoriam: Matt’s Dog “Meng”
Kipling’s “The Power of the Dog”: There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and women to fill our day;And when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers and sisters, I bid you bewareOf giving your heart to a dog to tear. Buy a pup and your money …
ID Humor
Scientist, writer, and artist John McLoughlin (who should be better known– I am a great fan of his science fiction novel The Helix and the Sword, as are Odious and Peculiar) has sent me two irreverent little pieces on Intelligent Design. The first I reprint in full: “from the Institute for Science and Stork Research: …
Typos
Please be indulgent of spacing, double and missing letters etc for the present–it’s my #$%^&* keyboard, which is almost unmanageable (only on my posts). Reid tried to fix one of my posts below and lost half of it. So did I, and had to rewrite it THREE TIMES. This too shall pass…
As Others See Us…
Writer- Falconer- Blogger Rebecca O’Connor of Operation Desert Duck visited last week, and wrote these impressions of our Querencia.
One for Fun
Courtesy of the Alpha E, a test of whether you can shoot locks open the way they do in the movies. Hint: it ain’t easy. Some folks have ENTIRELY too much time on their hands..
Thanksgiving Dinner
Instead of turkey– broken-down vehicles preclude a trip to Albuquerque for a good one– we are having two ducks done according to our grease-spattered copy of Julia Childs’ The Way to Cook. The birds are lightly roasted; then the breasts are sliced and sauteed in wine and butter until they are just barely cooked. Meanwhile, …
Fear of Turkeys
The natives of Canton Massachusetts, where I actually used to hunt, are being terroriized by turkeys. ” “Those turkeys terrify me,” Canton resident Judy Klein told the local newspaper, the Patriot Ledger. ” “The turkeys have become a public safety problem,” Canton Animal Control officer Ellen Barnett said. “Saturday’s Patriot Ledger revealed that, during the …
The ASPCA…
…wants the feds to tell you how many dogs you can have.