Patrick has been kicking PETA’s collective butt lately. In this post he savages the dim- witted celebrities who speak up for the animal- exterminating ‘rights’ organization. “Then we have porn star and PETA spokes-idiot Jenna Jameson. Now I am not a connoisseour of porn, so I have to ask: is this picture of her the …
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Late (Navajo) Barbie
Reid chips in late on the NM Barbie meme, via email: “I have been so swamped I haven’t had a chance to post my contribution to New Mexico Barbies. “How about Shiprock Barbie, though her real name is Barbie Begay, and her boyfriend, Ken Yazzie. Options include Hosteen Begay’s Hogan with loom and sheep pen. …
Walk
Last week’s walk photos, as promised. Libby on the “Rio” Salado. It can be frightening in summer floods, believe it or not, but right now we can walk in it. Desert Bighorn tracks in the bottom of the box– rounder in front than mule deers’. The proprietors of Casa Q with desert tools– pack, Swaro …
Crow and Kitten
Annie D sent this remarkable video. It seems legit!
Links
Like Rebecca I have been out walking. Also gardening– it is good for the souls. There will be pictures below. Meanwhile, the usual miscellany.. Patrick links to this Telegraph story about the use of pigeons to pay kidnap ransoms in Iraq. “One family attached $10,000 in $100 notes to the legs of five homing pigeons, …
Dog walker’s license?
Sorry for this. It’s not safe for work and not good for the kids. But if you want the people of your state to need a license to walk their dogs, this is for you.
Catron County Barbie
Peculiar has called me out on the New Mexico Barbie meme: what is Catron (Cabron, Cartoon) County Barbie like? Catron County is a strange one in our strange state– I have good friends there (next county over from me) who would be unbelievable in fiction. It is high and cold and mountainous, contains a few …
More Dog Control (and related misunderstandings)
Dog owners in Toronto are no longer allowed to walk bitches in heat or any unaltered males in parks, period, full stop. Canadian saluki breeder Maril Semph sent text from a friend but no link: “Effective February 01 2008 Toronto did ban all intact male dogs and females in season, not just from off-leash dog …
New Links
Blogging will continue to be a bit light as I am busy, am trying to get outside, and have Chas and Miss M coming tomorrow. But the world keeps producing the fascinating and the maddening… Science fiction giant Arthur Clarke died this week. John Derbyshire has a good quirky remembrance of him here. I think …
The Virtue of Vices?
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 …