I hate to keep harping on this boring but ominous issue– I’d much prefer to link to weird biology or pontificate on poetry. But. To once again use that Trotsky quote, substituting “AR” for “war”, you may not be interested in AR, but it is interested in you. This morning, The Lady With the Funny …
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Anti- Dog Dog Laws
From the Sportsman’s and Animal Owners Voting Alliance, the latest on the LA dog ordinance: “Los Angeles County has passed an ordinance that requires all dogs to be sterilized and microchipped, effective June 3, 2006. It applies only to those dogs kept in unincorporated areas, but cities such as Los Angeles are being urged to …
Eagles vs. Indians
Some imp of perversity makes me think that it is a bit funny when two darlings of political correctitude seem to go up against each other. And anyone who reads this blog regularly knows I am a “science guy” who is respectful of religion. But this is just stupid. If Indians can kill eagles without …
Are we competent today?
Rod Dreher wonders. “It occurred to me last evening that when my father, who is 71, dies, an entire body of knowledge will die with him. He grew up in the rural South during the Great Depression. He can do any practical thing. He knows how to grow anything, how to kill and skin wild …
Serious Pig
(To quote John Thorne, whom you should definitely read…) The New Yorker has put up Bill Buford’s essay on learning how to be a Tuscan- style butcher (he used to be the editor of Granta, but this is a long way from haut- lit). It will be part of this book, which I have already …
Dog Whisperer
Apparently I am the last person on the planet NOT to have heard of this guy. Apparently AR people don’t like him, which might incline me in his favor if it were not for all the @#$%^&* CELEBRITIES who endorse him. But– what’s all this about being out in front of your dog? It may …
Decreasing Speciation?
Reid sent me this article by science writer Carl Zimmer (he’s good– Darren quotes his book on primitive whales and whale evo elsewhere). It is an interesting article, but I have some reservations. I wrote to Reid: “Interesting, and I like Zimmer, but I have my doubts. Not that the effect mentioned by Zimmer doesn’t …
Re- filling the Sea
Kazakhstan is, succesfully, beginning to re- fill their portion of the Aral Sea. “Now, thanks to a new 8-mile-wide dam and other projects by the Kazakh government and the World Bank, the northern part of the Aral is filling again with fresh water. That in turn is restoring hope and a modest degree of prosperity …
“Crotalia”
Chas has survived a rattler bite. He got it in the territory of the alpha Enviro– not here, where he also visited, though our five species make us a slightly lesser province of Crotalia…
Good News for Scavengers
Via Pluvialis: India has banned the chemical that was more than decimating its vultures and making the Towers of Silence very nasty and even more silent. I wrote about the problem here in The Atlantic a few years ago…