I am sorry, but I think this article on NM’s anti- cockfight crusade can be quoted to make its own argument against the ban. “After two weeks of preparation, 150 officers, backed up by a helicopter, slipped into this sleepy desert town. Their focus was not illegal immigration or drug smuggling, but a less pressing …
Independence Day
From the Mullenix homestead on the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee River, about half way up the state’s western border, Happy Independence Day to all. We’ve got four generations milling about today, all eating hotdogs, hogging the pool and chasing the borzoi around to make him drop the sunscreen. I hope everyone is spending the …
Breed Names
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– …
More Links
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 …
Steampunk?
Could this be the new counterculture? Someone born before 1970, help me out, here. I’m too young to have known the last one. They call it steampunk, an aesthetic and a subculture “that simultaneously embraces burlap and iPhones.” Whatever it is, I kind of like it. This more-than-retro computer keyboard first caught my eye. Then …
No-so-undiscovered tribe
The news we passed along a couple weeks ago regarding the “discovery” of an unknown rainforest tribespeople turns out to have been fabricated, somewhat. In fact, the people are real, but their existence and location have been known for 100 years. Evidently, the photographer felt it was time to give rainforest protection another PR shot …
Friday Feeder Friend
Squirrelus americanus. This poor fellow was quite frustrated trying to get into the squirrel-proof feeder. But judging from the chewed up cones under our pine trees, he’s doing okay in the pine nut line.