The road runs straight south from the ancient city of Sanliurfa in Turkey (actually “Urfa”– the title is a post- Ataturk designation) to a border, or, in our fraught times, perhaps, a BORDER, like our southern one. The land is almost flat, dry, but productive since the dam on the Euphrates, which drowned may old …
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At Atomic Nerds, LabRat has a fascinating post on dogs and the sense of “self” : “We used to assume no animal but humans had a sense of humor, until we thought to thoroughly test that assumption, and we found otherwise. We used to think no other animal used tools, until we looked and found …
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 …
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A wonderful ancient sculpture. All- female lizard clone species. Several of these are common in the Magdalena area. Terrierman talks about veterinarian bill- padding, kickbacks etc. Luckily ours is an old- fashioned ranch woman– but I have seen both the demand for pre- op bloodwork and the referral kickback. Did a comet contribute to the …