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I continue to have a problem with viable, fertile offspring from x-species sex. [via Eliot]
10/31/2009
links for 2009-10-31
10/27/2009
links for 2009-10-27
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"Yaaayh for Edward Gorey and a Happy Samhain to all!!" [Thank you, Ginger!]
10/25/2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-25
- Happy 6013th Birthday to the Earth!
# - RT @consumerreports Should you get the swine flu shot? http://bit.ly/YWUQi #h1n1 #
- 14 great Cthulhu toys that make devouring souls fun http://bit.ly/1JCQ9t #halloween #samhain #
- Blissful day in southern Nevada. Amount of bliss is directly proportional to distance from political news. #lalalala #
- RT @DesertBeacon RT @CelluloidBlonde: Remember the senators who voted FOR gang rape http://l.pr/a45ek #p2 #kbr #halliburton #
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10/21/2009
Eight Years Ago…
My son Ian is eight today. Wow, that went fast! It seems doubly strange to stand the weblog-thing beside my son. I think he looks better! [Than the blog.]
It seems like just yesterday… The event was covered by this blog and even made the Weblogs.com “Top 100,” which was a page ranking system prior to Technorati, which I think is also gone.
Hrmph, that’s making me feel older.
[I just finished baking two dozen cupcakes for his party tomorrow. 
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10/20/2009
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[from 2004, but still pertinent]
"Liberals in the United States have been losing political debates to conservatives for a quarter century. In order to start winning again, liberals must answer two simple questions: what is conservatism, and what is wrong with it? As it happens, the answers to these questions are also simple:
Q: What is conservatism?
A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.
Q: What is wrong with conservatism?
A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world."
10/18/2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-18
- RT @buzzflash: Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks; Where the F was this 5-10-15 years ago? http://bit.ly/3VaT0b #p2 #
- RT @huffingtonpost: PHOTOS: Countdown to Diwali, Festival of Lights http://bit.ly/305j6k #
- RT @davidsirota: Why cons loved W: A perfect mix of willfully stupid, stubborn & intensely arrogant, exactly what most rank-and-file cons r #
- Audrey is off to Portland, OR, for GSA meetings & volcano hazard monitoring training in Vancouver, WA. It will be Ian and I for a week. #
- All the #hcr drama is making my brain lock up. Let me know what the vote is, I can't watch anymore. #
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10/16/2009
10/15/2009
Climate Change and Blog Action Day
[Blog Action Day] Climate Change presupposes that there is some sort of change coming in the status quo of climate not-change. And to a large extent, that is the case. I studied a variety of subjects but mostly circled around the most recent 25,000 years of this planet’s history. Lots of climate change there in those 25 millennia.
One thing is certain, and that is that climate change means changes in our world. Big changes. My experience covers things like woodlands becoming grasslands, and deserts emerging where herds of animals once grazed. Coastlines changed drastically as ocean levels went down when much of the northern hemisphere was covered with as much as 3 kilometers of ice.
When the average temperature rose again, millions of square miles of coast where animals (and humans) doubtlessly lived were again submerged as all that ice melted into the world’s oceans.
Relatives of ours, Neanderthals, disappeared. Lots of very conspicuous animals — huge grazers like mammoth and mastodons, woolly rhinoceros, giant ground sloths, and the predators that were dependent on them like saber-tooth cats, dire wolves, other cats and canine relatives — became extinct.
This particular episode will likely be unsurpassed since any in the last 7,000 years. It will be interesting, but not in a good way. More like the Chinese proverb, “May you live in interesting times.”
Perhaps we will go extinct…
10/11/2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-10-11
- WTF Obama? RT @mr_random: Interesting! President Obama won't meet with Dalai Lama. Doesn't wanna piss China off? http://bit.ly/3EzjUb #
- RT @KatrinaNation The next big fight. Don't let organized greed vanquish disorganized democracy! http://bit.ly/3ua2px #p2 #
- RT @dresdencodak If you want to realistically combat global warming, invest in the exponentially improving solar panels #ss09 #
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