This is a fun thing from Defenders of Wildlife, whose current projects include working to end aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska and the slaughter of wolves in in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Wyoming, trying to prevent the extinction of Florida panthers and protect polar bears from global warming (and Big Oil’s disastrous drilling plans). Watch me turn into aJaguar at YouWild.org Now… watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat (obscure reference to amuse my…
The trouble with philosophical abstraction is that it tries to create a space separated from the world. The metaphor of the slippery slope, for example, has become almost literal. That’s why it is often effective. Who wants to slide down a slippery slope? What is unstated but operative is that this metaphor encourages the reader/hearer to assume – without question – that there exists a place that is not slippery, where one cannot slide or fall. In our complex world…
I’ve found a poem I wrote in 1978. That makes it the earliest one that I still have. It’s called Water Sprite.
A study conducted by UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle. For example: If she is ovulating, she is attracted to men with rugged and masculine features. However, if she is menstruating, or menopausal, she tends to be more attracted to a man with duct tape over his mouth and a spear lodged in his chest while he…
Ominous development… Fifteen British Royal Marines on patrol in the Persian Gulf have been “seized” by the Iranian navy, the British Ministry of Defense said. The Marines were “engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters,” the ministry said in a statement on Friday. A U.S. military official who monitors the region told CNN the Marines stopped an Iranian ship suspected of smuggling automobiles, and boarded it for an inspection. While the Marines were on board,…
Yes, there is plenty to blog on today. Politics, catching up with some Jehovah’s Witnesses in the news, activist links… I spent much of yesterday proofreading my son’s elementary school yearbook. Today, it was just too gorgeous not to play and be happy. Since I didn’t have to go to work (at my part-time job), I’ve been playing hooky. I planted caladium and candytuft and dianthus and hostas and impatiens and a big patch of ever-bearing strawberries. I’ve now got…