Yes, apparently I have now joined the rest of the Internet in posting nothing but cat videos.
21 August
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Friday, August 16, 2013
Shark-Duck-In
This year's Shark Week took on new levels of crazy and yet nature still proves that it is THE MAN, mother though it may be. From The Huffinton Post:
Awesome... unless you are either the dogfish or the menhaden, of course.
16 August 2013
Researchers at the University of Delaware's ORB LAB posted this photo of a shark within a shark on Facebook in late July. The lab memebers were using a small fish called a menhaden as bait to recapture sharks they had previously tagged.
According to the Facebook post, a 3-foot-long shark known as a dogfish swam up and snatched the bait moments before a large female sand tiger shark swallowed the dogfish.
Awesome... unless you are either the dogfish or the menhaden, of course.
16 August 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Stop and Frisk... Wall Street
John Oliver explained stop and frisk as well on The Daily Show as it has been anywhere else. And extending it to Wall Street is a stroke of genius! Well played.
15 August 2013
15 August 2013
The Olinguito
New mammal discoveries are rare now. Those as cute as the olinguito are rarer still!
15 August 2013
Addition: As long as "cute" is one the menu today, I give you Yuan Zai.
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16 August 2013 Addition: Some folks are having trouble accessing the movie above in-frame. You can follow this link to see it.
15 August 2013
Addition: As long as "cute" is one the menu today, I give you Yuan Zai.
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Catfish Roomba?
While I'm not an advocate of dressing up animals in general, much less cats, this is pretty funny.
8 August 2013
8 August 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Beautiful day, happy to have been here.
This is a fantastic obituary written by an author from Seattle. Worth the read. I first learned of it on The Huffington Post.
God speed, Ms. Lotter.
7 August 2013
God speed, Ms. Lotter.
7 August 2013
Thursday, August 1, 2013
House GOP: Truth Behind the Lie
There is a fascinating piece at TPM about the recent GOP failures in the House to push their supposed spending agendas and why these efforts -- or lack thereof -- signal that the emperor has no clothes. Talk about spending is cheap, it turns out. One can claim to want to slash spending, even to burn government to the ground. When push comes to shove, however, the House GOP cannot ever pass bills as negotiating positions with the Senate.
The GOP is splintering. Their share of the political pie is dwindling in the broader context and there is no voice strong enough within the party to unify behind. This is going to get more and more ugly and it isn't good for the nation. Within the context of a two-party system, we need two strong parties bringing their ideas to the table and then hashing out compromises using both party's philosophies. Right now, we have gridlock in its most dangerous form.
The GOP is burning itself to the ground and there is no one to blame but the party itself. It may take a decade or more for the party's decline on the national level to be complete, but it is coming. History may one day decide that this time has already come. We shall see. I just hope something better replaces the Grand Old Party. At this point, pretty much anything would be better.
Certainly, a part of me greets the GOP eating its young with glee. By and large, their ideas today are reprehensible and grossly immoral. Yet real live human beings -- my countrymen -- are being hurt economically, spiritually, and in all-too-many-cases physically. How can anyone cheer that?
1 August 2013
The GOP is splintering. Their share of the political pie is dwindling in the broader context and there is no voice strong enough within the party to unify behind. This is going to get more and more ugly and it isn't good for the nation. Within the context of a two-party system, we need two strong parties bringing their ideas to the table and then hashing out compromises using both party's philosophies. Right now, we have gridlock in its most dangerous form.
The GOP is burning itself to the ground and there is no one to blame but the party itself. It may take a decade or more for the party's decline on the national level to be complete, but it is coming. History may one day decide that this time has already come. We shall see. I just hope something better replaces the Grand Old Party. At this point, pretty much anything would be better.
Certainly, a part of me greets the GOP eating its young with glee. By and large, their ideas today are reprehensible and grossly immoral. Yet real live human beings -- my countrymen -- are being hurt economically, spiritually, and in all-too-many-cases physically. How can anyone cheer that?
1 August 2013
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