Archive for June, 2008
What I’ve noticed
Dave on right wing crap That’s how right-wing crap works. It’s not meant to advance or even partake of discourse; it’s meant to end it. One can argue the worth of Hillary’s policies or her voting record or her position on the war till the cows come home; but when she’s reduced to being a […]
Pinyon confusion…
Pinyon pine cover quite a bit of the west. Economically, they’re good for pine nuts and fence posts. Ecologically, of course, they’re a lot more important than that. They’re also very important in figuring out what the climate was like a long time ago since their needles can be found in packrat middens dating back […]
John McCain would be a scary president
Lindsay Beyerstein at Majikthise has some good posts up about John McCain. One of John McCain’s closest advisors helped reshape finance law in a way that led to the Enron diaster and the current economic crisis. McCain is very good at manipulating the press. He doesn’t think there’s a constitutional right to privacy. He finally […]
War isn’t good for people
Since the military isn’t doing enough to care for the mental health of our soldiers, private counselors are offering free help to veterans. Suicide rates are way up in the military right now, which is probably indicative of how much help our veterans are going to need when they get back. It’s not really surprising […]
New theme!
I know it’s been less than three months since I changed my blog theme, but I don’t like things the same all the time and my furniture is too heavy to move by myself. So if you use a feed reader, drop by and check out my pretty new page.
Festival of the Trees
There’s a new edition of Festival of the Trees up at Wrenaissance Reflections. Go read it! The best bits: Cutting down forests might kill you at Via Negativa. Getting rid of mangroves did kill people in Burma at Living the Scientific Life. Beautiful pictures of new leaves at Seeded Earth.
70 degrees in Flagstaff
Good weather is finally here.