Riverside to Sequoia National Park
30 March 2006 - 07:00 pm
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Archive for March, 2006
The urbane British weekly
23 March 2006 - 01:12 pmThe Economist magazine, the urbane British weekly that has been expanding its readership in America, today named its United States editor as its new editor in chief.
Big Blue Bug
22 March 2006 - 09:44 pmThe big blue bug made it on to googlesightseeing.com.
Of Canada
20 March 2006 - 01:22 pm“I’ve turned my back on the country. It’s a little-known fact.”
- A.C. Newman
It’s been a while
19 March 2006 - 12:40 pm
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Upholding the constitution
17 March 2006 - 09:58 amOn March 1 at a Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of constitutional law at American University, was requested to testify.
He did so. At the end of his testimony, a right-wing senator said: “Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man & a woman. What do you have to say about that?”
Raskin: “Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.”
Ivory Billed Woodpecker
17 March 2006 - 09:19 amThere is a NYT article about David Sibley challenging the identification of the ivory-billed woodpecker. I don’t that think that so many people have looked so closely at such poor quality images since the Zapruder film. So I went and looked at the film myself, or at least the image captures that Sibley used for his re-analysis, in which he shows pretty persuasively that it is in fact a pileated woodpecker.
I have to say - the film is terrible. Just awful. To think that they got a paper in Science, much less $10 million for conservation based on that is appalling. Granted, I have little respect for Science as a magazine, but this takes the cake. They are seeing what they want to see, which is to say a flashy, long-thought-extinct bird.
Ironically, I have seen an ivory-billed woodpecker. It was a skin in the MCZ. Huge bird it was.