Both these birds are North American Kestrels, also known as sparrow hawks. A co-worker found the younger fellow on the ground outside our office. He told me, since I’m a known sucker for animals in distress. Our best guess is that the parents may be nesting somewhere on the large four-story building. It was a [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2005 by pwyll
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Paco Malo writes
Ethics is a luxury only the powerful have. More importantly, killing commuters in London or Madrid will not get the evil capitalists off your back.
Gandhi demonstrated that ethics are not a luxury exclusive to the powerful.
I agree that killing random commuters is not an effective way to fight “evil capitalists”. [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2005 by pwyll
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Protein Wisdom suggests that the bomb, above, might serve as an object of contemplation. A memento mori which invites us to ask “Why do they hate us?”
Sure, it looks scary. But don’t despair! Instead, think of this as a way to understand the root causes of terrorism! Take a few [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2005 by pwyll
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The great ZombieTime covers an antiwar march in Berkeley, CA. Words cannot do justice to the protesters’ message. You have to see the pictures.
Posted on July 29th, 2005 by pwyll
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A reader requested some Plame coverage. I can do no better than refer him to Mark Steyn via the Chicago Sun-Times.
Karl Rove? Please. I couldn’t care less. This week finds me thousands of miles from the Beltway in what I believe the ABC World News Tonight map designates as the Rest Of The Planet, [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2005 by pwyll
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A reader asked me to post this. This reader, a friend, recently did me a favor; I am happy to reciprocate.
RENO
by Bruce Springsteen (2005)
She took off her stockings, I held them to my face.
She had your ankles, I felt filled with grace.
“Two hundred dollars straight in,
Two-fifty up the ass,” she smiled and said.
She unbuckled [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2005 by pwyll
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