BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

EXTREME GARDENING


TOTAL WASTE OF TIME!(?)





EVEN FUN!(?)




CANARY


IN A COAL MINE


"“But since there’s only so much water in the world, and it’s been through somebody’s body or some other place over the past 250 million years, maybe it’s not that bad. At least, it might be better than desalination.”"
Arid Australia Turns to Desalination, at a Cost - NYTimes.com


"The loss of the little brown myotis and other bats affected by white-nose would be particularly catastrophic for humans, Frick said, because bats eat their body weight in bugs each night. Many of these bugs are agricultural pests or carriers of human disease."

Common Brown Bat Will Be Extinct in 16 Years White-nose Syndrome Fungus Killing Bats LiveScience:


"“We are not going to stop selling a couple of styles of felt soles for the near future,” he said."

Fly Fishers Serving as Transports for Noxious Little Invaders - NYTimes.com:
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"One thing I like about the Digital age: having the dictionary at my fingertips, how easy it is to look up unfamiliar words as I go along reading." "At least....... until, I played my first game of SCRABBLE on the internet. Wow! I had no idea you could spell so many words with seven letters every time." "Now I feel pressured to catch up!"