Yesterday, there was a big gizzard shad die-off in Cherry Creek in Denver, and the Colorado Divison of Wildlife, with their usual intelligence and wisdom, declared it to be a natural event based on the color and smell of the water: "The color looks fine. We don't smell anything in the water," DOW District Wildlife Manager Vicki Vargas-Madrid said. And another DOW rep had this to say: A major fish kill that occurred in Cherry Creek in downtown Denver today was a "natural occurring event," according to Jennifer Churchill of the Colorado Division of Wildlife. The fish that died were young gizzard shad, which ...
Archive for October, 2009
Biologist or bloodhound?
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool
Sunday, October 18th, 2009From Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool by George Orwell (bolded emphasis is mine): A sort of doubt has always hung around the character of Tolstoy, as round the character of Gandhi. He was not a vulgar hypocrite, as some people declared him to be, and he would probably have imposed even greater sacrifices on himself than he did, if he had not been interfered with at every step by the people surrounding him, especially his wife. But on the other hand it is dangerous to take such men as Tolstoy at their disciples' valuation. There is always the possibility - the ...
Shutup About Your “Issues”
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Here's an apparently popular Facebook poll a friend took and published to his wall: L. responded 'Yes' L. voted in the poll: "Do you beleive abortion should be legalized nationally? " along with 56712 other people. And here's a newsflash for a country suffering from historical Alzheimer's:
The pot calling the kettle black
Sunday, October 4th, 2009According to Reuters, "California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Thursday that movie director Roman Polanski should be treated like anyone else if he came to the United States to face sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977." Shouldn't Schwarzenegger be given "no special treatment" for his former drug use then?
Just Say No!
Sunday, October 4th, 2009There was an interview posted a couple of days ago with Senator Tom Carper about the legislative text of the health care reform bills currently being debated in Congress. It's quite enlightening about just how dysfunctional the Congress is. "I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life." If legislative language is confusing for a lawmaker, then why is he a legislator?
How do you spell that town down the road?
Friday, October 2nd, 2009From Reuters comes this article: "Tire, Lebanon (Reuters) - A protest by Muslim clerics torpedoed a Brazilian samba show in the Lebanese city of Tire on Thursday, local officials said."