- Tough American Women: A 61-year-old woman was forced to strangle a rabid fox with her bare hands when the animal attacked her in her Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania backyard last week. (Hat tip to J.R. Absher at the Outdoor Pressroom).
.. - Juvenile Hoodlam Coyotes: Camera Trap Codger has some nice pictures of coyotes at a stage in their life which is all too fleeting.
. - It's All About the Hats: If someone will buy me a $53,000 falconry hood for my bird, I promise I will take up the sport.
. - Marlin Racing: Scientists are tracking 10 marlin as part of the 2010 Great Marlin Race, with the results posted to the Internet. Last year, three marlins swam across the equator, from Hawaii to the Marquesas Islands, a distance of over 1,850 miles.
. - Ugandan Wildlife Bounces Back: People forget that we shot out nearly everything in this country between 1850 and 1900, and it was only after 1950 that things began to roar back to life. The moral of the story: Mother Nature is as tough as an old boot, provided we will take our foot off her neck. A case in point can be seen in Uganda, where wildlife populations are rebounding after just 10 years of poacher suppression. The BBC report some species numbers have doubled during that 10-year period. Amazing, and let's hope that the value of tourism illuminates the value in keeping it up.
. - Best Idea Ever: Pharmaceutical-grade caffeinated brownies.
. - That's the Way I Flow: Chas Clifton has a great post and map over on his blog about the FIVE continental divides that exist in North America. Parts of Minnesota are in three of them. Check it out!
. - Catching Up With Aristotle: Aristotle thought the European brown hare could get pregnant while already pregnant. Now, only 2,000 years later, we know he is right...
.. - An Ancient Chihuahua Breaded a Macaw? Well, something like that. Bred actually. And the Chihuahua in question is a person living in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico prior to Columbus. And yes, they were apparently breeding tropical rain forest birds in the scrub desert. Welcome to stone-age commerce.
. - Tigers Above 12,000 Feet? Yes, apparently there are tigers high up in the mountains of Bhutan. And, believe it or not, tigers, leopards, and snow leopards are actually found in the same valley! Not a good place to be a deer, I imagine!
.. - Fishing With LSD: From Sports Illustrated. Because you know they know fishing.
.. - Beer Sellers Oppose Marijuana Legalization: Another reason to support legalizing reefer if you ask me.
. - American Millions Go to Wombat Awareness: An American has left $8 million to a "Wombat Awareness" organization in Australia.
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4 comments:
Uganda might get more tourism if they quit threatening to kill/imprison people based on orientation.
Yes, but that could be said about Montana too. Read the GOP state platform in that state >> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gays_in_montana
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Sign me up for a platter of those LSD fish with a brownie chaser. Nothing like an awesome trip that lasts a REALLY long time!
Seahorse ;)
Canada has always been a bit ahead of the US when it comes to common sense legislation - what I mean is that until recently, our politics were quite dry compared to your own. The craziness quotient seems to be several notches below the US government. (Which also is why I follow US politics closer than my own - your guys are WAY more entertaining).
What I'm getting to is that you'll have a hope of legalizing/decriminalizing marijuana after we do. And we will, it's just a matter of time.
We abolished slavery first, we give our people the medical care and assistance they need no matter who they are or where they come from or how much money they have, and we legalized teh gay so long ago most Canadians don't even know that gay marriage is protected here by federal laws.
Marijuana is next on the list, and thanks to our politicians getting unruly and trying to be all American Senator-y are using the issue to stand out. Once that happens, it's only a matter of time - imagine the flood of weed over the border if we legalized it.
Frankly it's always driven me nuts that I can legally give myself cancer with a cigarette or drink myself to death, but I can't smoke a joint which by comparison is a placebo.
Sorry for the length, but this is one of those common sense things that should have been dealt with years ago - imagine how much money both countries would save, removing the law enforcement, court time, legal aid and imprisonment costs for every person busted in possession of a particular weed. Billions and billions that could go to, I don't know, say health care?
Crazy, I know. Common sense, as we all know, is in short supply in government these days.
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