Friday, November 22, 2024

Religion Pales Next to the Continuity of Dogs

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

The Continuing Trump Shit Show

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I’ve been knocking around the zoo of DC public policy and law for a long time, so I have stories…. The latest story is an old one about Pa...

The Future

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Obsession

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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

The Lying Police of the Police State

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It is always good to remember that in the warped world of policing, lying to witnesses is considered a core competency of the job, and lyin...
Monday, November 18, 2024

Robots as Leader

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Source : https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-use-robot-fish-to-lead-golden-shiner-school/

Fighting the Great White

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“A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.” – Keith Richards

Snitches Everywhere

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Sunday, November 17, 2024

Billionaires Create the Frame

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Saturday, November 16, 2024

Keeping Up with the Apps

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▪️I'm on Threads as >> terrierp.burns  ▪️ I’m on BlueSky as >> terriermanpburns
Friday, November 15, 2024

American Evangelicals

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You will obey your führer!  You will not question authority , you will believe in the absence of evidence, you will donate without audit and...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Plunder As a Way of Life

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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system tha...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Puppy Killer to Head Homeland Security

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Kristi Noem is perfect.   If she’ll shoot her young dog in the head because she could not train it, you know she’s perfect for massive dete...
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The American Cult of Ignorance

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thre...

If I Were a Rich Man

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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

“Indian Reserve”

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A 1775 map of British North America , with the Thirteen Colonies shown in red. From Wikipedia: The  Royal Proclamation of 1763  was issued...
Monday, November 11, 2024

AKC Registrations Back in Decline

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Dennis Sprung, Chairman of the AKC , writes in the current (November) “To the Core” email: “AKC registrations are down significantly from th...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Your Ancestors Needed to Go Somwhere Else

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“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many p...
Saturday, November 09, 2024

American Suicide

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"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist th...

The View Across the Road

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The farm across the road is always beautiful at sunset, with the mountains in the back, rolling meadows and a small stock pond, and a hedge...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Last of the Soy

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Combine taking off the last of the soybeans this evening.  The fields are well groomed after harvest, and I suspect no-till winter wheat...
Thursday, November 07, 2024

Paddle and Peddle With the Wee Wolves

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I paddled 10 miles down river and then peddled on bicycle 10 miles back up to the car. The dogs were passengers on both legs.  A crew was a...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

All I’ve Got Today

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Tuesday, November 05, 2024

Celebration :: David Mallett

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The Trash of Billionaires

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“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of...
Monday, November 04, 2024

23 Bushes In, 25 More to Go

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Four potted bushes in , four pots of rocks out. I'm digging holes three times bigger than the pots, and filling in with soil from the h...
Sunday, November 03, 2024

Pit Bulls Are a Type Older Than Jesus

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This Sicilian mosaic is over 1,700 years old, and shows the same dog, of the same size, used for the same purpose that it is today.
Saturday, November 02, 2024

A Nugget in the Pan Is a Good Prospect

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IOWA HAS SWUNG 22 POINTS since June , and Harris is now in the lead. Amazing.   Iowa is as rock-ribbed Republican as any state in the nat...
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American Girl

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Love this!

An Existential Election

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Every Text Message These Days

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“We’ll be blunt. We’re worried about the quarterly fundraising reports that just came out. “We can catch up in these final hours, but we nee...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Gone, But Not Forgotten

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Roman marble gravestone for a dog named Aminnaracus. From Rome, 1st-2nd century AD. Located in National Museum Wales.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Seven In, and Forty-One To Go

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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

One Week to the Election

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It’s one week to the election , and I am * guaranteed * to be wrong, but here’s how I think  it’s going. ▪️I’m expecting an early evening i....

My Enthusiasm Exceeds My Capacity

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I picked up 48 potted bushes acquired by online auction, sight unseen, from a Virginia nursery going out of business due to a road expansio...
Monday, October 28, 2024

Temp Job

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Titanic’s boiler rooms. There were six boiler rooms that held 29 boilers manned by 179 men who moved 600 tonnes of coal a day.

Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Sunday, October 27, 2024

The Immortals Live Among Us

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See >>  https://tinyurl.com/55sku9ny

Trump Backer Meets Trump Banker

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Flip The Script

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Saturday, October 26, 2024

Walking Cures a Lot

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"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I h...
Friday, October 25, 2024

New Camera Trap Manual

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Cris Wemmer, who is a biologist , wildlife conservation consultant, and retired Smithsonian scientist who ran the rare animal Smithsonian ...
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The Best Hitler Is a Dead Hitler

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UNLIKE TRUMP , I don’t like Nazi generals that lose. I LIKE AMERICAN generals that win by killing Nazis. These are the generals of Antifa, ...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Coffee Is America’s Favorite Bean Soup

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Legend has it that the coffee plant was first discovered in Ethiopia by a goat herder who found his charges a little too animated after eat...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

The Tree of Life is Self-pruning

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Lizard Brains Armed With Chainsaws

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“The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” — E. O. Wilson