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If you’re a dog lover, you’ll find this interesting. Bears and dogs are of the order Carnivora and the suborder, Caniform, or dog-like. Bear’s closest relatives are pinnids (walrus, sea lions, fur seals) and musteloids (red pandas, weasels, raccoons, skunks). Still, after seeing this video, you might wonder.
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First, you take a blank page.
Throw marks at it, enough to light a fire under it.
Bring to a simmer.
Stir violently. Then chase it with cars and a motorcycle.
Throw in a vampire or an alien.
Cook for 45 minutes.
Turn off the heat and let it set.
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Which reminds me, when health policy reformer Cong. Claude Pepper (D-FL) died, he went to heaven and asked God whether health reform would ever be successful in the U.S. To which God replied with good news and bad news. “The good news is, yes it will. The bad news is, not in my lifetime.” (from Dave Durenberger’s Commentary.)
Spring (pesach) Bee Hiving Moon
David Roberts, Jews Exodus from Egypt (header)
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from Nakedbrowneye:
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?”
| — | Dead Poets Society |
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New posts under Current Work: a new Metamorphoses translation, a new photoshop image, a new image and post in Art, and more on the Reimagining Faith project, work done for Groveland UU–a 3,000 word piece.
Spring Bee Hiving Moon
Saw Hunger Games tonight. This movie hits the right notes, keeps the tension on and has a hard, unblinking bravery. They didn’t go ironic with it, nor did they CGI it to death. It was a grim story, told honestly. I agree with the person who compared it favorably to Last of the Mohicans, though placed it on a lower level. It has a distinct American feel while being dystopian to the core.
Kate and I went out afterwards to Pappy’s Bar in sort of downtown Andover. We saw the movie in Andover then had burgers at Pappy’s. Relatively new, Pappy’s is an adjunct to Pappy’s Cafe, a very downhome joint. So’s the bar.
I witnessed a phenomenon, I imagine common, that I had not seen before. People went to a pull tab counter, bought the pull tabs, picked up a small plastic tub which they took back to their table and their Budweisers. Then, at least the two couples I watched would drink beer, watch gymnastics on TV and open the pull-tabs, throwing the losers in the plastic tubs. After a while, they’d get up and repeat. The men bought the pull tabs, but the women shared in the opening and discarding.
Meanwhile four fairly large middle-aged women sat on bar stools and poured’em back one after another. “We’ll be back another time. If we get home.”
Big doin’s in Andover.
Late Breaking news: as of 9 pm tonight
At noon, local time (10 p.m. ET),James Cameron ‘s “vertical torpedo” sub broke the surface of the western Pacific, carrying the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker back from theMariana Trench ‘s Challenger Deep—Earth’s deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm.
The first human to reach the 6.8-mile-deep (11-kilometer-deep) undersea valley solo, Cameron arrived at the bottom with the tech to collect scientific data, specimens, and visions unthinkable in 1960, when the only other manned Challenger Deep dive took place, according to members of the National Geographic expedition.
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An uptick continues. Melancholia seems quiet now. I’m glad.
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And if all that business about time wasn’t enough, Scientific American sticks its nose in the apocaplypse business:
The agency’s Near-Earth Objects Program head points out many fallacies, including the claim that an imaginary planet will collide with Earth in December. Thousands of astronomers have not seen this