Is it the ultimate home school? Is it a new Spielberg film? Or is it…..

Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt, seeker of ancient agricultural origins, got his work written up in the New York Times. This is new information putting the domestication of squash … one of the key New World Crops … at 10,000 years ago in the Andes.
Personally, I’ve been seeing a pattern for years: The early […]

The NYT is running a piece discussing the domestication of the cat.
I love watching wild cats. It is fairly easy to see them in the Kalahari, where the population of cats is almost certainly untouched by genetics of any domesticated form. Despite the kitty-osity shown in the photograph provided with the […]

You already know this, but in case you don’t:

Blog Against Theocracy … get the details.

Just prior to becoming a presidential candidate, Saint Giuliani made this statement:
The idea of trying to cast blame on Clinton [for the 9/11 attacks] is just wrong for many, many reasons, not the least of which is I don’t think he deserves it.
But last Tuesday, in a speech at Pat Robertson’s Regent University he blamed […]

Scene: Berkeley, California, April 1986. A bar. Five conference attendees, myself included, grabbing a hamburger and a beer in a fern-bar on or near Telegraph.
All eyes are on the TV’s mounted over the bar, where we watch footage of an air strike against Lybia. This is the retribution by […]

… because it used to be EXTINCT!
But then, it got better.
From the National Geographic:
The rare recurve-billed bushbird, recently rediscovered by scientists in Colombia after a 40-year absence, sports a curving beak that gives the illusion of an enigmatic smile.
This photograph, taken by a conservationist with the Colombia-based nonprofit Fundación ProAves, is the first ever taken […]

Mika Brzezinski, of MSNBC, refuses to report, let alone lead with, the “Paris Hilton” story. Attempts to light story on fire. Puts the story in the shredder. And despite efforts to force her to do the story … well, you’ll see:

… a.k.a. “The Best Laid Plans” … is up at Paul Ollig’s site, The Wandering Tattler.
Click on Frodo to go to the I and the Bird Blog Carnival…

I can’t count how many times I’ve been told by an Australian, a Canadian, a South African, a Tanzanian, or some other person from a country other than the USA that “You Americans are all the same … you think this Republican/Democratic difference is some big deal but really there is no difference.”
How […]

Remember the 15 year old kid who performed a Caesarean (under his parent’s supervision, I quickly add) in order that he make the Guinness Book of World Records? (Homeschooled Surgeon?)
He’s on the lamb.
Raj Sekharan, of the southern Tamil stte, had indicated tht the boy is gone, and that they are looking for him. […]

Thank you Bob!
Everybody go read Bob’s Comment and click on the link he provides. I don’t have the YouTube code or I’d put it up. For now, just click the link and enjoy.
Warning: You may need ear protection to avoid being damaged by the high-decibel screeching of “Anne You-Ignorant-Slut Coulter”
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