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What do beans, bones, bucks, bullets, case notes, clams, coconuts, and fish have in common? Money, baby.
posted 4:10 PM by Miriam

As of yesterday, Isaiah knows precisely which one of those fluorescent orange magnetic objects on our fridge is called "C". Someday soon he'll appreciate this.
posted 12:58 PM by Miriam

"Today's hearings on [global warming] were the first since the breakup of the Bonn meetings, and a sense of frustration over the administration not offering an alternative was evident even among Republicans who have been supportive of the White House position. Their comments may have reflected recent opinion polls showing that increasing numbers of Americans see the problem as serious."

Stupid (or is it evil?) decision by stupid decision, President Shrub is digging his own grave.
posted 12:50 PM by Miriam

Gao Zhan's giving the bastards the finger. You go, girl. Write about it. We'll read it. (Did we really give these guys the Olympics?)
posted 10:33 AM by Miriam

Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues pretty much spell out the work I need to do for the rest of my life.
posted 1:44 PM by Miriam

I knew of them, even have one of their CDs, but for some reason De Dannan never really made it onto my radar screen with the likes of, say, Dervish. Until now. This album just made my wish list. And efolkmusic.com will definitely be getting my business. I had some trouble downloading their MP3s and got fabulous support practically in real time. They just celebrated their 2-year-anniversary. It's not hard to figure out why. They give a little away, they sell a little more for cheap, and yet a little more at reasonable prices -- and they know how to treat their customers.
posted 11:13 AM by Miriam

At this very moment, an 80-year-old Vermonter is hiking the Long Trail -- all 270 miles of it -- for the seventh time. Balls out. Another aspiration to add to my list. So many aspirations, so little time.
posted 11:25 AM by Miriam

Heard a locally-produced nature commentary this morning (one of the benefits of rural public radio) in which I learned that seemingly peaceful rana catesbeiana eats anything that moves and will fit in its mouth -- including cliff swallows, swamp sparrows, and hummingbirds. It also has no qualms about eating others of its kind. A female in particular must be cautious about selecting a mate that does not outweigh her, lest she become his dinner rather than his dinner guest. Apparently females pre-judge the size of suitors by the resonance of their calls. Wow.
posted 11:12 AM by Miriam

"The world in the mid-90s didn't decide that retrieving information is just the coolest thing ever and we have to wire the entire globe so everyone can do it. It took the other form of information: the joke."
posted 10:39 AM by Miriam

Today, I learned from the annoying but occasionally useful Writer's Almanac, is Amelia Earhart's birthday.

COURAGE

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From little things;

Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights, where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the restless day,
And count it fair.
                                           --Amelia Earhart

People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But 'til you get there yourself, you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Others just come to harm
Oh Amelia, it was just a false alarm.
                                           --Joni Mitchell

posted 9:45 AM by Miriam

Bo and Luke ride again, inside the Beltway no less [thanks, Art]. If you find yourself either reminiscing or so depressed you can't lift your head off the table, try Gary's Dukes of Hazzard Page on for size.
posted 2:37 PM by Miriam

On a single autumn night several years ago, radar on Cape Cod indicated that 12 million songbirds passed overhead.
posted 12:22 PM by Miriam

"Global consciousness? It's true. It is exactly what we have been after. Our thesis is that the Internet is the first point in human history in the creation of consciousness at a massive and biologically meaningful scale….The reason this is so exciting is that it is totally grass-roots, bottom-up emergent behavior. The World Wide Web increases the connectivity between individual birders into a kind of global consciousness. It cares in its altruistic loving soul for the interest of the birds.”
posted 12:20 PM by Miriam

"You can't expect society to keep rewarding wanton ovulation this way." Amen. Humans are not built for litters.
posted 9:27 AM by Miriam