black and white

Think of the races as rival cheerleading squads, only most of us will need bigger uniforms

Here are my late-breaking predictions for the Apple “Let’s Rock” event tomorrow (September 9). I did not come up with any of the original ideas for these. They are merely a rehashing of what is already circulating around the Internet leading up to the event.

Pete Kotz on the conservative tendency to immediately excoriate anyone who tries to form consensus outside of dogma:

“In my house! In my bedroom! Where my wife sleeps, where my children come to play with their toys. My home.”

~ Michael Corleone in Godfather Part II

This is turning out to be the summer that never was. I blinked my eyes and now it is July 12. My recreational activities (drinking at bars doesn’t count) have been minimal. I did, however, get a round of golf in last weekend which was nice.

america_in_08 posted a photo:

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Thursday, July 3, 2008

GoldnI points to the Economist:

One of my Nature Conservancy scientist friends was visiting last Saturday with a group of folks sitting on the deck. As we were talking, the birds were noisily carrying on in the fresh green canopy and one sound stood out a bit...A joyous squeaking call from an invisible source.

"That's a Black and White Warbler," said my friend in response to the sound. "We hear them a lot but don't see them