Back again.. A little brown bird just peeked into both of the cottage-like bird houses that we have set up on our side porch. I hope he liked what he saw and takes up residence. My daughter, Diane, has a Christmas wreath on her porch that she can't take down because a fat robin has built a nest on top of it and has deposited several blue eggs therein. Mama robin sits on the eggs for hours each day.
News Bites that I think are interesting:
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The Dow-Jones average is almost to the 17,000 level... up almost 1,000 since last December. What does that say about the economy?
Pot
Marijuana vending machines are popping up in Colorado.
Bombs away!
Today is the 50th anniversary of Dr. Strangelove, a marvelous "take" on a crazy world.
Global Warming Denial?
Jamestown Island, site of America's first permanent European settlement is getting smaller every year because of rising water.
Book Lover
The New Yorker magazine mentions the author of a book called "The Shelf", in which she outlines her experiences in reading all of the books on the library shelf: lea through lez, or a similar spread. More on this later.
Here We Go Again!
Headline: "Four shot on Seattle Campus by 26 year old"
Headline: "24 Year-Old killed Mounties"
(A Canadian shooting? Huh? Well.. the killing was in a town "east of Maine." Are our homicidal proclivities rubbing off on our Canadian neighbors?)
A Subtlety
A Subtlety is a massive sphinx-like figure sculpted entirely in white sugar by Kara Walker. Instead of an Egyptian head, it has an African head to indicate that the perennial gatherers of sugar cane were Africans. (Commissioned by Domino Sugar.) Its a beautiful work by a person who does amazing representations of African figures. A Google search will reveal a lot of images of Kara's work.
Bye for now... got to go listen to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
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