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- I’m not sure I care for Facebook crawling all over my other pages I visit now. I want things in the boxes I put them in.
- Is this Noah’s Ark? It’s beginning to look like an intriguing possibility. I’ll have to think about that.
- It wasn’t bad, but I never quite got the sense of wonder and horror I think they were going for with Coraline. Whether that is a shortcoming of the film or of me, I couldn’t say. I do think it’s creepy enough to make it a poor choice for any viewers under 10 or so.
- We have spent $35 million, including $20 million in state and federal funds, saving the California condor. There were 22 when we started in 1987; now there are 349. So that money has “saved or created” (heh) 327 birds, at a cost of more than $107,000 each. Is it worth it? I don’t know, but that’s damned sure enough money to ask the question.
- We’re finally getting an oval IndyCar race for the fifth event of the season, and I’m hyper-paranoid about the weather. Right now it’s supposed to be partly cloudy on Saturday in Kansas City, but rain is forecast in front of it and behind it. I hope the timing holds.
- Oil slick! What do we do? Set that sumbitch on fire! Love it! Take lots of photos!
- The soulless, witless “supervisors” of Santa Clara County, California have banned Happy Meal toys. (Because kids get the toys with the unhealthy food, and the promise of the toy promotes childhood obesity. Follow?)
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On the condor scene, one nice side effect of saving the condors is that some of the stuff that was killing them off isn’t exactly great for humans either. Like lead in the air and DDT.
Ed, good to “see” you, sir.
I’m awfully conflicted about DDT, still believing it the greatest single weapon we have against malaria in the tropics, and lamenting its loss. Nevertheless, your point is well taken, and I shall consider it.
Bo, good point about DDT. I think a lot of people would take the opportunity to live without malaria even if there are some rough side effects.