Lea and I messed up Aaron’s eighth birthday. He wanted a red-eared slider, which we generally (and, as it turned out, ignorantly) agreed to. When I started researching how to properly care for one, it became an impractical consideration in a hurry. Red-eared sliders need truly massive amounts of space. Then, well, the issue languished … Read more
I haven’t had much to say about sequestration, but I encountered something extraordinary in its gall last night. Writing in The Washington Times, Stephen Dinan tells of recent correspondence directing one inquiring official to make the pain of sequestration, not potential mitigation, a top priority: In the internal email, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service … Read more
…it’s that I feel so little assurance that they learn anything after doing dumb things that really alarms me. With our ever-decreasing attention spans, I fear that even momentary reflection in that vein is too much to expect.