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Excellent Tail of TULLY monster, mazon creek RARE Animal: Tullimonstrum gregarium

Locality:  Mazon Creek
Location:  Illinois
Age:  Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)

The Tully Monster is only found at the Mazon Creek locality.  It is a bit of a mystery what it is but personally I believe it to be a squid relative.  It has an eye bar and an odd claw.  ( Read more... )

We have been down to a rational number of cats for a while now and I have been yearning for a kitten. Our youngest cat is a little over 6 years old. He moved in with us 5 years ago this month. Ross had told me I could get a pair of kittens and I was going to wait until spring. THEN I found out that a friend had a litter of kittens. I was going to ( Read more... )

Gay Marriage Can't Hurt My Straight Marriage -- pass it on

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage, and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

Merlin is a good boy. He seems to be pretty much house trained but has not been taught basics like "sit". We think that he may not even be a year old because his feet still seem to be too big for his body. He is good with adults. We had plans to go to a Halloween party down in North Hollywood last night. We did not expect to have a new dog and we ( Read more... )

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I am posting this in multiple places so if you get this more than once I’m sorry.

Thursday, May 15 2008 the California Supreme Court did a real good thing and overturned the ban on gay marriage. This law passed on March 7th 2000 with 61.4% of the vote. This was Proposition 22. Now they are trying again with Proposition 8. Another try at a ( Read more... )

I work at home so I have time to wander the net to read about all four candidates. I don't look at one site, I look at several. I have read part of the congressional record, Alaskan newspapers from when Palin was mayor. Web sites from the Huffington Post to nationalreview.com and I check facts on Snopes. I read what people post in their journals ( Read more... )

Although I'd call myself a social moderate this test was pretty much right on target.

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...and you went to a new dentist, a tiny Russian woman with a lovely accent. (Ve haff vays of making you talk ( Read more... )