The secret of life is to have more beginnings than endings.
--David Weinbaum

From The Columbia Basin Herald:MOSES LAKE -- The fish being tagged this week at the Columbia Basin Fish Hatchery are still pretty young, but hopes are high that they represent new longevity for their species ( Read more... )

I read some of the transcripts of the 911 tapes from the World Trade Center in the Times. People are still dying from the toxic fumes they breathed that day.

Let Moussaoui rot in prison.

Death is too good for him.

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The untrained mind is like a drunken monkey stung by a bee.
--Buddhist proverb

I think my untrained mind is more like a rhinoceros on acid. Or ecstasy on a good day.

Sunday, March 26, 2006
U.N. report blames humans for historic wave of extinctions

Poughkeepsie JournalPeople are responsible for the worst spate of extinction since the dinosaur era and must make unprecedented efforts to reach a goal of slowing losses by 2010, a new United Nations report warns ( Read more... )

"The nature of the grievances is less important than your desire to free yourself from them."
--from "The Daily Om"

This showed up in my mail box today, exactly when I needed to be reminded of it.

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I think they made up a new condition status for the guy that Cheney shot: he's described as "very stable," as opposed to just "stable" which might imply that he was ever in any real danger ( Read more... )

I've just been reading about "the emerging group of individuals who identify themselves as asexual ( Read more... )