To spend July and August in Texas is to believe in an angry God.
--Garrison Keillor

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A Native American woman is at war with the US. For 30 years she’s been fighting to keep her ancestral property - and now the United Nations is on her side...

Defiance in the Land of the Free

I wonder if we truly will be held accountable.

“Researchers have discovered that selfless, altruistic service not only promotes love, peace and understanding but also produces natural killer cells that protect you from infection.”
--From “Secrets of Longevity,” by Maoshing Ni

The Charles W. Morgan historic wooden whaling ship at the Mystic Seaport Museum appears to be haunted.

I saw a news story on this the other day about a few paranormal investigators whose Gauss meters were indicating that the spirit was following them around the ship.

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Yesterday was Apollo's birthday. Here he is opening his new dead stuffed squirrel toy, which he proceeded to carry around in his mouth for an hour of unremitting cuteness after he got all of the paper off.


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ALBANY, N.Y. - A crystalline Adirondack lake once held up as an example of a “dead” lake devastated by acid rain has now become a symbol of nature’s ability to heal itself once pollutants are curbed ( Read more... )

There's a story on MSNBC (from LiveScience) about how Aussie rocks could be earliest life formsThe story describes how 3 to 4 billion-year-old stromatolites are structures that have often been thought to be formed by hydrothermic vent activity, which fits them into the prescribed theory of how life on earth began ( Read more... )