Hey Everyone, who still reads this here - I've moved over to http://shagamblog.blogspot.com/ - it seemed a bit more professional than telling people about my LJ, and I'll just be posting there from now on.

I'll see you there;
That Is All For Now,
M.

“Big Alligator” by Chief Jim Billie

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Aside from this being the greatest song EVER about a Seminole chief having his childhood dog being eaten by an alligator (or as I like to call them, chompopotamuses), it's the greatest song that features nightstalking of alligators. Needless to say this video is mandatory watching, and not only because it's ( Read more... )

The good news here is that liberal democratic leaders actually care enough about legitimacy that they fear clear outrages will cause people, the voters, to do something about it. If they didn’t, scarring tortures would still be common. So when we watch them, they get sneaky. Could things get worse? Sure. Locke believed that history was committed to ( Read more... )

"The fish is the pinnacle in dangerous and effective invasive species. Officials in the U.S. had to fight an invasion of the fish with the equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Snipers were placed around invaded bodies of water with shoot on sight orders. Whole lakes were poisoned, wiping out hundreds of other fish in the process, to stop the snakefish ( Read more... )

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:8B1rAWO2zbUJ:www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/complit/conferences/ ( Read more... )

Just out of "curiousity", what the hell is it with Britishers and building bridges - both Zulu and The Man Who Would Be King make bridge-building significant plot points - and of course, there's The Bridge On The River Kwai (with classic Alec Guiness action) and A Bridge Too Far and...that bridge...in London...goddamn...what's it called? The Bridge ( Read more... )

Today was a bit melancholy - not my own life, per se; I've been helping an elderly gentleman - and the dude is total gentleman, with vest and tie and books published on Amadeo Avogadro and turning points in World War One - with his new computer. The basics, setting up internet and his new book - also on WWI - and a chess program for him. It's ( Read more... )

"One might speculate that perhaps Stenonychosaurus or her progeny did build radio telescopes, but their civilization was destroyed by some internal or external catastrophe. Perhaps the lifetime of their civilization was so short compared with the resolution of the geological record (typically millions of years) that it is simply lost without a ( Read more... )

"Ms. Yingling said the training Scientologists can deduct is not the same as religious education. "The use of the word 'training' in Scientology is not analogous to education," she said. "It's just another way of advancing spiritually in Scientology ( Read more... )

"The name Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt was an inevitable afterthought. When Steven Seagal finished creating a drink that holds untold natural power, there was only one equivalent in nature-The Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt. Both mysterious and powerful, it's a symbol of the untold energy the earth has to offer-Such is Steven Seagal's Lightning ( Read more... )