HAPPY EARTH Day. Take some time to watch birds. Plant something… Take a walk and appreciate this planet. You can also take CNN’s quiz, answers to the questions below at the link, to see how savvy you are about our planet and its problems, which we humans have caused. 4. About 70% of the Earth [...]
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State Dept. Late Friday Draft Release Clears Keystone XL Pipeline Construction
“You know the news is bad when it comes out at 4 PM on Friday.” – Michael Brune, Sierra Club The Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Keystone XL pipeline’s route was released just a few weeks after about 35,000 people gathered in DC to urge the project not be built, and after several [...]
For Our Soldiers and Their Families (War Dogs Too!), a Very Merry Christmas, with a Little Brubeck and a Side of Jimmy Fallon
THIS ONE goes out to our soldiers, but also their amazing families who celebrate so often without their mom, dad, sister or brother at home. Woof! for Rebecca’s war dogs, too. The Pasta Bolognese with Pappardelle, made with spicy turkey sausage (from Whole Foods) and ground turkey instead of ground beef, with a h/t to [...]
New Light Shed On The Role Of Dinosaurs’ In The Evolution Of Bird Flight
New Light Shed On The Role Of Dinosaurs’ In The Evolution Of Bird Flight (via Planetsave) New insight into the evolution of flight has been gained thanks to research on the structures of feathers found on bird-like dinosaurs. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Yale and Calgary have found that a considerably simpler version of [...]
What’s Next for BP After Felonious Gulf Coast Catastrophe?
BLOOMBERG BUSINESS has a blaring headline and article reporting that the 103-year-old British oil company, founded as an Anglo-Persian venture in 1909, is now seen as a takeover target. A.G. Holder announced BP’s guilty plea to 14 criminal charges and the responsibility of the deaths of 11 crew members last Thursday. Today, in U.S. District [...]
Top Story: U.S. Confronts BP on Gulf Disaster in Court Documents Citing “Gross Negligence and Willful Misconduct”
The U.S. Justice Department is ramping up its rhetoric against BP PLC for the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, describing in new court papers examples of what it calls “gross negligence and willful misconduct.” The court filing is the sharpest position yet taken by the U.S. government as it seeks to [...]
New Look, Broader Lens
WELCOME to the new TM.com. It’s a new-media magazine that gives viewers a snapshot of the day. Politics is primary, then anything goes after that. This means new topics, including subjects not regularly seen here before. It’s a new look accompanied by a much broader lens on what’s covered. We’ll see what develops. TM note: [...]
Sweet Kavna Dies
KAVNA THE BELUGA whale who lived her whole life in captivity, longer than most whales of her species, which live to around 30 in the wild, died on Monday at the Vancouver Aquarium. Healthy all of her long 46 long years, she just recently fell ill, which they believe was from cancer. “It’s hard for [...]
Ann Romney Fashion – Style Moment and My Two Cents in the New York Times
EACH CANDIDATE’S wife has a certain style. Mrs. Obama’s style has caused dresses she’s worn to sell out. Mrs. Romney’s fashion sense was most recently noticed when she wore the Reed Audubon silk shirt on CBS “This Morning.” I wrote about it and recently talked to Ruth La Ferma from the New York Times on [...]
Ann Romney’s Style
IT’S FABULOUS and she can afford it. When I saw it on CBS “This Morning,” I knew it would catch attention. “The Reed Audubon Silk Shirt,” first identified by Styleite, is $990 and appears in the 2012 Spring/Summer collection, according to an ABC News report. Michelle Obama made waves with her J. Crew styling, but [...]
Midday Moment of Zen
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. My love of birds is known around here. The video above was posted on Facebook. It’s quite extraordinary. A flock of birds doing what a flock of birds is supposed to do, while an onlooking human catches it for the rest of us. On another note, it’s an [...]
Al Gore Chides Obama to Use Bully Pulpit on Climate Change
Poor Al. He wants so badly to help Pres. Barack Obama find his inner presidential activist on behalf of important international policy. But while he scolds him, Mr. Gore also neuters his effectiveness by giving Pres. Obama power over him and the message he’s desperate to drill home. The Joplin tornado proved how badly a [...]
Sunday Politics and Japan’s Nuclear Catastrophe
[...] Tokyo Electric Power Co., owner of the two heavily damaged complexes, took the unprecedented step of pumping seawater mixed with boric acid into the core of another reactor, Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 1 reactor, to tame ultra-high temperatures from fuel rods that had been partially exposed. In keeping with the natural as well as mechanical [...]
Saying Good-bye to Beauties
The pond still flows, but our friends are gone. Our fish have been re-gifted to Nevada Water Gardens where quite a few of them began their lives. When Jean and Larry told my husband they’d take our fish it took a huge burden off of us. Not unlike when we found our peacocks a new [...]
I Love Birds Edition
Best. Bird. Video. Ever. As regular readers and listeners know, my husband and I are bird lovers. We had peacocks, including chicks, until just recently, which included some hair raising experiences with them, Missy (the peahen), Blue and their chick, now full grown peacock, Jack. (His albino sister only lived for a few months.) We [...]
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