Nature abhors a vacuum . These new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace th...

AND THEY SAY *WOMEN* TALK A LOT... I love the hand gestures.

Traveling: I'm traveling again, this time on business, so I can't promise to be around much for a bit.

POLITICS: APPARENTLY IT REALLY *IS* A BLOOD SPORT... Yikes: In case you can't read the text in the screen snap, it says " Lawmaker ...

Bwhahaahaha! I'm sorry, I should come up with something more significant to say about hahahahahaha : Moments before a conference call wi...

DON'T YOU JUST HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS? Some days it seems as though nothing goes right : An eagle ray weighing as much as 300 pounds ...

Against the Law: One of the points of unity among you in our recent debate about Dr. Cronon was the importance of the concept of "the r...

Dissidents and Migration Mark mentioned migration in a comment thread below about one of the possible responses to a dissatisfaction with go...

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Ahead of Our Time My husband maintains that, once again, we're on the cutting edge culturally. The WSJ ran a piece today on " The ...

Fukushima Update The news coverage has mostly moved on to Libya and other stories, but the Fukushima troubles are hardly over. Good informa...

Wisconsin's Open Records Laws Does the law matter? I think it does. And because I think the law matters, I must take exception to a few...

Security in Papers: Let's say an FBI agent started a blog called "The G-Man as Citizen." On this blog he investigated liberal...

Economy: For years and years, I've heard arguments that higher gas prices would make Americans morally better people. It would break ou...

Variations: 'Going down to Georgia, to knock down my last game... I had not been in Washington/ many more weeks than three...' The ...

Warning: I'm under the weather a bit, and the doc gave me some antibiotics. The warnings include this: Although most antibiotics probab...

Aptly named " Badass of the week " (and probably year, decade and century at this point...) When asked by Southeast Asia Bureau re...

Making a Star: The Killer talks about how it all got started, and he talks about it from his age. Picking cotton and corn, and hoping all th...

Pegleg: Hat tip to DL Sly: Actually, the horse's name is Midnight. What most people don't realize about horses is that their legs a...

Ejjication Weren't we just talking about education? I find that I can't understand how our President uses some very simple words. ...