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Recent Posts
Resistance in Tibet?
The Tibetan Youth Congress has been described as an organization bent on terror wherein Young Tibetans ‘will resist China with blood’. ...
“I feel very fortunate to have it eat my flowers…”
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Fluorescent Pink Katydid "Every year in Pennsylvania mountains a few people are fortunate enough to see an amazing thing, a normally green katydid that is brilliant pink, eyes, antennae, legs, everything. ...
“I don’t mind you having a black character, but please don’t show them in school together.”
Charles Schulz: "I finally sighed and said, 'Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?'" We don't usually think of Peanuts as given to political statements but this great post at Edge of...
Back-handed by Anubis
Astaria Films presents: Something Lost ... the Love of Your Life ... ...
Knight Challenge Round 2: Journalism Doctor Telepresence
My Journalism Doctor Telepresence Reporting Experiment made it into Round 2 of the $5 million Knight News Challenge. I just uploaded the Round 2 materials about an hour ago. I noticed in the first round they had about 2,300 applicants. The deadline f...
That’s just a scroll in his hand!
The source of a recently-broken curse, the tallest statue to adorn the top of any building surmounts the tallest masonry building in the world. A bit of perspective. Too much perspective? [previously]...
