Reflections on snow and bird feeder
I keep bird feeders. Birds are sharp things to watch, little dinosaurs as it were. More below.
View ArticleThe Left Wing: Northern Cardinal
With all the Wright and Gas Tax diaries out there, I wanted to throw something a little different into the mix. If you like it, tell me; if you don't, tell me that, too. My dad got me interested...
View Articlecardinal mahony is under investigation, finally
The Faux Noiz station here in LA just announced that the dark prince is under investigation. I did see him in my old neighborhood in Los Angeles at Vons, a grocery store, about five years ago. I...
View ArticlePileated Woodpeckers & Sacred Lands
Pileated Woodpeckers, cardinals, baby peafowl ... http://www.flickr.com/... Nature always delivers. I never have to worry about finding beauty because Nature's supply of beauty is infinite and...
View ArticleKennedy fights for healthcare from the grave. (Video added)
During the final phase of Ted Kennedy's funeral Cardinal Theodore McCarrick read a letter that Ted Kennedy had President Obama hand deliver to Pope Benedict XVI when Obama visited him in Italy on July...
View ArticleSunday Train: Rescuing the Cardinal from Demise
Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence When looking at the famously mis-titled "Vision for High Speed Rail in America" map trotted out last year, showing those of state-planned High...
View ArticleTarcisio Bertone’s Cardinal Sin
"Many psychologists, many psychiatrists have demonstrated that there is no relationship between celibacy and pedophilia but many others have demonstrated, I was told recently, that there is a...
View ArticleBlizzardis Interuptus on Cape Cod (again) - watching the birds cope
I have a stack of drafts here ... about political issues - MA Senate - Guns, women's issues, but weather keeps interfering. Another windy stormy weekend. Lost power for a short time again so I amused...
View ArticleThe ideology that sacrifices humanity to satisfy the rich
A few weeks ago Pope Francis challenged unfettered capitalism. He called it a "new tyranny." The Pope is justifiably concerned with income and wealth inequality and the effects on the poor and...
View ArticleSunday Train: On Amtrak, I've got some good news, and some bad news.
This last week, there was the surprising start to a headline in the Washington Post that began, "GOP House and White House agree on something" ... and that something was: Amtrak funding (and pets on a...
View ArticleSenior cardinal says Ireland gay marriage vote worse than paganism
Yer all pagans! Cardinal Raymond Burke, best known for getting demoted from his high-post at the Vatican and being put into a "largely ceremonial" role as cardinal patron of the Knights and Dames of...
View ArticleSunday Train: An Ohio Universities Rail System, Part 1 (Southern &...
Well, the 2016 High Speed Rail unlock has been postponed to 2018 or 2020.When transportation policy at the Federal level is grabbed with both hands by the Oil and Gas death lobby, we have to turn to...
View ArticleEPA's Pruitt hid dinner with accused serial child-molesting priest to talk...
The New York Times has the classic story of corrupt EPA chief Scott Pruitt meeting with a climate change-denying Catholic cardinal. Sadly, this is nothing surprising, coming from an administration that...
View ArticleConservative vaccine skeptic Cardinal Burke on ventilator after contracting...
Outspoken conservative Cardinal Raymond L. Burke is reportedly on a ventilator after contracting COVID-19 sometime last week. The Washington Post reports that Burke announced that he had tested...
View ArticleDaily Bucket Friday Sequence: Abnormal Cardinal Feeding Young
This Friday sequence features a Cardinal with an amazing facial abnormality in the process of feeding it’s young. These photos were shot through the double pane window in my front door so they are not...
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