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Great moments in Democrat journalism

Posted on February 9, 2015 | 5 comments

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Via Real Science.

UPDATE:  There’s certainly merit to this argument, but Bri’s too stupid to be satan.

AND:  He’s been suspended w/o pay for six months. Which, in his case, is about $5 million. “By his actions, Brian has jeopardized the trust millions of Americans place in NBC News.” Ha, ha. Yeah, he’s single-handedly threatening the whole house-of-cards.

This is refreshing: “In a recent Pew Research Center survey, only 27 percent of respondents could correctly identify Williams from his photograph, and only 3 percent could say what he did for a living.” Thank you, Internet!

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Dumbledore and Gandalf

Posted on April 23, 2007 | Comments Off on Dumbledore and Gandalf

Mr. Boy and I have decided, having finished the Harry Potter books the same week as we saw the third installment of the Lord of the Rings movie, that Dumbledore, like Gandalf, will probably return to life more powerful than before–in the seventh book in the series due out this summer. Indeed, Mr. B. points out a similarity between Frodo and Harry. They both are marked, Harry with the forehead thunderbolt, and Frodo with the shoulder wound from the Nazgul. Both ache when the enemy is near.

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Basketball camp

Posted on July 18, 2006 | Comments Off on Basketball camp

Here at Rancho Roly Poly we are well into week one of basketball camp. The boy seems to like it, and today won an award for cooperation, which is always nice to hear. He also has a crush on one of the teenage coaches. Sort of a crush. A proprietary air when her name is mentioned. A six-year-old’s crush.

He could not believe it tonight when Frodo confronted the black riders at the Ford and drew his sword rather than ride away. "Why doesn’t he tell the horse to run?" Then the flash flood came and washed the riders away. Sort of like a Texas flash flood — totally unexpected.

Why Roly Poly? Our most significant, indigenous insect on the rancho, along with spiders, ants, walking sticks, tree roaches, yellowjackets, wasps and bees, is the humble crustacean. Although we tend to see more of them in the winter.

UPDATE  Excellant, copyrighted rendering of the roly poly, with description. Then, the link died, and so I’m replacing it with this one, which has a good photo of the creature.

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