Fieldguide is back!!!

Well folks, it’s been thinky, it’s been stuff. It’s been thinkystuff. And now FIELDGUIDE is back and raring to go.
Maybe just like the monster on Sesame Street (where two heads are better than one), two blogs are better than one. But now you have the original, the adorable, the much-missed FieldGuide has returned.
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Look out for your two-wheeled friends

I am now a bicyclist. So please when you’re driving, share the road nicely. I have been culprit to the occasional exasperated sigh as I’m stuck behind a line of traffic, not certain what the hold-up is, and then I realize it’s someone on a bike and instantaneously my frustration subsides. And I’ve generally seen [...]

Really, John? The economy’s fine?

How about living in Santa Barbara…sleeping in your car in a parking lot! When the working class of the Central Coast are feeling the squeeze, you know it’s desperate. I am so happy that corporations are getting bailed out while our fellow hardworking huddled masses are camping out like it’s the Great Depression again.
Can we [...]

Impermissable failures

Is it just me or do we have a national obsession with saving big companies from utter ruin while we let the little(r) ones go to the wall? It seems to be a continuing trend of consolidation into mega-corporations while little ones get eaten up or allowed to fold. Could it be that monolithic institutions [...]

Credentials

Alaska is near Russia, so Palin has sufficient international relations experience. (Nevermind the fact that last year – visiting Germany and Kuwait – was the first time she’s been off the continent, but not out of the country. But do Canada and Mexico really count as countries separate from the U.S., [...]

Repitition

I love that NPR continues to repeat the story rebutting Sarah Palin’s “thanks, but no thanks, Congress” line – not once, not twice, but over and over and over again. It’s the staple of their news commentary, getting even Rebublican strategists on board to attest to the fact that her version is not entirely (read: [...]

The front fell off

It’s just so literal. And straightforward.

My favorite headline EVER

Racist A–Holes to Gather in Memphis for Convention
From the Memphis Flyer: On November 8th, white supremacists from around the globe will gather in Memphis for the Euro International Conference, hosted by David Duke.

Apocalypse how?

Maybe the end of the world as we know it will happen this Wednesday. (And if it does, please let it be before my American Government class. I’d love an excuse for being late, or not at all as it might be.) And if the world does end, we’ll all be [...]

Pillok

I love that the Stata variable for whether or not 14-16 year-olds should be given birth control without their parents’ consent is called PILLOK.