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I also blog at Quiche Moraine, where you will find interesting restaurant reviews, political trades, and tear jerking memories. Such as:
- Strong Ideas and Exclusionary Thinking: Obama, Palin and Greek Food in Minneapolis

- Midori’s Floating World Cafe

- Dinner at Azia

- The Black Forest Inn: Anarchists 2; Scientists 1

- The Hurricane Lantern Effect

- Maybe We Should Have Elected a White President After All

- The Day the Right Wing Lost Its Last Shred of Moral Standing

- My Journey Through Race and Racism (Part I)

- Fashion at the West Bank’s Bedlam

Reptiles:

Alligator Alien in Australia

Category: Reptiles

From the BBC: Wildlife officials in Australia are investigating how an alligator native to North America was found wandering around a campsite in New South Wales. Campers at the site in Pambula managed to snare the beast in a volleyball net and held its jaws...

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Loggerhead Turtles

Category: Reptiles

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Smallest Known Snake Discovered on Barbados

Category: Reptiles

As you can see, this specimen of Leptotyphlops carlae is small enough to hang out on a US quarter. Scientists are still working out why this snake associates itself with coinage. But seriously, this snake was discovered by Blair Hedges, an evolutionary biologist at...

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