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j7uy5 | March 17, 2012
When the bees start buzzing around, it is past time to get started with the garden. The photo above shows a bee that is finding something of interest on a peach tree.
Tomato seedlings are doing well. Notice that two of them are blooming already. They are growing in peat pots coconut coir pots. We use an Ikea serving tray to take them outdoors in the daytime, to harden off. It is still too early to put them in the ground, but we have raised beds ready for them. Today the high temp around here is supposed to get to 81F, but there are still freezing temps anticipated at night in the…
gregladen | March 16, 2012So, what are you doing on Sunday morning?
We've had a slight change in plans, and my interview with Maggie Koerth Baker will be on April 1st. No fooling. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Atheist Talk Radio will have a conversation woth Jen McCreigh, Stephanie Zvan, Brianne Bilyeu, and Moi. In other words, four Free Thought Bloggers all at once on one radio show talking about .... well, we have a plan, but you can email and call in and tell us that we've got it all wrong, if you like.
gregladen | March 16, 2012Bill McKibben shares a message with the 350 community about what we've done so far, and the plan for the months ahead. Our next big fight: taking on the billions in subsidies that the fossil fuel industry makes.
gregladen | March 15, 2012Last weekend, Desiree Schell and I taped a segment of "Everything You Know Is (Sort of) Wrong" (apologies)for Skeptically Speaking, a radio talk show and podcast that Desiree hosts. The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. One of the misconceptions that came up is the idea that human ancestors went through an evolutionary stage called "scavenging" during which time we were not capable hunters, but we were good enough to scavenge, so we did that for a while until we…
denialism | March 15, 2012At Alternet there is a great article by Kristin Rawls on homeschooling and educational neglect. I think it makes an excellent argument that homeschooling needs either tighter regulation and oversight, or needs to be outright outlawed:
In recent weeks, homeschooling has received nationwide attention because of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's homeschooling family. Though Santorum paints a rosy picture of homeschooling in the United States, and calls attention to the "responsibility" all parents have to take their children's education into their own hands, he fails to…
gregladen | March 14, 2012A UFO (Underground Freaky Object) has been located in Austria by a farmer searching for his lost cat.
"I managed to get a big magnet which I dangled down there and it clearly fastened onto something at the bottom -- so there is something large and metallic about down there," he said. "It also sounds as if there is a hollow space around about whatever the metal object is. It sounds as if there is a room underneath."
He even called a local plumber, who lowered a camera down the pit on a rope -- but the camera failed just as it reached the object. Knoglinger said that the interference may have…
gregladen | March 13, 2012DId you ever wonder if people "back then" really sounded like Rudolph Valentino or if there was just something wrong with all the recording equipment?
Turns out .....
Hat Tip C.A.
gregladen | March 13, 2012
Obviously, since the hardware can be stolen, this would work better if the gear was surgically implanted in the homeless people who could then constitute a new race of cyborg servants who would not have to be paid much.
sastyk | March 13, 2012
(Mac, doing the guard thing)
I don't live in New York City, so I don't have to go quite through what these folks did to adopt a cat. If one of my neighbors hasn't rescued a cat some idiot dropped off (because that's what you do with cats you can't take care of, right, throw them out of your car in the country where they will totally be fine ;-P), we have a long-standing and deeply friendly relationship with someone who does cat rescue, and she is happy to pass cats on to us for adoption. Still, I did come into contact with the Stalinist dog rescue folk shortly before we BOUGHT Mac:
"I'm so…
gregladen | March 12, 2012I'm not recommending this. In fact, I may recommend against it. But I thought you should know:
gregladen | March 12, 2012I usually write about race and racism here, but about humanist and atheist stuff at The X Blog. So, I thought I'd point you to this: White Atheism and the Billboard Problem
gregladen | March 9, 2012".... The car stopped on a dime. Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococco's Pocket...." and other great moments.
If you don't know Firesign Theater, then a) your soul is empty and b) you won't know who Peter Bergman is/was.
Here's a post by a friend of his.
And now, go get and ingest some hallucinatory substances and listen, in no particular order, to the following: How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're and This Side and Don't Crush That Dwarf Hand Me the Pliers and Everything You Know Is Wrong and Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him and Firesign Theatre's Box of…