4+ hour, 56+ min ago  (228+ words) It was a rough morning on Botany Pond. Two undocumented drakes invaded this morning, and I must have spent 45 minutes chasing them around with my squirt gun. They would leave (along with Armon, who always returns), but then come back…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago  (305+ words) As always, an Aussie who wishes to remain anonymous sent me this link, and noted that New Zealand isn't the only country in the Antipodes that tries to make science (again "Western science) coequal with indigenous knowledge." Clicking on the…...

6+ hour, 56+ min ago  (1365+ words) I recommend that you read this article: the message may sound old, but Teixeira expresses it in detail and writes extremely clearly." The sub-message for Democrats is this: "Don't let the "progressives' take over the party!" If you don't know…...

22+ hour, 53+ min ago  (1844+ words) Welcome to a hump day (" " in Tamil): Wednesday, April 8, 2026, and National Empanada Day. Here's one I bought on the street in Santiago, Chile in 2019, right before my first trip to the Antarctic: It's also Dog Farting Awareness Day (?), National Dog…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (732+ words) Please allow me to show you pictures of my children, which this year comprise a pair of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) and a pair of wood ducks (Aix sponsa). The latter don't seem to be breeding here as they're on the…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (390+ words) Why Evolution Is True This video showed up as a "suggestion" when I was watching You Tube (no, I'm not a Nazi), and I was curious to see what the last German propaganda newsreel of WWII showed. Among other things,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (92+ words) Today's Jesus and Mo strip, called "create, came with this caption: In which the boys return to the devilishly tricky P of E. I assume the artist means "problem of evil, which of course clever theologians have found a way to…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (600+ words) Paul Mc Cartney was'and I use the past tense'one of the two greatest songwriters of the era that comprised the apogee of pop music. (The other was John Lennon; I'm excluding Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell as were folkier)." Sadly,…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (746+ words) Nevertheless, Trump's repeated assertions that there has already been regime change implies further that this was a goal." But his statement is mendacious, for he simply means that by assassinating the Ayatollah and his son, there's new leadership in Iran....

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (211+ words) And from Keira Mc Kenzie in Perth, Australia, we have three shots of the willie wagtail (Rhipidura leucophrys): The first is taken at a neighbour's place. She feeds him so he comes every morning: The other two are taken at…...