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Giraffe helps camels, zebras escape from circus

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Heee! It’s always the giraffe that’s the ring-leader, isn’t it?

Yahoo! News

Amsterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a traveling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage.

General Clark questions McCain’s experience

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I’m so glad to hear someone with his kind of background and know-how finally point out that McCain’s international experience isn’t quite what he claims it to be.

Jon Soltz: Right On, General Clark. Do Not Back Down. - Politics on The Huffington Post

Because in the matters of national security

Circle of Peace

Monday, June 30th, 2008

by Gary Lee Price

Do the wave

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Jess snuggles with the otter

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Baroo?

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Grilled cheese

Friday, June 27th, 2008

While in Sparta, we decided we wanted a bit of something to munch on, but it didn’t look like much was open. We see a grill right by the lovely theater and it looks like it might be open. We go …

The Itch

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Fascinating article on itches and the need to scratch. I heard an interview with the author on NPR last night.Annals of Medicine: The Itch: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

“Scratching is one of the sweetest gratifications of nature, and as ready at hand as any,” Montaigne

Rove, critics try to pin ‘arrogant’ label on Obama

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

CNN.com

“Arrogance in this campaign will be perhaps more loaded than it would be in other campaigns,” he said. “They’re trying to say … ‘He’s not one of you.’ “

I guess I’m not the only one who hears the word “uppity” when people like Rove say that Obama is arrogant.

Diner

Thursday, June 26th, 2008