結束 Myrmecos Alex Wild just brought to my attention a rather personal attack from a pair of republican senators (科伯恩, R-俄克拉荷馬。, 和約翰·麥凱恩, R-亞利桑那州). 我再次開始發表評論, 但如何接近這家點擊, 我覺得一個較長的長篇大論的抨擊接近…
似乎, my job is agiant waste of money. Funding that the California Academy of Sciences (my employer) has received, is coming under direct attack. 行, 我的 position has nothing to do with Antweb and I am not supported by public funds – but some of my colleagues are. Colleagues that have the exact same job title as my own, work a few doors down, and happen to work on different projects funded from different sources. What this boils down to is not only a republican war on science (go find that book), but a republican war on intellectualism. Everyone whose scaly little hand has crafted this report is not only willfully ignorant but is being outright dishonest. What is their unstated major premise here? The logical fallacy runs somewhere along the line of…
一) Democrats are wasting money because we are not in power.
乙) By pointing out where this money is being “wasted” we will help save it and in turn ingratiate ourselves to the voters.
乙) Supporting science (e.g. wasteful spending) is the cause of our economic problems.
在東部拉森縣, 在加州與內華達州邊界的廣大高杜松小山, 也有牛群 “野” 馬匹, 羊和牛. 意料之中的事, 唯一的開花植物周圍是苦薄荷 (歐夏至草). 儘管非原生植物和 (半)巨型動物, 昆蟲仍然在家裡. 作為唯一的蜜源, the small clumps of invasives were packed with thirsty Lycaenidae. In all I netted 6 different species and got some decent shots of 3. It seems like I take a lot of butterfly photos for a moth collector…but it’s hard to pass up such a charismatic group.
But thinking of those horses (ah OK, “mustangs”) has given me a great idea. 是, horses were once part of the prehistoric American fauna up until about 12,000 years ago. While the horse family may have evolved on the American plains, they have been long absent. Reintroduction of horses by the Spaniards planted the seeds that would become a staple of American culture. That is why today millions of dollars and tens of thousands of feral horses run wild in CA, NV and Utah. Even less popular are the somewhat clandestine annual culls that must be strictly enforced to keep these large herds healthy. My solution: reintroduce lions. America was once home to the North American lion (Panthera leo atrox), which stood a whopping 25% larger than the African lion and was the largest cat to have ever lived. These must have feasted on horse-tacos and in turn kept the populations stable. And since our feral horses are of Arabian dissent, we may as well introduce the extremely endangered Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica), that will be well suited to feast on its Persian brethren. If we are conserving “野” 馬匹, we might as well do it right (更多, I’d be much more interested in seeing horses if I could see lions too).
我也不太清楚，如果我對這個主題我賣. 我一直在四處購物的新面貌, 而我給 “20 10” 一試. 讓我知道你的意見 – 你是否認為這是比以前更好的佈局 “濛濛”, 或者，如果有你喜歡的另一個設計. 要格外關鍵 (especially since I had zero to do with these pre-fab designs).
良好 – didn’t like the new theme all that much, went back to the tried and true misty. I can always hope for a future one that fits this page a bit better though.
Thanks for the input (especially for some received off-blog).
我回來路上有成千上萬的標本, 有點疲倦和準備有點坐不住. 這是一場奇妙之旅 – 但我有很多很多做處理. 雖然我打的追趕, 享受這個剪輯. 據我所知, 有沒有直接的關係. But the Grinter pool is a small one and it seems like he should be somewhere on my tree. All I can say is that I hope after I am gone there are ghosts of my creepy employees haunting my home, breathing heavily behind visitors (真? that’s the latest ghost trick?). I also fully expect a documentary with a guy trying真hard to sound creepy – it should be in my last will and testament.
Over the next week and a half I’ll be driving up to Washington state for the annual鱗翅目’ 學會會議. 它坐落在旅遊陷阱鎮的萊文沃思, 這是一個 “巴伐利亞主題” 明信片和木屐店西洋鏡. 雖然我從來沒有完全理解主題城鎮的吸引力, it is something Americans just love. 赫克, I lived in Solvang for two years (下面), so Leavenworth will be a nostalgic remembrance.
Now of course I’ll be camping and collecting along the way, so my posting will dip below the already slow norm. I’ll try to post some updates form the road, especially when incredible things happen*. Stay tuned, and enjoy the other spectacular bloggers from my blogroll.
* Which they undoubtedly will. 當然, I know I promised this from my last road trip to Arizona and have yet to deliver. I’m working on it!
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