When I was a kid, one summer, they cut the roadway along the side of a limestone hill. Suddenly, there were all these bullet-shaped things in the dirt. That was how I learned about fossils.
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When I was a kid, one summer, they cut the roadway along the side of a limestone hill. Suddenly, there were all these bullet-shaped things in the dirt. That was how I learned about fossils.
This is a trick that the US defense contractors have used for decades: spread the risk and the reward across a larger pool, and you pick up an army of free lobbyists that are looking out for their self-interest.
I took this yesterday, driving home from Pittsburgh. January 12; that’s pretty much “the dead of winter” around here.
Imagine being told “there are some ballistic missiles coming your way in 5hr, but for political reasons we need you to hunker down in a hole and grip your ankles and hope that they hit where they are supposed to. OK?”
Qasem Soleimani had a “bad guy” nickname; he was “The Shadow Commander.”
This is just breaking, so nobody really knows what’s going on, but:
I screwed up one of my pieces of rosewood, so I can’t present all three of the chisels as finished work. Unfortunately; but that’s just how things work out, sometimes.
I wish you could smell this wood. It’s sugar maple; my neighbor had a tree blow down and was out chainsawing it up. [Read more…]
The US’ way of waging war is to build outposts in semi-safe locations, then venture forth to battle using its tremendous mobility advantage.
It’s impossible to say for sure, but Trump appears to be suffering from late stage dementia. Of course, that won’t matter to anyone in Washington; if they’re willing to look the other way while he commits ridiculous crimes, they certainly won’t even deign to notice his brain melting.