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Dec.29.2011
When I created a poster for NOAA in 2007 commemorating the launch of the Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery program, there were 1200 monk seals remaining. Today there are 900. And now this: two monk seals have been killed on Molokai and a third found dead, and activist Walter Ritte, a long-time...
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Oct.01.2011
Here's why I listen to the debates...
Mitt Romney wants to restore foreign policy based on American interests (hmmm...didn't we support a lot of tyrants based on our own interests...and are now paying the price?) and thinks corporations are people (who have the right to bear arms!).
Despite...
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Jul.21.2011
I like listening to both sides of the political spectrum. I'll even pop an antacid, swallow my gastric reflux, and stomach Ann Coulter because the lady sometimes makes a reasonable, albeit shrill, argument for conservative policy (until the voices in her head take over and she succumbs to her...
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Jul.19.2011
Remember pregnant Midge? She and her entire Happy Family line were pulled from Walmart store shelves in 2002 in response to customer complaints. Many found her offensive, believing she sexualized young girls and glorified motherhood over career. Others felt she promoted teen pregnancy and single...
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May.03.2011
CNN correspondent Ali Velshi got jostled by the fist-pumping, flag-waving crowd at Ground Zero and there I was, barely able to muster a "what does it mean?" à la Double Rainbow Guy. What good is astonishment without celebration? What good is a double rainbow without the interpretation...
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Mar.29.2011
"The course of true love never did run smooth." ~William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
A recently published study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed what we, and legions of poets, playwrights and troubadours have known all along—that...
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Dec.16.2010
Here's a solution to those intrusive full body scanners proposed by the TSA. Stop by your friendly airport Burger King and buy pancakes to hide your junk. Sorry folks, the french toast won't work--it's gotta be pancakes.
According to the Journal of Transportation Security,
"It is very...
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Nov.30.2010
Charles is less popular than the Queen. Andrew cusses about journalists interfering with international trade deals. Kim Jong Il drinks like a fish. King Abdullah, who suggests implanting chips into Guantanamo detainees as a way to track them (as he does his Arabian stallions and falcons...
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Nov.30.2010
"I think that people at the high end, people like myself, should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it...The rich are always going to say that, you know, 'Just give us more money, and we'll go out and spend more, and then it will all trickle down to the rest...
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Jul.09.2010
"A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
Reading the news about Chrissy Steltz, an Oregon woman who lost her eyes and nose 11 years ago...
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Dec.11.2009
We ought to learn a thing or two from the Brits. First Susan Boyle, now Paddy Jones, a 75-year-old grandmother who blew away judges with her victory in Spain's version of "Britain's Got Talent."
Not only does Jones wear a daring dress and perform flips and slides during her salsa...
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Oct.29.2009
A month ago, I wrote about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Absolutists believe campaign finance reform is in violation of the First Amendment — corporations should have the same right to free speech enjoyed by individuals. They argue there's no evidence that overturning campaign...
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Oct.25.2009
Go forth, ye pilgrims, to Chichen Itzá and Tikal in search of Mayan prophecy and New Age Rapture, so that ye may spare we skeptics the long buffet lines at Down to Earth that we have so long endured...
And whilst you await divine inspiration—amusing the true Mayan descendants with...
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Sep.29.2009
"Nobody but a reader ever became a writer, and nobody but a very good reader ever became an editor."
~Richard Peck
Full article on www.publishersweekly.com.
Some of my fellow SCBWIers (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) have had the good fortune to...
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Sep.20.2009
"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~Thomas Jefferson, in an 1816 letter to George Logan
"Instead of serving a king...
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