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Humans produce waste.  Not just bodily waste, but all kinds of garbage.  Most of what we know about Stone Age cultures comes from examining their garbage piles.  If Fairfax, California, has its way, though, archaeologists are not going to have an easy time of it if they’re scavenging Fairfax garbage in the distant future: Fairfax [...]

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I know that we have been round and round on climate issues in our always edifying Bookworm Room discussions, so here is an interesting lecture that I found at our friends at Flopping Aces. The lecturer, Prof. Courtillot, professor of geophysics at the University of Paris, does an excellent job summarizing both historical data and [...]

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As Kate over at smalldeadanimals likes to say, now is the time when we juxtapose: First, a video (you need to watch this to the very end, but *** Caution***graphic imagery may be disturbing to some): (h/t smalldeadanimals.com) Then, compare this to the self-serving bloviations of a hard-Left legislator regarding the killing of predatory birds [...]

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Am I the only one who has had it up to here and more with the relentless imperative that I buy green?  I have this incredible urge to pollute and waste.  I do not like being bullied, and I am being bullied. When I’m at the store, surrounded by all the little soldiers staggering under [...]

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