The Wild Within

One of the best shows on television right now is Steven Rinella's "The Wild Within" on the Travel Channel, Sunday's at 10 pm.  

Death

"R" died last night... Or this morning... Not sure which. All I know is that I found him this morning, and it appeared obvious to me that it wasn't a pleasant passing.  

Hells Angel Funeral

KPHO in Phoenix AZ was invited to cover a funeral for a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club that passed away last week.  Full Story

Do you remember Terri?

Do you remember Terri Schiavo?

Gingrich has problems

Gingrich has problems alright...  


He was giving a talk at the University of Pennsylvania yesterday when he was asked by Isabel Friedman how he reconciles his personal history with the religious values he attempts to force onto the rest of us as he runs for president.

A great take on hunting

While browsing weblogs this afternoon, I ran into one I enjoyed very much written by Retrieverman.  I wanted to share a quote with you from his post and a link to his weblog so you can read the full post yourself.

"The Darwinian world that is nature is not a pretty place. No one would ever want to build a society based upon those principles (at least not within the mainstream body politic). Predation is one of the factors that keeps nature what it is. Because nature requires predation to keep things in balance, I have often thought this to be the best argument against intelligent design.

If I were an intelligent designer, I’d make so that predation never happens and is never necessary.

But that isn’t reality.

And for those who do not understand that humans are actually part of the guild of predators, all I can say is that you’ve not really looked at your evolutionary history. You are an organism on this planet. Your ancestors were once totally controlled by the forces of natural selection. In the end, we still are. One of the most dangerous delusions of the modern world is for us to think we are forever separated from nature because we have all this nice technology.

In reality, nature still casts a shadow onto our condition, whether we like that shadow or not.

The moral thing is to accept it and to use it for purposes that uplift our species and the whole of animate creation."

Very well said Retrieverman!  Very well said.

Animal Rights

The people in the animal rights crowd know very little about animals or rights.  The idea that animals have "rights" is absolutely ridiculous.  Just talking to one for about 5 minutes reveals how little they really know about what they're talking about.

Our Garden List

This is a list I'm building of the plants we have (the ones I have names for anyway).  When possible, I'm including photos and the approximate date we planted our first specimen of each variety.

Worms eat my garbage

One of my main passions is gardening, and with it, recycling/composting.  Composting with worms, or "Vermicomposting" is the best way of creating clean, fertile, organic soil for gardening, and it doesn't require any special equipment, chemicals, and really not that much work.  It's also the best way to fix soil, or to condition poor soil to make it suitable for gardening and farming.

If everyone would keep a small worm bin or worm farm to use to compost their kitchen waste and yard waste, and if they gave away or spread that compost in their yard or garden, we'd have a much greener country, and we'd be diverting thousands of tons of waste from our landfills.

Darwin Day

In Celebration of Darwin Day!


Evolution Made Us All from Ben Hillman on Vimeo.