Archive for April, 2009

Seriously? After forty years?

I have no idea who Randy Bish is other than that he appears to work at the Pittsburgh Tribune-​​​​Review. And if I were his edi­tor, I’d can him after this lit­tle piece of dri­vel culled from Cagle’s clear­ing­house of edi­to­ri­als (4÷15÷09): I mean come on. Chappaquiddick was 40 years ago. Is this hon­estly the best, the very […]

Yet another Easter miracle!

This is way beyond cool. An egg col­lected by Charles Darwin dur­ing his voy­age on HMS Beagle has been redis­cov­ered at Cambridge University. The small dark brown egg, with Darwin’s name writ­ten on it, was found by a retired vol­un­teer at the university’s zool­ogy museum. It bears a large crack, caused after the great nat­u­ral­ist put it […]

The thing that made the things for which there is no known maker

A nice lit­tle some­thing for the run-​​​​up to Easter.