The Best Drive in the World
On Easter, we drove down past Big Sur on California Highway 1, rightly considered to be one of the finest drives in the U.S., if not the world.A few days after that, we headed up the other direction...
View ArticleLast Chance to Help Kids and Birds
California Condor, south of Big SurTomorrow is the big day.You who have followed my posts, in Mojo Friday, Dawn Chorus, and a few other places, know what I mean.Birdathon is finally here.So this is...
View ArticleChemical Plant Blast in Louisiana
Breaking fast, so there's not a lot of detail yet.Reports coming in of a huge explosion at a chemical plant in Geismar, LA. The blast apparently happened at about 8:30 a.m. local time.Injuries are...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: Olympic National Park
Olympic Range from Hurricane Ridge Visitor CenterWe had never been to this national park, and had never seen some of the birds living in the extreme northwest part of the U.S., so it was with a lot of...
View ArticleShots fired at US Courthouse in Wheeling
Sketchy information, but here's what I've seen so far: A man with an assault-type rifle fired up to two dozen rounds at the federal court building in a West Virginia city on Wednesday before security...
View ArticleA Gang, A Gun, A Murder
Some murders are solved because of dogged and thorough police work. Other murders are solved because somebody finally talks. This was a case of the latter.It was a 9-year-old, true cold-case murder.And...
View ArticleRIP Franklin McCain; You Helped Change this Country
Franklin McCain, one of the "Greensboro Four" who was part of one of the first organized Civil Rights lunch counter sit-ins, died today.He was 73. "The best feeling of my life," McCain said in a 2010...
View ArticleDawn Chorus: Butt-sittin' Birding!
American White PelicansEvery year, when it's time for the annual Birdathon sponsored by Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society, we get up early, join the car-caravan, and drive all over this county to see...
View ArticleUkrainian Troops Claim Attack by Russians
Just seen: http://www.nytimes.com/... KIEV — Ukrainian troops at a base in Crimea's main city, Simferopol, said on Tuesday that they were being attacked by Russian forces and one soldier had been...
View ArticleWind Turbines Kill Birds
Renewable energy must be the goal. No right-thinking person can deny that.But wind energy comes with a cost: The deaths of thousands of birds and bats each year.And the Obama administration is "not...
View ArticleLast Chance; Our Audubon Fundraiser is Tomorrow!
As some of you know, my wife and I are doing a fundraiser tomorrow for our local Audubon Society, Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society.This is our last chance to get more donors before the event.Our...
View ArticleOil Train Derails, Burns in Lynchburg
Despite assurances from industry that behemoth trains carrying thousands of gallons of crude oil are safe, evidence continues to show that's not always the case.A CSX train derailed and burned in...
View ArticleAnd Now Comes Illegal Mining In the Salmon River
I have had just about enough of these fucking anti-government, "states-rights," destructive criminals.Criminals, yes that is what they are.When will federal or state governments finally just say...
View ArticleLiveblog: NLCS Game 3 -- Giants-Cards
Game 1: Giants Game 2: Cards Game 3: Below the orange baseball
View ArticleA Kossack Gets Elected: Congrats BayAreaKen!
Short diary here, but let's have some good news.Congratulations to one of the newest city council members in Mountain View, California: Ken Rosenberg.... our own BayAreaKen.I'm sure that Ken will write...
View Article3 million gallons of brine produced by fracking spills in ND!
Great, just damn great.Spill happened almost two weeks ago, at that, but they didn't tell anybody! Nearly 3 million gallons of saltwater generated by oil drilling have leaked from a North Dakota...
View ArticleLast Chance for Audubon Fundraiser!
Note: This is a new version of a March 8 diary I did for a Sunday Dawn Chorus. Please indulge a reprint here so that it can hit mid-week eyes who might not have seen a Sunday bird diary. We are almost...
View ArticleObama to Visit Alaska with Climate Change Discussion on Tap
President Obama will visit Alaska later this month.He will be the first president to visit rural, Bush Alaska.And he'll be talking climate change.
View ArticleFox Buys National Geographic? Aaarrghg!!!!
Breaking.My heart, that is.21st Century Fox, which is managed by James Murdoch, has bought National Geographic.
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