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Light Bloggery 0
The surf was nice.
Tinysaurus? 0
From the UKofGBandNI Daily Mail via the Huffington Post: The formula used to calculate dinosaur size was flawed:
Other dinosaurs were also brought down to size by the new calculations. They included Styracosaurus, reduced by 21% from 4,200 kilograms to 3,300kg, and Diplodocus, which shed 27% of its weight and fell from 5,500kg to 4,000kg.
As for me, at one time I could do logarithms, but I don’t think I ever actually understood them.
Light Bloggery 1
Travel day. Going south for the weekend.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Without additional comment:
Police say a man with an Uzi submachine gun has robbed five West Philadelphia businesses this week
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Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Just like my neighbor.
There may be some signs of improvement that it could have been much worse.
This dovetailed well into a Federal Reserve report on manufacturing in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic area, where activity contracted in June for the ninth consecutive month but much less severely than anticipated and far less than the previous month.
Surprise, Surprise. 0
Racism turns a lot of persons off:
Twice this week Republican activists have apologized for racist humor.
What astounds me is that, after over half a century of the Civil Rights struggle, some white folks still haven’t figured out what kinds of words hurt other persons.
This is not an issue of “political correctness.” This is an issue of rude and bigoted behavior.
Bigotry is evil. Rudeness is, well, rude.
I say, “Keep it up, Republicans.” The better persons of good will know you, the less they like you.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Flag Day 0
The local rag had an interesting article on a local man who collects old American flags. Very old American flags.
It makes good Flag Day reading. A nugget:
The result, in an age before mass communication and mass production, was that seamstresses and flag-makers invented their own odd, often outlandish interpretations.
Some covered half the flag in blue. Others set the stripes vertically. Some put the stars on the stripes. Some added eagles, shields, or political slogans, because, after all, there was no rule against it – and no efficient means to compare one design to another.
Words Have Meaning 0
Winston Pickett, writing at the Guardian, on myths about those who commit crimes of hate.
A nugget:
End the politics of hate. Disavow those who feed the hate.