First Looks category archive
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The Lies of the Land 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Christian Hart investigates the personality traits of those who lie. Here’s a bit:
Follow the link for more.
Aside:
Sound like anyone you know?
(Broken link fixed.)
Virginia Beach Drinking Liberally Thursday 0
Join us to discuss the Carnival of Carnality that calls itself–well, I’ll just tell you what the old man used to say about my state Senator when I was little: “He calls himself a lawyer.”
When: Thursday, October 10, 6 p. m.
Where:
Croc’s 19 Street Bistro
620 19th Street (Map)
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Farm Weather Report 1
There’s weather, and I’m under it. Bloggery may be sporadic for a couple of days.
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Off to drink liberally.
“Take ’em Up on It” 0
Shannon Green offers a “can’t fail” strategy for promoting sane gun laws.
Kiwi Humor 0
I’ve been watching a few episodes of the New Zealand series, The Brokenwood Mysteries, and realized that the church that figures in several episodes is named “St. Judas.”
Plastic Here, Plastic There, Plastic Plastic Everywhere 0
There’s plastic every where. Here’s an excerpt for the story in The Denver Post:
USGS scientists found more plastic particles in water samples drawn from the urban sites — which followed a line from the National Jewish Hospital in east Denver through downtown to Arvada, the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus and Boulder Canyon.
But Wetherbee and his team also found frequent plastics contamination in water samples drawn at a mountain site near Nederland and at a relatively isolated Loch Vale site at an elevation of 10,364 feet above sea level beneath towering peaks in Rocky Mountain National Park — a watershed that scientists have monitored for more than 20 years for chemical contamination from wind and rain.
(Why do I see a move to Kansas City in these researchers’ future?)
A Well-Unread Citizenry 0
In a related, more serious vein, Mark Chaffee argues that we are not a well-informed citizenry.
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