Squirrel gets on, squirrel gets twirled round and round until it barfs and gets off. Squirrel doesn’t get to eat birdies’ food. But how long do you think it will be until squirrel finds a way to defeat the mechanism?
Natural World
A Little Light Link Gardening
The spring is sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where them boidies is…
Today I shall be mostly desperately trying to catch up with the explosion of thought-provoking posts on the aftermath and implications of the Scooter Libby guilty verdict, but not for too long becuse I’ve spent so much time recently sitting reading blogs. Now I have a sore spot, somewhere very uncivil indeed.
With that in mind I feel it prudent that I should do a lot of standing up today, so when I’ve finished this post I’ll go and get some chickenwire to block off the fence and stop the neighbourhood cats shitting in the back of the shady border and some hellebores to stop it becoming a permanent cat toilet.
In the meantime, if you’re looking for serious commentary there’s Simon Jenkins’ stinging article on the innate corruption of tonight’s House of Lords reform vote for you to read, or Digby’s “Where’s Rove?” or for a really in depth meaty read there’s TPM Muckraker‘s coverage of the growing scandal and congrssional hearings over Bushco’s attempted purge of koolaid-non-compliant federal lawyers.
Then, weather permitting, there’s some manure to dig in and some to remove and some shrubs to be shifted around (I love the way that makes our 50sq m courtyard garden sound like Kew) and some climbing roses, honeysuckle and anemone corms to be planted and lavender cuttings to be taken, all this inbetween ministering to Martin, who’s home sick, and cursing our own bloody cats for tracking mud in and out.
After that I shall mostly be knackered.
Dark Roasted Blend asks: “If the world was made out of rubber, and would stretch according to the certain parameters…” and features these incredible maps of economic and other imbalances from the Worldmapper project. Here’s the world mapped according to house prices:
For a little light relief from the all meltdown, all the time transatlantic political coverage, and heaven knows we all need it, you could do worse try that hybrid offspring of Glamour and Roll Call, Capitol Hill Barbie. :
Spring Has Not Yet Sprung – Face Forward
Just in time for my daily daydream about what it will be like when Mayor Fenty actually clears the streets of the ice, the 18 tons of rock salt currently on the ground stop crusting over my Delman flats washes away and the sun makes more than a guest starring appearance in my day…
Kiehl’s has announced that they have created a tinted moisturizer!
Yay, governments are crumbling, let’s shop!
Last but not least, the natural world -if you’re at all scared of the sea or worried about melting glaciers and inundations of ocean, don’t look now….
Imagine one those nibbling on your toes…
By the way, did you know we’ve been banned in China? That makes me very proud.We must be doing something right.
Oh and I nearly forgot: Michael Savage for Prez!
More Cash For Honours: Yes, It Was The Emails
The Independent reports:
Email led to BBC legal gag in cash for honours probe
Document at centre of injunction led to change of police tactics, as detectives prepare to send their final files to the CPS By Francis Elliott, Whitehall Editor
Published: 04 March 2007Detectives in charge of the cash-for-honours investigation gagged the BBC because it was about to reveal details of a significant email, The Independent on Sunday has learnt.
The existence of the email is thought to explain why police switched their attention from the alleged sale of honours to claims that there had been a subsequent cover-up.
Senior BBC sources last night indicated that it would not be seeking to overturn an injunction imposed on Friday night after an application by the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, who said releasing details of the communication, believed to be known by the BBC political editor Nick Robinson, would harm the inquiry.
The injunction suggests the police are about to send their final files – together with a recommendation about whether to prosecute – to the Crown Prosecution Service.
This newspaper has been told that Tony Blair expects the year-long investigation to come to an end this week. A long-awaited independent report on party funding, delayed until the conclusion of the police probe, is pencilled in for next week.
Detectives are thought to have uncovered the email last year. It was one of the “major developments” alluded to by John Yates, the police chief in charge of the investigation, in a letter to MPs on 16 November.
Since that letter, the Prime Minister’s chief fundraiser, Lord Levy, has been arrested and questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Ruth Turner, No 10’s director of government relations, has also been arrested. Ms Turner has been questioned on suspicion of perverting the course of justice, not, as in Lord Levy’s case, of conspiracy to do so.
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How Very Sporting
The K Word
Strewth! Australia rocked by ‘lesbian’ koala revelation
By Roger Dobson
Published: 25 February 2007Female koalas indulge in lesbian “sex sessions”, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers.
The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.
Scientists monitoring the marsupials with digital cameras counted three homosexual interactions for every heterosexual one.
“Some females rejected the advances of males that were in their enclosures, only to become willing participants in homosexual encounters immediately after,” say the researchers.
“On several occasions more than one pair of females shared the same pole, and multiple females mounted each other simultaneously. At least one multiple encounter involved five female koalas.”