Inexplicably, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and John Prine turned up in my Shared Downloads folder doing You Are My Sunshine.

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Neato-burrito. And if that doesn’t improve your day, nothing will. But although I searched in all the usual places I couldn’t find...

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There’s an awful lot of tosh being talked about animals on farms and in diets these days. Militant vegetarians and vegans leaped on the recent FAO report to suggest that all we need to do to halt climate change is get rid of farm animals. Al Gore, they said,¹ can’t be committed to fighting g...

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I said I had some more Jim Watson stories, and I do. But I’m not going to tell them here. Instead, I’ll mention just one little problem I discovered in his latest confessional: Genes, Girls, and Gamow: After the Double Helix.

A lot of people know that Watson’s homie Crick resigned his founding...

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Feet of Clay Dept: Jim Watson, Nobel Laureate for his discovery of the structure of DNA has said that bicycles are extremely dangerous and ought to be banned. He has also pushed the origins of agriculture back to “caveman” days. Perhaps he was thinking of Raquel Welch, farmer and milkmaid? Actua...

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Over at Daily Kos, a behemoth that I have only lately started to attend to, there's a post from someone called lapolitichick about the milk-boosting hormone rBST and labeling, about which I wrote a few days ago. lapolitichick is smiling because a large California dairy will no longer accept milk...

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