Author Archives: shannon

Reasons To Live

You like spaghetti, George?  I like spaghetti?  I like board games.  I like grabbing the trifecta with that long shot on top.  That ozone smell you get from air purifiers.  And I like knowing the space between my ears is immeasurable. Mahler’s first, Bernstein conducting.  You’ve got to think about all the things you like [...]

Biologist Pan Wenshi Helps a Region and a Species, the Langur - NYTimes.com

“Long ago, in the poverty-stricken hills of southern China, a village banished its children to the forest to feed on wild fruits and leaves. Years later, when food stores improved, the children’s parents returned to the woods to reclaim their young.
To their surprise, their offspring had adapted to forest life remarkably well; the children’s white [...]

E. J. Dionne Jr. - Whose Elitism Problem Now? - washingtonpost.com

And nothing more exposes the hypocrisy of financial elites riding the coattails of those who revere small-town religious values than a downturn that highlights the vast gulf in power between the two key components of the conservative coalition. Even cultural conservatives will start to notice that McCains tax policies are geared toward the wealthy investing [...]