Sunday, April 07, 2013

Love Spring!


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  1. Howard Dean's leadership = Springtime in the USA

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  2. I've been so crazy busy that I haven't yet mentioned the big news that Ice Out happened on Lake Champlain's bays on Thursday!

    Sailing season can't be far behind!

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  3. Alan, I hope to have time to actually respond to your late evening posts. I very much enjoy reading your thoughts and discoveries. Keep 'em coming! :-)

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  4. My pleasure, listener. Thanks for the positive feedback. I think we all enjoy one another's contributions to the conversation of the village. On a less positive note, the blog link formatting that I stored away in my web mail drafts folder so I could use it remotely doesn't copy... well, sorry about the cut and paste, but here are a few items.--Alan

    Fascinating representation of voting social networks in the US Senate:

    http://news.yahoo.com/senate-social-network-diagram-mcconnell-mean-girls-000513361.html

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    From politicalwire.com:

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that "unless nominations start moving swiftly through the Senate, another round of dramatic rules changes may be in the offing," Roll Call reports.

    Said Reid: "All within the sound of my voice, including my Democratic senators and the Republican senators who I serve with, should understand that we as a body have the power on any given day to change the rules with a simple majority, and I will do that if necessary."

    Ya think?
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    Why so little ressurection in the United States?
    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/why-are-there-so-few-resurrected-corpses-in-the-united-states/274681/

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    An anthropologist joins the ranks of the underappreciated sanitation workers of New York City. The result? An eye-opening account of the mysterious and dangerous world of trash.
    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/the-secret-world-of-garbagemen/274536/

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  5. I have happened upon a writer new to me--Orhan Pamuk. What a fine teller of tales!

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  6. Pretty, blue and white and warm day! Glorious. But still no peepers! Almost a month late now. . .

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  7. Heh! Finally, finally, finally, I have (maybe two) peepers out there! Spring has finally arrived

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