Weekend wound up

I guess it's officially holiday season? Our freshman daughter has been home for four days and heads back to college tomorrow. It's been really fun having her home. She'll be back in less than three weeks for Christmas break.

Friday funnies at the Puppetshow, courtesy of Sir Jack the Hawke.

Free-market extremists say they want to run government like a business, except in one really important way. They don't want government to compete. Odd isn't it? If what they say is true about free markets, the Invisible Hand of Capitalism depends on competition to do its magic.

Let government compete?

What a day!

It looks like the original author deleted his/her post about Blackwater and Womble Carlyle. It's probably just as well given how heated things were getting. But just to be clear, I didn't do it.

OMG. Maybe we were hacked!

Not for the birds.

Provisional tallies for 2007 show that nesting for some shorebirds is down significantly from the last count in 2004. Nest numbers for gull-billed terns declined 9 percent and those for black skimmers fell 11 percent. Nesting for the common term went down 13 percent.