Recap: A little of this and that

Taken from NEW YORK TIMES today:

Interviews found voters expressing degrees of skepticism
about President Bush's motives in delivering a set of
high-profile speeches on terrorism.

-"In Unpredictable District, Some Say Bush Is Politicizing
Terrorism" By CARL HULSE

You know what's better yet? The fact that THAT article was followed by THIS:

President Bush sought to place the war in Iraq in the
context of an epic battle between tyranny and freedom.

-"In Prime-Time Address, Bush Says Safety of U.S. Hinges on Iraq" By JIM RUTENBERG and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Well well. Some of those who chose to remain blind are so because they don't know any other way of existing, and some of those who choose to be blind chose with their eyes wide open. The latter are always the ones who baffle me but, as the saying goes, there's no accounting for taste, i.e. opinions, i.e. I'm sometimes so incredibly bewildered by people and am even more bewildered to find out how NOT alone I am.

But those who pay any marginal kind of attention do notice things. That's good to know.

I'll wager that the region here-abouts would be listed as one of those "unpredictable districts"-- oh wait, nevermind, we're predictable. We're predictable enough that Mr. President wants to avoid SF at all costs which is still, I think, showing an remarkable deal of forethought for him (or for his counsellors, who knows?). Or maybe that was self-preservation. In the present era, it's often hard to tell them about.

In terms of Davis preparation, I'm at the stage of "Okay all my stuff except for my laptop and my sketchbook are in boxes now so those are the two things that I will waste all my time on". (It's a very long name for a stage, but it's also a very important stage in what I'm now going to call my Yearly Migration Period.)

Meanwhile, according to ENN, global warming will bring back dinosaur-era-like weather (though, as far as I know, no dinosaurs). Which makes me wonder what some of the fast-evolving species, the drosophila (fruitfly) for example, will look like by then. Then again, it probably wouldn't look THAT different. Bugs (Hexapoda/ Insecta, specifically) have very resilient design and the majority of it's always kept the same, as can be seen in those bug-containing ambers. Maybe we'll see a return of the giant dragonflies? Or maybe ants and cockroaches will finally take over the world. Species extinction is imminent, anyhow.

Not-so-subliminal message made yet more obvious: global warming is no cause for joy.

The cacti live on. Mom's afraid she might accidentally kill it, so I might be bring THOSE with me to Davis as well.