annoying morning, nice day

So, I was supposed to go off and wargame with some chaps. ( Read more... )

recent burd notes

Saw recently several times a young robin in his spotted waistcoat. A red-bellied woodpecker was sitting out on the roof in front of the house and on the eaves in front of the front window, exciting the cats a great deal. :-) Nicest of all, as I was talking a walk late this evening through the park, I saw a barred owl. He flew into a tree ahead of me, and I walked up very slowly up the path and stood almost under his branch; he looked at me for a little while, then flew off into the woods. :-)

ouch!

Everyone's been heaping encomia on the late Robert Byrd this week. But I'm watching the American Experience "Roads to Memphis" program this evening about the murder of Dr King, and they had a clip of a speech by Senator Byrd, a speech that showed what I believe were always his true colours--white, white, and white. He condemns King's Poor People's Campaign, suggests that King is a coward, and calls him a troublemaker who gets other people into trouble and runs away.

He may have had second thoughts late in life, but I have trouble believing that a man as steeped in racism and hatred as he was for so long ever truly changed.