Birds and book, day 207

[emmarytz]

It's a moody or broody little evening hereabouts with lots of what I've just termed "just stupid" going around it seems. This attitude comes, in part, from having had a look at the candidates for one of Washington's US Senate seats. Dino Rossi looks like one of the least insane of the candidates and that's just plain scary. In a field of fifteen, a couple of guys think that God is angry and punishing us, another believes the people of Spaceship Earth are his family, one candidate wants to talk about how the secretary of state is behaving illegally by not publishing a voter's pamphlet while another goes on about how Obama owes him the election and he could have been Secretary of Health had he wanted. Then there are the football players and business-types who are convinced that everything would be okay if we'd just cut taxes and yet I don't think any of them would ever fail to "support our troops." I admit that we didn't get past that first position; I'm afraid to see what those running for the House have to say for themselves (but I'm willing to bet it will be ungrammatical, poorly spelled, and, at least some of the time, in the third person).

Just to get the political ranting portion of this post out of the way, it seems that there's a petition drive to give the best seat at White House Press Conferences to NPR rather than FOX. Why they can't just let the first person to arrive sit there, as it seems every other seat is allocated, I don't know, but the petition can be found here.

Oh, birds. How I have missed you.

Birds
bushtits
peregrine falcon
osprey
crows
starlings
gulls
pigeons
northern flicker
house finches
house sparrows
black-capped chickadees
swallows

Book
Seymour An Introduction (page 150; I'm beginning to get the joke)