… a little blue heron, and two dive-bombing brown pelicans. Morning activity along my deck, on an inlet to the Gulf of Mexico.
… a little blue heron, and two dive-bombing brown pelicans. Morning activity along my deck, on an inlet to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
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Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
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University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
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Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
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Notes of a Neophyte
January 7th, 2019 at 9:23AM
With the exceptions of Canada geese and starlings, there is probably no bird more hated around here than cormorants.
January 7th, 2019 at 10:56AM
tp: Why? Aside from the fact that they aren’t very pretty, I know nothing about cormorants.
January 7th, 2019 at 2:08PM
Don’t listen to him UD. Cormorants are wonderful birds. Those emerald eyeballs!
January 7th, 2019 at 2:35PM
Other than denuding trees for their nests, shitting their corrosive guano and barf (they are both prodigious barfers and shitters) over everything, stripping lakes and ponds of smaller gamefish (can’t quite swallow that fish you caught?–hell, take a couple of bites out of it and then leave the rest to rot), and breeding like rats, I guess that double-crested cormorants (the type around here) are OK.
January 7th, 2019 at 4:50PM
Anon: And they inspired a poem.
January 7th, 2019 at 6:14PM
theprofessor: Pffft. No human should be criticizing another species for shitting too much, denuding trees or wasting gamefish.
UD: google videos of diving cormorants and be amazed. My favorite is the cormorant pulling a sucker off a whale shark. Such determination, and then the ‘pop’ when it finally comes off…. I love seeing them swimming – halfway to a penguin.
January 8th, 2019 at 10:10AM
A couple of diving cormorants are entertaining. The problem is when they show up with their 1000 closest relatives and friends.