Happy Monday

Back To Say Goodbye?

A few days ago I read a story about how the final push in the filibuster brouhaha would begin this very week. Over the weekend, Tim Russert brought two Senatorial bobble-heads onto his television program to discuss it. Today, I read about U.S. forces mounting an offensive near the Syrian border with Iraq (…"one of the largest ground operations by American forces since the fall of Falluja last fall, [the offensive] is expected to last several days"). How is Karl Rove supposed to achieve his "permanent republican majority" if all we ever get from the Republicans is arrogance and death?

*Sigh*.

Happily, all is not yet completely lost. Indeed, the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker has been found alive; which is very swell news indeed. I made a visit to the Field Museum yesterday and discovered that one of the ornithologists from the Museum (who, incidentally, had traveled to the swampy south to verify the existence of the Lord God Bird) was exhibiting specimens and fielding questions. Tremendous. Also, for those who may be unaware, the birds collection at the filed museum (while sadly presented) is quite spectacular. They have a gorgeous Paradisaea rudolphi.