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The Abandoned Plymouth: When I last spoke I had just embarrassed a future King of Reptiles after a trip to the ‘glades. On that same trip t...

The indigo snake ( Drymarchon corais ) hunt, or, why do you find an orange krait ( Bungaris aurantiacus taeniatus ) in the everglades? Good...

These words are often used to demean or otherwise attack someone: “He is probably a card-carrying member of the ACLU.” And that is bad? Con...

There must be some good news, she said. Well, there is. This is the most gorgeous spring in a long time. A riot of blooming things: trees, ...

A while ago I wrote an essay about something and mentioned “remembering the future” somewhere. As ‘Woody 7.0” gets close thoughts of a trun...

“Unlike most past views of tomorrow, which look hopelessly obsolete (’nothing dates like the future’), the premise of Future Shock can only ...

Just when you think “It can’t get any more depraved than that”, it does. The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the law making videos of do...

Newt Gingrich: NEW ORLEANS -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday that he thinks Republicans will repeal “virtually everything...

Photo: Adolf Ott, commander of death squads in the Einsatzgruppen (see link below for more on this) that executed (murdered) tens of thousan...

The Story: In 1964 or so, my colleague Fred spotted a nesting colony of a recent arrival to the area called the Smooth-billed Ani. A small f...