Biomes Blog

Entry #3874: Ten Years Later

Today’s long read: Charles Pierce’s essay on New Orleans ten years after Katrina.

Bad Yelp reviews.

Entry #3873: BLM

The press will make it out to seem like it's the proposal of radicals, but how can this plan by Black Lives Matter in any way be controversial?

Entry #3872: Hypocrites

I like the caption under this photo: "Above: The ancestors of today's anti-immigrant Republicans".

Entry #3871: Bleat

Thomas Thwaites is trying out living life as a goat. He had special prosthetics built to walk and climb on four legs and even looked into surgery to create an artificial rumen in order to digest grass.

Entry #3870: Piling On

Humor is all we have to deal with the slight but real possibility that any member of the Republican clown car could end up occupying the White House one day soon. So here's some bad lip reading.

Entry #3869: Soccer Face

Here's the story behind the hilarious video of the Yale soccer goalie who blocked five penalty shots with his face. It's not real, but the announcer is great, and it got ten million views in the first ten days of its release.

Entry #3868: Little Republicans

Entry #3867: Alpacas

There's an alpaca farm just outside Newport RI.

I was surprised how friendly they are.

And curious about being photographed.

Here's the same one just before stepping back and spitting in my face. 

The exercise yard overlooks Narragansett Bay.

Their Facebook page focuses on efforts to preserve the farm from some town council members who want to take it over and develop the property.

Entry #3866: Good Guy/Bad Guy

Jon Stewart is turning his farm house into an animal sanctuary.

Donald Trump’s guide to acting presidential: How the lumbering goon is making a mockery of the electoral process.

Entry #3865: Hubble at Twenty-five

Today's slide show is a collection of a quarter of a century's worth of Hubble photographs.

Entry #3864: DC Statehood

Stick around for the song at the end.

Entry #3863: Tree Asp

Here's a caterpillar that resembles Trump's hair.

After brushing the great pyrenees I discovered my own version.

Entry #3862: Fields of Gold

I stumbled across this field of sunflowers out in eastern Connecticut last night. Click to embiggen.