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| Scotland: The Grant Tower at Urquhart Castle (Photo Diary) | Ojibwa | 12/24/2016 | 4 |
| Christmas Eve NFL preview: (almost) everybody plays on Saturday! Because Christmas falls on Sunday this year, there are only two games that day, with the rest of the Sunday games shifted to Erev Christmas (no, it’s not a typo). The four teams playing on Sunday ... |
Ian Reifowitz | 12/24/2016 | 9 |
| The Daily Bucket - Oh Christmas Tree Every year since we’ve been here on the NE corner of the Olympic Peninsula, we’ve chosen a living native tree as a Christmas Tree and planted it on our property after the holidays (as if we need ... |
Milly Watt | 12/24/2016 | 5 |
| Cartoon: The holidays' hottest gifts Christmas is right around the corner, and we’re about to get an orange lump of coal in our stockings. Whether you celebrate or not, I hope the next week or two provides a brief respite from the ... |
BrianMcFadden | 12/23/2016 | 4 |
| LeMay Hall (Automobile Photo Diary) The LeMay Family Collection of about 1,900 antique and vintage automobiles has been recognized as the world’s largest automobile collection. About 500 vehicles from this collection are on display ... |
Ojibwa | 12/23/2016 | 11 |
| Cartoon: The Trump who stole America
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Everyone seems so ready to be done with 2016, but I’m a little more concerned ... |
Mark Fiore | 12/23/2016 | 21 |
| Daily Bucket: Some Red for the Holidays A “concept” bucket today. What are we seeing whose primary color is Red?
Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina) [Philadelphia, PA] |
owktree | 12/23/2016 | 44 |
| Cartoon: Santa Trump Santa Trump is delivering nukes to all the little boys and girls who were nice, naughty, it doesn’t really matter, does it? Because Santa Trump has said he’d like to use nuclear weapons and recently tweeted that he wants to increase our already huge... |
laloalcaraz | 12/23/2016 | 1 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Natural Bridges Butterfly Adventure Last Saturday my parents, my grandparents and I went to Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz, California. We went there because my mom wanted to see B-3930, a butterfly named “Miracle .” Even ... |
TheLittleOne | 12/22/2016 | 53 |
| Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse Needs Our Help and Hope In case you don't know me, my name is TheLittleOne, or TLO. Befitting my name, I am twelve years old and in the seventh grade. Just a warning, I do have a little bit of sarcasm at appropriate ... |
TheLittleOne | 12/22/2016 | 112 |
| When insulting intolerance is what you give, it's also what you get So the Conservo-crowd has a new whine. This time it’s that Liberals are just too “intolerant” of Trump — because of his long string of bigoted , rude, insulting, misogynist, intolerant views and actions such as demanding his Administration staff have... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/22/2016 | 37 |
| Trump's willful ignorance could cripple CIA officers and assets Former Undercover CIA operative J.C. Carleson has a message for America about the impact of Donald Trump repeatedly kneecapping the CIA and ignoring the security briefings he’s been receiving over Russia’s hacking of U.S. email accounts during the... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/22/2016 | 12 |
| Indians 101: Anishinaabe Beadwork (Photo Diary) The oral tradition of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwa or Chippewa) tells of the five original clans – Crane, Catfish, Loon, Bear, and Marten – traveling west from the Atlantic Ocean, through the Great ... |
Ojibwa | 12/22/2016 | 12 |
| The Daily Bucket--"My Side of the Story." Welcome to Backyard Science’s The Daily Bucket. Please let us know what goes on around you in a comment. Your weather, the birds at your feeder, a pretty flower, how big that full moon looked, are all fine topics. Please include your general area, and... |
6412093 | 12/22/2016 | 68 |
| Cartoon: It's a Wonderful Life in Trumpville FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book .
Help in Aleppo: JOIN Tom the Dancing Bug's subscription club, the INNER HIVE today, and a donation will be made to Doctors Without Borders. |
RubenBolling | 12/22/2016 | 12 |
| Is it possible Trump doesn't divest because he can't afford it? Josh Marshall from Talking Points Memo has an interesting proposition. Perhaps the reasons Trump refuses to release his tax returns and is so intractable about fully and completely divesting himself from his various business interests is because he... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/21/2016 | 202 |
| Religion 101: Creation Science and Intelligent Design Many religions, but not all, have creation stories which tell about the origins of the world, of the plants and animals, and of the humans. In oral traditions, these stories are told as metaphors ... |
Ojibwa | 12/21/2016 | 45 |
| Daily Bucket: biologists wage #BestSpots Twitter battle My bio-centric profession isn’t all data and detached scientific woof-woof. We had a cutest critter Twitter battle earlier this year and now the game is on for #BestSpots . This means spots as ... |
Besame | 12/21/2016 | 94 |
| Cartoon: Political hacks talk Russia hacks Follow me on Twitter at @MattBors and pick up an Illustrated Calendar of Obscure Holidays for 2017. |
Matt Bors | 12/21/2016 | 12 |
| Cartoon: Steve Bannon www.patreon.com/... |
keefknight | 12/20/2016 | 16 |
| Art and Automobiles (Photos): Street Prophets Coffee Hour Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, an open thread conveniently located at the intersection of Religion and Politics. Today’s topic is about finding art in an ... |
Ojibwa | 12/20/2016 | 7 |
| Indians 101: Voluntary Associations Among the Omaha Indians Many American Indian nations had formal groups which cross-cut kinship ties. These formal groups, known as voluntary associations, sodalities, warrior societies, military societies, and healing ... |
Ojibwa | 12/20/2016 | 6 |
| CUA Events: Women's March on DC 1/21, numerous sister events! Ever keep a diary? Welcome to Connect! Unite! Act!
A daily series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups regularly socialize but also get out the ... |
ericlewis0 | 12/20/2016 | 90 |
| The Daily Bucket - "Seascapes" calendar for mom
Every year I create a nature calendar for my mom. She likes to keep track of her events — like family gatherings, her book club, medical appointments — by writing them into the boxes of a ... |
OceanDiver | 12/20/2016 | 83 |
| Cartoon: The Republican guide to screwing the working class Follow Jen on Twitter at @... |
Jen Sorensen | 12/20/2016 | 148 |
| One of our finest organizers now needs help herself Look, I’m lazy. I should do things like write posts here regularly, but I tend to let it slip. That’s why I was always grateful when Linda McClure, aka PatriotDaily, would round me up for one of her blogathons. She helped pioneer a new way to use the... |
Bill McKibben | 12/19/2016 | 52 |
| Museums 101: "Cranes, Dragons, and Teddy Bears" (Photo Diary) Cranes, Dragons, and Teddy Bears is a display of Japanese Children’s Kimono from the collection of Marita and David Paly which was displayed at the Portland Art Museum. According to the display:
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Ojibwa | 12/19/2016 | 11 |
| Cartoon: Post truth world Support independent cartooning: join Sparky's List ! |
Tom Tomorrow | 12/19/2016 | 90 |
| The Last Sane Republican in Oklahoma (Originally appeared in The Tulsa Voice)
Disclosure: Carol Bush and I have been friends for 35 years, ever since she owned Beach Party, a surf shop on Brookside, in the 80s.
She arrives at Old School Bagel Cafe singing.
Beach Party, baby... |
vuzvilla | 12/19/2016 | 6 |
| The Daily Busket - CA Kelp Forest Disaster
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, ... |
enhydra lutris | 12/19/2016 | 77 |
| Kurt Eichenwald is fighting for all of us There’s been talk—including here—that Kurt Eichenwald is going a little too far in being so open about his vow to take down the deplorable who deliberately gave him a seizure on Thursday by tweeting a strobe GIF at him. I disagree. Eichenwald is doing... |
Christian Dem in NC | 12/18/2016 | 220 |
| Without this data on race, place, and jobs we cannot fully understand how Trump eked out a win I’m more pissed off about this election than I was a month ago. What we’ve learned recently about what Russia did —not to mention what Mitch McConnell wouldn’t allow our ... |
Ian Reifowitz | 12/18/2016 | 385 |
| Donald Trump's administration needs to be stopped, blocked, and shut down—completely On Nov. 8, America showed us that it is mad. No, not mad as in angry. Mad as in losing our goddamn mind. We—well, some of us—elected a lying narcissist sociopath bigot to the most powerful position in the world. There were various reasons this... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/18/2016 | 280 |
| Ancient Scotland: The Home With the development of agriculture during the Neolithic era (New Stone Age), people were able to settle down and construct permanent structures of wood and stone for their homes. Prior to ... |
Ojibwa | 12/18/2016 | 5 |
| Dawn Chorus: State Birds As I’m sure we all know, the national bird of the U.S. is the Bald Eagle although Benjamin Franklin famously advocated for the Turkey. Every state in the U.S. also has an official state bird. There are also official birds for the District of Columbia,... |
matching mole | 12/18/2016 | 85 |
| Daily Bucket: B is For... Second in the Alphabet Bucket series. Today’s Bucket is brought to you by the letter “B”.
Beautyberry — Philadelphia, PA
The Daily Bucket ... |
owktree | 12/18/2016 | 24 |
| My interview with the man who connected the dots on the FBI conspiracy to screw Hillary There had been talk for some time that the events leading up to the Comey letter involved unethical, and potentially criminal, behavior on the part of the FBI. It seemed hard to believe at first. That is, until HuffPo columnist, professor, and... |
Christian Dem in NC | 12/17/2016 | 219 |
| Trumpism has become a open threat to fact and reality I can understand a difference of opinion, but we’ve reached a point where basic facts have become fungible. When you have rampant fake news and a President who along with his cabinet and supporters openly traffic conspiracy theories and fact denialism... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/17/2016 | 23 |
| The Daily Bucket:
Autumn in California and
Anza-Borrego desert state park
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California Photographs by
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Bucket diary
- Angmar
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The Daily Bucket
is a place to note what... |
Angmar | 12/17/2016 | 56 |
| A Very Short History of the English Language As both a mother tongue and as a second language, English is one of the most frequently used languages in the world. As a first language, English with 335 million native speakers ranks third behind ... |
Ojibwa | 12/17/2016 | 202 |
| Wingnut troll deliberately gives Kurt Eichenwald a seizure Kurt Eichenwald has been a bur in the butt of Donald Trump and his campaign for most of the year. So it should surprise no one that he’s been a favorite target of the Twitter trolls acting in Trump’s name.
Well, one of them went way too far after... |
Christian Dem in NC | 12/16/2016 | 329 |
| FBI agrees with CIA that Russia implemented DNC hacks to install Trump as President So the other shoe has finally dropped, and it’s landed right on top of our Democracy.
Previously, the FBI had maintained that it didn’t know the true motives behind Russia’s hacks on Democrats, but The Washington Post reports that FBI Director... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/16/2016 | 13 |
| Cartoon: Trump's newest cabinet picks Every pick Trump (or Pence, most likely) has made for his cabinet is the person most likely to eliminate the department they're going to be running. Grover Norquist's vision of drowning the ... |
BrianMcFadden | 12/16/2016 | 68 |
| Franklin Graham asks who really hacked the election. Really. We all know Russia was behind massive hacking to influence the election. The FBI knows it. The CIA knows it. So who would even think we needed to wonder who was responsible? Well, apparently Franklin Graham does.
On Wednesday, Graham fils blasted... |
Christian Dem in NC | 12/16/2016 | 41 |
| Lawyers needed for Standing Rock trials Lawyers for Standing Rock Water Protectors who have been arrested in North Dakota for their activist opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through ancestral Sioux lands are pleading for more help because there aren’t enough... |
navajo | 12/16/2016 | 60 |
| Cartoon: From Russia with loveski
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Mark Fiore | 12/16/2016 | 13 |
| Daily Bucket: A Walk Along Wrightsville Beach Dec 10, 2016
A quick weekend visit was made to the Wilmington, NC area. Since we were staying right on Wrightsville Beach my brother and I took a walk along part of it on Saturday morning.
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owktree | 12/16/2016 | 34 |
| Cartoon: Build that wall The Pendejo-Elect thinks we are all as gullible as his supporters. Not only will he not build a wall on the southern border, his promise to build a wall between the Presidency and his businesses also won’t be built. Or if it is, it will be as porous as... |
laloalcaraz | 12/15/2016 | 13 |
| Cartoon: Surrender is victory FOLLOW @RubenBolling on the Twitters and a Face Book .
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RubenBolling | 12/15/2016 | 56 |
| The Daily Bucket: Gentle shades of umber The granitic rock formations in the photograph began life underground as molten magma. Eventually horizontal and vertical cracks developed, groundwater weathered the edges of the granite blocks ... |
fll7612 | 12/15/2016 | 114 |
| The Case For Natural History Museums As a former small museum curator I have certainly some biases, but these were developed over many years and are based on fairly solid experiences and data. In addition, over my career as a taxonomist (describing new species and relating these to known... |
Desert Scientist | 12/14/2016 | 79 |
| Daily Bucket: one remarkable butterfly sets two records and makes monarch history On a cold, windy, late October day B-3930 was released into the air of a wildlife refuge near Boise Idaho. This was a late start in bad weather for a monarch butterfly who needed to travel southwest to California’s overwintering habitat. But... |
Besame | 12/14/2016 | 126 |
| Cartoon: How Putin hacked 2016 Follow me on Twitter at @MattBors and pick up an Illustrated Calendar of Obscure Holidays for 2017. |
Matt Bors | 12/14/2016 | 169 |
| Cartoon: Tiny House Buy shitloads at www.kchronicles.com!! |
keefknight | 12/13/2016 | 7 |
| The Daily Bucket - Run, Forrest, Run! Welcome to the Backyard Science group’s publication of The Daily Bucket. Please let us know what goes on around you in a comment. Your weather, the birds at your feeder, a pretty flower, how big that full moon looked, are all fine topics. Please... |
6412093 | 12/13/2016 | 59 |
| Cartoon: 2016, a year to fear This strip revisits an earlier cartoon , in which a 1990s couple is warned about future developments. Alas, I don’t have much confidence in the Russia revelations changing anything. If there’s ... |
Jen Sorensen | 12/13/2016 | 20 |
| The Daily Bucket - December swans Pacific Northwest, December 2016
The Trumpeter swans arrived late this year, as I mentioned in a Bucket a few weeks ago. I heard them on November 17 trumpeting their arrival in the pond across the road. In 2015 they arrived Nov 4 and in 2014, Nov 11... |
OceanDiver | 12/12/2016 | 95 |
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