Weekend Tidbits or an Ode to Hedgehogs, Water, and the Deep Time of Trees, plus a few Con Men

Hedgehogs, UK Politics, and general understated Amusement in this Metafilter post: “1566 seems very recent, but the hedgehog was around before then” Transcript of MP Rory Stewart’s hedgehog defense in Parliament in 2017. Of all the possible Tory MPs possible to be the next…

Who Cares? Really? I Want to Know…

Rockstars do it all the time. If they don’t, it tarnishes their reputations. Movie Stars would be deadly dull if they didn’t. Sports dudes also do it, unless they are shooting ‘roids, then maybe they can’t. We live in a culture saturated with it,…