Books to read

The latest, and sometimes the best, explication of the geo-poltical aspects of global weather-change, and how it change things: Cleo Paskal's book has its excellent moments.
The section on the Arctic, especially related to Canadian concerns and strategy (or lack thereof) pp. 75-86 is especially distressing reading.
Do it.

An Irish curse...

Got this one via LAWDOG:

"May the cat eat you, and the devil eat the cat."

OHO - I like it!

Ides of March

Hah. Well, Caesar is dead; so is "Little Caesar". And guess what...

Spring must be here.

Thsi morning, I saw a motorcycle with a sidecar at Timmy's.
And down by the Bay, the blackbirds were buzzing and the geese were honking.
In fact, I saw 5 flights of geese myself in a little over 30 minutes. Two of these flights were at least 1/2 mile in length (judging from an estimate of the distance and the angle subtended). I hesitate to guess how many birds that represents, but it's a few. They were all headed ENE, generally following the North shore of Lake Ontario, and headed toward the Ottawa Valley, I presume.
I heard, but could not see, several other groups; too distant to tell how large, but if I heard them, they were BIG.

What does this portend?

Well, for starters, Bismuth shot and a goose-gun. Need to practice feeding the family.