Archive for the 'america' Category

At the Tea Party

An account of a the recent Tea Party Convention. Points out the rifts between the libertarian and evangelical components of the movement, which is overwhelmingly elderly, white and affluent.

"'You know, I phoned my husband last night. I told him that being here has made me realize that I am a *liberal* conservative.'"
 

Paging Mr. Darwin

I actually have heard of the "gyascutus" which "has legs of unequal length so that it can walk easily on hillsides" though I think it might go by other names.
 

Audubon’s Birds of America

Complete, browsable, searchable, online version of Birds of America.