Day May 14, 2006

The Times UK gets it right

Bush posts troops at Mexican border to appease Right 36,000 troops on the border? Bush says ‘temporary.” Yeah, right. My take: Bush and Rove don’t want an agreement on immigration rights until at least after the election (if at all.)…

Joshua Tree National Park

Sue and I spent the weekend camping in Joshua Tree National Park with friends. JTree is home to massive rock formations, sometimes hundreds of feet tall, unlike any place else. It also contains two desert systems, the Colorado Desert and…

Don’t touch. Seriously

\ This is Datura. Blooms at night. Highly psychoactive, but weird and unpredictable. Native-Americans used it to induce hallucinations. But they knew precisely how to prepare and use it. You probably don’t. Thus, if you take it (and touching the…