I have only myself to blame

Well, now I've seen Tales from Earthsea.

Two Doomsdays

CHICAGO, May 5, 2011—Within the next five years, the United States is expected to experience a manufacturing renaissance as the wage gap with China shrinks and certain U.S. states become some of the cheapest locations for manufacturing in the developed world, according to a new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

If unchecked this could lead to a resurgence in American unions and the middle class (although I expect plans are in place to funnel additional income towards deserving billionaires and away from the undeserving underclasses).

Peak Child has been reached.

This is mainly doomy only if you assume birth rate trends are not reversable but they are not the entire planet seems likely to head into subreplacement levels that are not sustainable in the long run. I eager await the mirror images of The Population Bomb

One bold mouse

Hiding behind the cat litter box. Agile enough to escape when I exposed it too, despite the presence of a cat.

Oh, yeah: Bones: The Hole in the Heart

Spoilers
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Waterloo's objectively pro-bicycle plans: will the living envy the dead?

WATERLOO — This city’s new groundbreaking transportation master plan gives pedestrians and cyclists the same importance as cars when streets are being built or reconstructed.

As pointed out in racs

Hobbes and Bacon.

Archosaurs versus the noble synapsid

I am putting this behind a cut because it involves a cat fight and I know some people would prefer a warning.

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