There is a Science Man notion, that has been around for about a hundred years or so, and that is known as Dollo's law, for the fellow who propounded it—Louis Dollo, a Belgian miner, who liked to build dinosaurs. And Dollo's law, it is this: "evolution is not reversible."
From 60 Minutes' Morley Safer dies at 84
Morley Safer, the CBS newsman who changed war reporting forever when he showed U.S. Marines burning the huts of Vietnamese villagers and went on to become the iconic 60 Minutes correspondent whose stylish stories on America's most-watched news program made him one of television's most enduring stars, died today in Manhattan. He was 84.
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This is a video by Canadian band, The Tragically Hip, entitled New Orleans is Sinking. The song and video were done in 1989. It was announced today that the band's frontman, Gord Downie, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. He is only 52 years old.
You may say "Sirius...what does this sad story have to do with the election and Bernie in particular?"
Everything. Or maybe nothing at all.
I believe we should write a lot about all of Bernie's DNC picks, as I want to know more about all of them.
Here's something from Cornel West to give a taste of his brilliance. I, for one, am very interested in what he will say at the Convention. I can learn a lot from him, and from the other choices Bernie made. I don't even want to mention the other names because I'll get sidetracked in awe over them.
Thank you Hillary. Now Bernie and Trump are free to debate and let the anti-establishment pick a candidate.
Thanks, again.
Not from me, this time, though. This is my friend "Whitey", and his composition "Can of Cream Corn"...only playable by him, because he is the only banjo player that plays the way he does. He invented a whole new style. I played opposite him in a jam a couple weeks ago, and was just amazed watching him play (my banjo).
Today at Truth-out.org Dahr Jamail chronicles the continuing degradation of the ecosystem which nurtured humankind from primate to homo sapiens. The title, "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Has Passed the Point of No Return," says it all. The impacts from ocean acidification and oxygen depletion, coral bleaching and disappearing Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets as well as glacial melting occurring at unanticipated rates far ahead of predictions.
"I am going to ask my husband, who has a great track record in creating jobs, putting people to work, revitalizing communities, to be in an advisory role working with me, working with our cabinet, to try to figure out what we can do," Clinton said on NBC's "Meet the Press.
Last month American custom agents prevented entry into the country by the founder of the Syrian humanitarian group, White Helmets. He was set to receive a humanitarian award from InterAction, an NGO based in Washington, DC.
However, he had a Muslim name.
We've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. And when it does, will we even know for sure that the shoe is dropping?
Because this looks like a shoe dropping right now--
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/terry-mcauliffe-fbi-doj-federal-i...
