Dowd on Obama

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/opinion/22dowd.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

She is more fun when she is beating up on the Clintons.

Hot GOP Chicks

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/state-gop-our-chicks-are-hot-dems-are-fugly-video-sexist

Mother Jones fails to see the humor.

Excellent shirt

Thanks to Mark for sending me this picture.

Ionia Sandstone Quarry

About one mile east of Quarry Road along the old rail bed, in heavily wooded terrain, lies the Ionia Variegated Sandstone Quarry. The sandstone, once used widely as a building material has most recently been harvested for landscaping material. The quarry has been closed for many years however, with reflections from the crystal clear springs dancing on the sandstone, this is one of the most beautiful sights to behold in Ionia County.

http://www.ioniachamber.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47:play-in-ionia&catid=34:visit-ionia&Itemid=68

Michigan zircons

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59998/title/Before_the_Mississippi%2C_minerals_show_ancient_rivers_flowed_west

Fascinating.

I am particularly interested in the quarries in Central Michigan.

Food Blog

http://randomthoughtsaboutfood.blogspot.com/

In the beginning, global warming

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/59928/title/Hazy_antidote_to_a_faint_young_sun

Global warming prevented the early earth from freezing?