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From The New York Times: May 20, 2008 Who Is the Walrus? By NATALIE ANGIER ... Just as we were entering the walrus house at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., however, Dr. Schusterman tossed out a bit of advice. “The first thing the walruses will do when they come over is start pushing at you, pressing their heads right into your stomach,” he said. “Don’t let them get ...

I adore Natalie Angier. Well, OK, "adore" is rather strong, but everything I've read of hers, I really like. She wrote the article I posted about "Noble Eagles, Nasty Pigeons and Biased Humans" as well. Also, a great book entitled "Canon, A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science" and "Woman, An Intimate Geography". She is witty and very funny, and a Pulitzer Prize winner. ...

QUOTE(Albatross @ May 20 2008, 17:25) roll toward me like a gelatinous, mustachioed boulder oh the yummy prose! QUOTE(REveritt @ May 20 2008, 19:38) Another (often overlooked) is the Wall Street Journal . Except for the Op-Eds, which regularly serve unthinkable BS, e.g. the most hilarious of climate science denial. Reason enough to overlook and forget the WSJ - don't ...

QUOTE(Florifulgurator @ May 21 2008, 10:58) QUOTE(Albatross @ May 20 2008, 17:25) roll toward me like a gelatinous, mustachioed boulder oh the yummy prose! QUOTE(REveritt @ May 20 2008, 19:38) Another (often overlooked) is the Wall Street Journal . Except for the Op-Eds, which regularly serve unthinkable BS, e.g. the most hilarious of climate science denial. ...

QUOTE(Jonr @ May 21 2008, 11:16) ... WSJ is also top-heavy in the Op-Eds with supply siders, a strange group of economists that act much like the "fuzzy-headed liberals in those group think tanks," only in reverse logic. Supply-siders are the priestly sycophants serving the captains of industry and their political stooges. They remind me of the ancient fakers who read the animal ...