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1. 28 minutes ago on Loose Parts

   How did the cartoon itself make it past the censors?

2. about 9 hours ago on Off the Mark

   Free alarm clock!

3. about 9 hours ago on Ted Rall

   It is a fungus on a tree trunk. It was raining rust-colored spores the day I took the picture.

   Why this picture? I suppose because it’s weird.

4. about 18 hours ago on Ted Rall

   No, because I want to encourage native bees. I’m concerned about the impact of a large number of European honeybees on native bees.

5. about 19 hours ago on Ted Rall

   There must be, because I’m getting oranges, but I don’t see them unless I stop and watch; then I might see one or two.

6. about 20 hours ago on Jen Sorensen

   I wish those pros worked in my neighborhood. Seems to me they compete to see who can have the loudest tool.

7. about 20 hours ago on Ted Rall

   Tut tut. Now, that’s just twisting the knife. ;^)

8. about 20 hours ago on Ted Rall

   I live in northeast Florida. I have numerous flowering trees (elderberry, cherry laurel, a dogwood, as well as non-natives like a few orange trees and the curse of camphor trees, plus two possibly-native soapberry trees. I have maintained some ironweed and Joe-Pye weed. I have allowed Bidens alba in various places, and there are a few of the typical nursery flowers (non-native, of course). I have tried to grow some other native wildflowers with not much success. In my decades here, I have seen a flock of sulfurs, plenty of Gulf fritillaries, an explosion of … miner? .. plasterer? .. bees, I have seen bees in large numbers, I have seen numerous species of bees. Now? Almost nothing. I used to see large flocks of cedar waxwings go after the mulberries (another flowering tree). I think I saw two cedar waxwings a month ago, the first I’ve seen in years. I’m still happy to see what birds show up to the feeders, but it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a pileated woodpecker. No surprise what with the eagerness with which trees are felled.

   I have never used pesticides or herbicides, but that’s not that helpful when so many of my neighbors do.

9. 1 day ago on Ted Rall

   My yard is filled with trees, bushes, flowers (which my neighbors hate), but I see hardly any bees or butterflies. Why? Because I live in a neighborhood where people maintain lawns. Sterile, poisoned, fertilized and overwatered grass. Many of the bushes and even trees in the neighborhood are not native. And that’s just on a local level.

   Like Ted says, individual action isn’t enough.

10. 1 day ago on Ted Rall

    I was even happier to “like” this when I read the idiotic reply.