Two bits from the ongoing WaPo coverage of the Baltimore bridge collapse: 1. Two people have been rescued from the water, one in serious condition, the other uninjured. There are almost certainly oth… (View Post)

Off topic: Today, I learned from Wikipedia, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Genocide_Remembrance_Day Whether what happened in 1971 should be called a "genocide" depends on the d… (View Post)

Thanks, Mike, and best wishes from Kirkland, Washington. (View Post)

DavidL has gone off to work, but perhaps he will see this, anyway: From the blurb on the back of the latest edition of… (View Post)

Speaking of California, at one time (and perhaps still) there was a firm in the state that would undertake to find an endangered species for you -- if you wanted to block development in your area. (View Post)