Saturday in the Office

What the hell, right? Why am I at work today? Oh, right, I remember, Saturday program. People learning to identify wildlife tracks in the snowy landscape. Trackers tell us that when you see an animal in the wild, you've already ruined its behavior patterns. If you see it, it has already seen you and is making diversionary moves. Guaranteed. But tracks, the remnants of the animal's movement when no humans were lurking, reveal a lot about animal behavior. We've got 60 people out in Walden Woods today looking for these signs, recording them, adding them to our own animal monitoring database. They came this morning, sat politely for an hour as we briefed them on the practice of tracking, and now they are all in the field. It's a joy to introduce people to nature. They always learn something new. Lots of kids here to day, too.

More death and destruction in Iraq, car bombs, a judge was executed. Bush and his cronies are so incredibly short-sighted that they walked right into this horrible trap. Bin Laden knew Bush's character and played it to the hilt. Now death and destruction are a daily thing in our lives in America and a daily thing in their lives in Iraq, Americans and Iraqis now locked into a sick fate. It's immoral. It must stop. I can't keep silent about this for a single day.