Here’s a tiny snippet from some footage I took through night-vision goggles on a beach in Tasmania last year:

These are fairy penguins coming ashore in pitch darkness on the neck of Bruny Island.  Hundreds of Mom and Dad penguins spend the whole day gathering food out at sea , then after nightfall minimize their exposure to predators by storming the beach Normandy-style to bring home the day’s haul for the young waiting in their nests.

This is absolutely fantastic to watch.

So here’s the biggest snip I can give you without totally crushing my bandwidth.

Over at A Tiny Revolution, Jon has not one but two good catches, the result of his being able (unlike most people who discuss politics) to read:

Turns out the CIA’s spokesman published a novel centered on the use of airplanes as terrorist missiles aimed at large public buildings, years in advance of the WTC attacks.

Also, it would be nice if any Bushies disparaging the "reality-based" were aware they were actually mirroring one of the fundamental worries of the intelligence community — about Stalinist Russia.

Enjoy.

Really has to include FSMism.

FSM heaven, in case you’re still a heathen, has both a stripper factory AND a beer volcano.

And lest we forget the purpose of national make-George-Bush-look-less-like-Nero Day, here’s the link for the Red Cross again.

Skippy.  Really strong batch of posts lately.  Whole page is good.

How could Laura Bush possibly not know the name of Hurricane Katrina?
The merest grip on reality only strengthens the terrorists
569   49.8%
She gets her information directly from Mike Brown at FEMA
315   27.6%
"Katrina" is just a Democratic slur; starting tomorrow, the real name is "Corrina"
186   16.3%
Never removed the earplugs from the day George played guitar
73   6.4%

Strangely, Bush’s singular inattention to the impending destruction of an entire American city has only knocked his poll numbers down a few points.

So what, exactly, would it take for Bush’s base to start rethinking things?  New poll at upper left.