TRUE CONFESSION
I don’t know how many of you have noticed, but I’m acutely aware that, for the past couple of weeks, Doc40 has been doing very little but post and link stuff grabbed out of cyberspace that intrigued and irritated, and I’ve been putting down precious few original words. The reason is not that I have nothing to say. Far from it. Right now I am heads down, desperate to finish my novel Conflagration (the sequel to Kindling) plus I seem to have re-upped with LA CityBeat. (Heads up Thursday for a nuclear rant on North Korea.) This and other exercises in keeping the ever present pack of wolves from the door, plus all the private shocks that flessssh (precious) is heir to have all cut into blogging time. But what the hell? If you got a problem with the way things are, there’s always the massively implausible comments board.

And anyway, the stuff from cyberspace is so much fun, as in this from MSNBC...
A German zoo has scrapped plans to break up homosexual penguin couples following protests from gay rights groups. The Bremerhaven Zoo had flown in four female Humboldt penguins in an attempt to encourage three couples discovered to be all male to reproduce... but following protests from gay rights groups, director Heike Kueck has said that the zoo is abandoning the plan. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1284769.html
Aren’t you glad that we have Red State moral guardians to stop this kind of thing happening here?

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