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An ode to the Butterfield Blues Band
While I had other musical favorites in my youth, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band earned their recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame – in addition to its talent pool – its […]
Month: May 2015
Featured Posts
The passing of Beau Biden
Last night, Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, died of the brain cancer he had been battling since 2013. This is Beau Biden at the DNC in 2008, introducing his Dad: (grab kleenexes) […]
Community
Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: May 31st through June 6th
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
Editors' Choice
Good Government: The EPA Protects Our Drinking Water
Clean water rules released on Wednesday will give the EPA more power to protect our drinking water: The Waters of the United States rule, developed by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, offers […]
From the White House
Weekly Address: President Obama – Pass the USA Freedom Act
The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President addressed […]
Our World in Images
Ice Age Floods, Erratics, and the Atom Bomb on the Columbia Plateau
The Columbia River flowing through carved out basalt cliffs at Vantage Washington This diary describes an Ice Age Floods Institute field trip that I took in September last year that explored some of the […]
Featured Posts
Ice Age Floods, The Columbia Plateau, and Terroir
Some of the largest cataclysmic geologic events on earth occurred in what is now the Pacific North West. About 11 million years of volcanic flow activity, ending about 6 million years ago, created the Columbia […]
News and Opinion
Is Scott Walker Intimidated?
Scott Walker, brave bully governor of Wisconsin, destroyer of little old schoolteachers’ pensions and incarcerater of protest singers, appears to be intimidated by the money needed to be competitive in an important electoral college state: […]
Community
Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: May 24th through May 30th
Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania […]
Site Administration
The Moose has Landed
On May 3, 2015, the motleymoose.net web site was created to become the new home of the Motley Moose and those who gather at the moose pond in Moosylvania. The change was necessary due to […]