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Joe Plum posted about the rare mutation of a pure Yellow Cardinal that has been sighted in Alabama ( Imagine the late Keith Jackson talking about "the yellow Cardinal of ALABAMA"!).
Auburn University professor Geoffrey Hill says that the otherwise normal bird simply carries a genetic mutation that has changed the normally red feathers of the male Cardinal into the far rarer yellow.
How rare? Literally over one in a million according to Hill, who says in 40 years of birdwatching that he has never seen a yellow Cardinal in the wild and that in a given year that there could be one or two yellow Cardinals in the country!
Christine over at Look Along The Way, where she writes about her traveling stops with her husband,
writes about her trip to the Truman and Eisenhower Presidential Libraries here.
It's a very interesting look at what's offered at both libraries (I've written before about wanting to combine a baseball trip with these two and other libraries some year) and with Christine's blog has just started, I'm sure more of her posts will appear here as part of the inbox in the future!
National Review is a longtime conservative website and Richard Brookhiser has long been a pundit and writer on the right side of the batters' box.
I'm known as a moderate, so I'm only occasionally in agreement with the Review, but Brookhiser writes about the late William F.Buckley and his major voice in the conservative movement and how Buckley would have never been ( and therefore conservatism ) been on the side of Trump and his maneuverings.
Brookshiser makes the argument that true conservatives might be seeing the end of the movement thanks to Trump and the Republican party that has so willing sold out to him for a short-term victory.
It's an article worth reading, no matter what your political views are.
Watergate will always be the political scandal that all other scandals are measured again, which is why the addendum "Gate" is slapped on the end of them as they are reported about in the media.
Politico posted an excerpt from Joseph Rodota's upcoming book about the Watergate complex and how can you write about the history of the Watergate complex without writing about the Watergate scandal?
What was interesting was how the Democratic National Committee found its way to Watergate and how they stayed there despite being in financial difficulties.
I won't spoil it for you, but I enjoyed the final paragraph where you think about what the break-in scandal could have been named had the DNC been located elsewhere!
McDonald's is removing cheeseburgers from Happy Meals in order to reduce calories as Fox News reports.
You can still have cheese on your child's Happy Meal burger if you wish, but customers will have to special order it.
And the small fries order? Downsized to a smaller "child-size".
I guess the eight fries in the small was just too many calories for the child to handle.
Here are my thoughts on that- We all need to eat healthily, I do (and I'm trying to do reasonably well), but if you are eating at McDonald's, to begin with, you aren't eating that great to start with and a piece of cheese being left off isn't suddenly going to make a difference in your health.
To paraphrase a quote- "let McDonald's be McDonald's" and enjoy the cheese or even better, go somewhere else and eat a better burger with plenty of cheese!!
Finally, sad to hear of the passing of Nanette Fabray at the age of 97.
Fabray was one of the early stars of television on the Sid Caesar Hour, winning two Emmy awards before being forced off the show due to a misunderstanding that neither Fabray nor Caesar knew about for years.
The multi-talented Fabray was a dancer and Broadway star as well, winning a Tony award in 1949.
Fabray was better known to me as a child for several guest-starring roles in television, being a staple on game shows, and for being the aunt of Shelley Fabares, who she would portray her mother on the television show "Coach".
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