KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life

Grade 1 / Animal Science

In a honeybee hive, which bees take care of the larvae and collect nectar from flowers?
a) queen bees
b) worker bees
c) drone bees


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As of this writing, all of my books (that I'm keeping, anyhow -- I'm getting rid of a bunch, which are still upstairs) have been moved down to the second floor and many of them have been shelved -- basically, all the ones that are going in my office are shelved. The mass-markets have been shelved from A-L, with M-Z to go onto the three bookcases that will go in the living room (one's there, one has to be moved, one has to be assembled). The larger books (hardcovers, trades) are all shelved and all fit on the bookcases in my office. I am well pleased.

The move is coming along, but we're not going to get it all done this weekend (terri_osborne took tomorrow off work). I think, however, we can get everything down here, thrown out, or in the garage by the end of next weekend......

Grade 4 / Grammar

What punctuation is used at the end of an interrogative sentence?


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Accomplished and wonderful mystery novelist Tony Hillerman has died at the age of 83 of pulmonary failure.

Rest in peace, good sir -- you've more than earned it.

The good and noble steve_roby has reviewed Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House at his Starfleet Library blog.

Money quote:

If anyone's resisted buying it because they don't like the usual Klingon clichés, they're missing the point of this series completely. This is really good stuff, fun and thoughtful. So buy it already. I want more.

Senator John McCain spoke at a rally today in Ohio. I caught bits of it while moving things (terri_osborne had MSNBC on the TV in the living room) and one of the criticisms he has of Senator Barack Obama is that he wants to "concede in Iraq." What a lovely euphemism! Makes it sound bad, doesn't it? And then he says that he won't bring the troops home until he can do it "with honor," whatever the fuck that means.

Actually, I know what it means: we need more dead soldiers. Better that more soldiers die than we actually concede anything. I'm not sure how anything could possibly be done "with honor" in Iraq at this point, and it's pretty fucking pathetic that someone who served in the quagmire of Vietnam can think that. But then, for all that Senator McCain's service is lauded, he was legacied into Annapolis and managed to keep his wings even though he crashed four planes, because Daddy and Grandpappy were big-shot admirals. He wasn't exactly a typical soldier. Maybe he thinks there really is honor in dying pointlessly.

But what it boils down to is this: a vote for McCain-Palin is a vote for more dead soldiers. That may be harsh and unfair and going too far, but it's a lot more honest than Senator McCain's hogwash about conceding and coming home with honor....

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has been convicted of seven counts of making false statements on Senate ethics forms to hide hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and work on his Alaska home from an oilfield contractor at the center of a corruption investigation in the state. (Most of that is a direct quote from the linked article.)