Yet another speech.
Bush gave what some analysists call one of the most important speech in his presidency. With his job approval rating hovering around 40%, the hurricane aftermath, the Iraq war, high gas prices, ... it is no wonder.
Since I am too lazy to summarize the speech and give you my thoughts I will refer you to what others have to say.
John Cole summarizes it so:
Howdy folks. Bush here.
A hurricane came.
It was big.
Killed lots of people.
Our response was not what we wanted.
But we will rebuild.
Think permanent deficits.
Night.
For a bit more analysis you can turn to Billmon over at the Whiskey Bar. In fact, I think this is the one blog that everyone ought to check out on a daily basis (right after mine, of course).
Some of you may ask: What's the point of linking to other Blogs, if I draw 3 readers a day while they draw about 3 million? Well, I don't know. I guess it falls into the category that blogging on this 'level' is not so much for the reader of the blog as it is for the blogger himself.
posted by hrun @ 8:28 AM
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On a different subject matter I have posted in the comments over at Kav's If you would like to address the question. He has deferred to your greater knowledge.
ebird, I am currently too busy to give any in depth answer (prepping for an interview). But I will try to post something on it later.
Just real quick: One school of thought is that elaborate plumage, mating dances, mating displays, ... are mainly a statement of "look how fit I am, I can expend all this energy on doing something completely useless and still survive" or "even with these huge ten feet feathers I can still outlast all of the predators around me".
good luck with the interview
By the way did I recall you saying that you were transitioning from PhD to post-doc?
If so congratulations on attaining your PhD.
Thanks Kav, you recall correctly. I used the strategy of just hanging out at the same place for long enough until they had to give me a Ph.D. just to get rid of me.
In any case, right now I am supposed to be reading papers to prep for tomorrow, but instead I'm checking up on the blog and watching the trainwreck of the Cowboys playing the Redskins.
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