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Archive for November, 2010
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The Vanishing American
Posted on November 29, 2010 | 6 CommentsThe Vanishing American is a 1924 film and book by Zane Grey about the cruel and inevitable clash of conflicting cultures. History, as portrayed in this film, has been a... -
The Oven Ate My Turkey
Posted on November 24, 2010 | No Commentsreprint from 2008 Is your Turkey being held hostage by your oven? The oven door won’t open? Is your oven locked shut with your Turkey inside? Have you bent the... -
Reconstructing Wiston
Posted on November 23, 2010 | 3 CommentsIn my last post, I explained how one might find “virtual immortality” by having 99.9% of their genes present within one’s offspring. If these offspring are your children which each... -
Virtual Immortality
Posted on November 22, 2010 | 6 CommentsIn a lecture titled Some Practical Problems of Immortality, game developer Ernest Adams tackles the issues of dealing with the notions of immortality we get from fiction. He designates “Virtual... -
Brand-New Old-Time Farm Shepherd Puppies
Posted on November 18, 2010 | 8 CommentsIn researching Border Collie history and in postulating what might happen in the Border Collie future, it’s informative to look at the rise and fall of the Old Time Farm... -
The Collie Walk
Posted on November 18, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe “Collie Walk” is one of those things you take for granted as a Border Collie owner, but it’s always a big hit at the dog park. The other owners... -
Inbred Mistakes V
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 32 CommentsShifting gears from an unrepentant pro-inbreeding propagandist back to fact-checking an otherwise excellent post, I’d like to take my editor’s pen to Christie Keith’s post at Pet Connection called It’s the DNA,... -
![And now for the final fact-check of Carol Gravestock’s often shoddy rationalization of inbreeding at Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs: We might also say that a breeder utilizing this method [line breeding] has...](http://www.astraean.com/borderwars/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/inbred_4_crop-115x115.jpg "Inbred Mistakes IV")
Inbred Mistakes IV
Posted on November 16, 2010 | 29 CommentsAnd now for the final fact-check of Carol Gravestock’s often shoddy rationalization of inbreeding at Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs: We might also say that a breeder utilizing this method [line breeding] has... -
Inbred Mistakes III
Posted on November 15, 2010 | 22 CommentsContinuing the analysis of the pro-inbreeding essay over on the Absolut Bullmarket French Bulldogs site: Many people believe that in breeding itself creates genetic disease. This is incorrect. Again with... -
Inbred Mistakes II
Posted on November 13, 2010 | 19 CommentsYou know you’re in trouble when the title of the apologia is “The Myth of Canine Incest” and the first sentence of the analysis puts ‘dangers’ in quotes. Such is...
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