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Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
Not necessarily. You've got part of it right, but that's not the whole picture. If the environment to which they are adapted does not change (for, say 3-4 billion years) you don't have to change to last. Those that adapt to environments that change quickly don't last, but yes, those which adapt quickly enough to keep up with change, do. And they become something else. If you're a bacterium, say, a methanotroph, all you need is a little methane and you're in business. I hope someone is checking the big gas leak site near the San Fernando Valley for changes in methanotroph population changes. It also helps if you can encyst yourself to wait a long, long time for another dose of methane, too. Maybe even long enough for a hit from an interplanetary object and go off to populate other planets . . .— February 17, 2016 10:58 p.m.
Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
The species that have lasted the longest are the smallest. And the most "accepting" of what they have. Remember the battleship curves from biology?— February 16, 2016 10:08 p.m.
Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
He does not appear to be a self-righteous, narcissistic, politically-correct type who wants CONTROL, Soviet-style, as far too many Democrats, particularly in academia, do.— February 16, 2016 7:23 a.m.
Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
I think the election is the Democrats' to lose. But if the politically correct left continues to pursue "zero-tolerance," they probably will. I do not consider Sanders "far" left, despite his foolish self-characterization as a socialist. Hilary's crowd, however, is festooned with loony "liberals."— February 15, 2016 9:44 p.m.
Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
Yes you should, Don. We want you around for at least another twenty years. You come from good Scandahoovian stock, eh? For sure! As to Scalia, since his descendants are legion, they might make a good epidemiological study. One could perhaps tease out whether genetics or culture (too much pasta; not enough wine, or vice versa?).— February 14, 2016 9:39 p.m.
Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
I personally know of great modern and original composers who were rejected during the atonal inquisition. I remember hearing my first atonal "sym-phony" and half-sat up to free my considerable diaphram and booing as loudly as I could whilst the rest of the audience gave a standing ovation. I re-read my post, lest I erred in my statement, but yea, could find none. Perhaps it is the myopia of narcissism; wouldst thou point out to me where I implied that every interpreter of Bach would "improve" upon the original score and not go off into the weeds? Listen, for example, to John Williams' guitar and explain to me where he went wrong in his interpretation. And here I expected to be scalded for my remarks a la Scalia!— February 14, 2016 9:32 p.m.
Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
There are dumbbells enough to go around. I am almost as disgusted with the far left as I am the far right. Do you suppose that's why elections are close? Tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee?— February 14, 2016 9:19 p.m.
Utilities commission "violence" unacceptable
Well, you don't want a Pulitzer. I guess you'll have to settle for Virtue.— February 14, 2016 9:16 p.m.
Utilities commission "violence" unacceptable
By the contrast shall we know thee.— February 14, 2016 9:14 p.m.
Local lawyers speak on Scalia's death
Social (i.e., cooperative) behavior is what made it possible for the weakling misfit, Homo (cocksure) sapiens to survive. Culture (competition) began displacing society about 15,000 years ago, causing a population boom. That will eventually turn out to be a "bust," leading to a bottleneck or extinction.— February 14, 2016 4:42 p.m.