With winds gusting

                                         
                                       
through Sturdy Bush at noon, a butterfly that looked 
like a Monarch but seemed too small and so may have   
been a Viceroy was moving from one dandelion patch
to another.  Also caught a glimpse of a bee on this
now cloudy warm day.       
                                                      
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Have been following Bank of America this week.  A
slew of controversy surrounds its solvency and in  
particular its acquistion of Merrill Lynch.  BAC  
stock dropped to $7 briefly--I think it was early  
on Tuesday--but mostly has been between $8 and $9.  
                                                   
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Ron Silliman placed a challenging post up yesterday
which I may link to so I don't have to keep visiting  
it.  Henry Gould's comments are becoming more 
cogent, a fact that pleases me since I agree with     
most of his conclusions.                                          
                                                       
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Speaking of conclusions, Coversations With Myself   
has entered the contest for the title of my collected   
works.  Two others are Idiothead and Your Mother's
Dead, and She's Glad.                                  
                                                       
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PM 3:30 -- Mark Wallace's wallacethinksagain.blogspot.com  
is another site I've been visiting a lot of late.  Many 
of the discussions re American Hybrid radiate from there
and Mark nearly always states his thoughts in interesting
ways.                                                      
                                                          
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Reminder: If you don't have a link to a site I mention,
check to see if I do.                                 
                                                          
                                                       
                                                        
                                                     
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