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...nice to mess with Mother Nature - especially in Austin, Texas, where there is a record of an actual citywide tree hug taking place in 1989. So when five dozen birds fell from the sky earlier this month talk shows and chatrooms were ablaze with theories and outrage over what killed Austin's grackles...
...morning on Jan. 8, three Austin policemen on patrol downtown found the dead birds feet up on Congress Avenue, the city's busy main boulevard. With ever-present concerns about bird flu and terrorism, HAZMAT teams, the fire and police departments, the county health department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Texas National Guard's rapid response team and even the FBI were quickly on scene as the city closed off downtown...
...outfit's as-of-yet small number of offerings are lively. "Embrace the Suck" by Col. Austin Bay is a pocket guide to "milspeak" (military slang) in Iraq. "Everything Could Explode at Any Moment" consists of dispatches from the Lebanese-Israeli front by Michael Totten. And as for those more interested in the culinary wars, TNP offers "Best Recipes from the Jewish Blogosphere" by Judith Weiss...
...guessing I'm not the only reader who saw that the Person of the Year was "You" and said, "Ewww." It's sad that a once important cultural touchstone has devolved into the equivalent of everyone-gets-a-trophy day at summer camp. Matthew Obernauer Austin, Texas...
...Austin, Texas...