Faded glory

One sure sign of the waning of summer is the waning of the romantic ardor, not to mention feather supply, of Woodstock, our male peacock. In a week or so, he's gone from this...

To this. Sic transit gloria mundi.

There seems to be a lot of that (the whole faded glory thing) going round these days.

AUSTERITY is over-rated in times like these.

CORPORATE PERSONHOOD CAN BE FUN. Here's an amusing take on the whole corporations are people thing.

SOMETHING ELSE FOR WEST VIRGINIA'S RULING CLASS TO DENY. To wit, the whole Greenland ice melting thing.

MIXED REACTIONS. Ken Ward's Coal Tattoo blog does a great job of weighing responses to CNN's recent feature on mountaintop removal mining.

GOAT ROPE ADVISORY LEVEL: ELEVATED