Daily Archives: October 27, 2011

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Project Runway; The Finale

Well folks, it’s been a long journey, but we did it.  We hung in there through the end.  You’d think we’d get a prize of some sort, but I’m, assuming Bunim-Murray wouldn’t agree, so we’ll just have to settle for this.

So, welcome to the final PR Liveblog of the season, and just remember, Project Runway All-Stars starts soon!  Oh, and Project Accessory is on after tonight’s show, so there’s that.

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Endangered Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat Born in the Wild

The northern hairy-nosed wombat is one of the most endangered creatures in the world, ranked as critically endangered.  In the 1980s, the estimated number of surviving wombats was as low as 35 before a breeding and protection program gradually increased the population.  Still, wombats are slow breeders (each fertile female will have no more than 1 baby wombat, known as a joey, every 2-3 years) and by 2003, there was still only estimated to be 113 wombats, including 30 fertile females.  All these wombats were in a single location:  Epping Forest National Park in northern Queensland, Australia.  This concentration made the wombat vulnerable to being made extinct in a single stroke if a natural disaster hit the park, and one only needs to remember the gigantic floods which covered Queensland in January this year for a reminder of how easily that could occur.

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Catching Up With the GOP: The Dodger, The Diva, The Dreamer, and The Dingbat

So it’s been a whole ten minutes since GOP debate 17,460. Are we in withdrawal yet? No, not really, but we should catch up on what the Best and Brightest of the GOP has been doing in the last week or so. After all, until the President gets his wish, you know the one he told Jay Leno about two nights ago (see below), all we can do is watch and learn, folks…watch and learn.

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