HuffPo is not made for people who like their news straight. As the situation in Iraq got boggy, the economy soured and the Bush Administration's popularity face-planted, folks wanted a place to vent.

The Philippines melds birds of Malaysia and Indoasia, southeast Asia, China, Korea and Japan — 572 species in all.

This opportunity I snatched at eagerly, there being nothing else on in Finland at the time apart from a hotel video of The Lavender Hill Mob apparently dubbed by tree frogs with no adenoids, and was thus Saabed across several hoursworth of englaciated ruts to a vast gelid tract, equidistant from Pokka and Lokka, on which grew a million-odd trees.

What's in a name? Hedge, Fedge, Living Fencerow, Fredge ... […] A tentative truce between British and American agricultural geographers over terminology was brokered when a young British landscape designer trained at Oxford tried to popularize the term fedge in her book High-Impact, Low-Carbon Gardening, which was simultaneously released on both sides of the pond. And yet the term has not gained much currency, so I will propose another, hopefully more memorable one. I suggest that we rally behind another syllogism, the fredge, which takes its f and r from fence and row, and the rest of its letters from hedge and edge.