The crown jewel of the Cascades

Boneconducted is now my favorite word of the week.

Delicatessen Now: "love the smell of condiments in the morning...it smells like victory."

My Dinner with Andre the Giant

Samwise Gamgee bears the ring for a while and gives it back to Frodo without having to lose a finger in the bargain. A most excellent Hobbit, Samwise. As for their Hobbit neighbors who live in blissful willful ignorance of the world while other creatures safeguard The Shire at great cost...

"We've always been at war with Venezuela" -- Ghost of Orwell.

I would think someone seeking such a conversation would be available whenever it was most convenient for the would-be mentor.

When you remember how much people in the past suffered for justice without ever surrendering hope, despair feels like an indulgence of privilege that insults their memory.

Fear the 🐸!

Curiously, no S or P in the logo, as in Seattle Pilots, the team that was relocated to Milwaukee in 1970 and renamed the Brewers. There's a chance the current Seattle Mariners will play the former Seattle Pilots in the World Series (unless LA and/or Toronto object).

Fear the 🐸!

If I remember it right, the key is in the timing...the cuckoo eggs get slipped into the nest just before they're ready to hatch, so they're not around long enough to learn the password.

Here's the one I was thinking of about increased teaching effort: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Superb Fairy Wrens teach their young a password when they're still in the egg that hatchlings must give to prove they're not a cuckoo. That teaching intensifies if there are a lot of warning calls that cuckoos are around (can't cite the research off the top of my head).

To be clear, I was quoting this article, and I agree: prospect.org/politics/202...