Good news, bad news, and beautiful things...
Animals
Mixed wildlife photo essay, with especially adorable zoom-focus on a small woodpecker.
British moths.
Education
This is sad. It's not that "Sesame Street" (and "The Muppet Show," in spite of Kermit and Miss Piggy) haven't always been "gay as grigs." They have. The proportion of male to female characters was found in nature only in studies of homosexual populations or of violent criminals. Big Bird was obviously the sort of man who projects the "gay" stereotype at all times. Ernie and Bert acted out dramas that could take place among siblings but they never were clearly identified as brothers and, a few years ago, they had a wedding. And apparently the producers of the show don't learn; it gets worse. This summer the tots are not only hearing "Pride Month" sermons, but also missing out on the alphabet, counting, and English-Spanish translations that made "Sesame Street" a worthwhile show. Jim Henson and Joe Raposo weren't Moral Majority types but they had a sense of what's appropriate to share with four-year-olds. The people writing today's "Sesame Street" shows, well, have no sense.
Glyphosate Awareness
Well done, Tennessee!
Health
This is not news; it quantifies something most of us had read/heard before.
Marketing
News flash--Pris agrees with Bernie! (Scroll down; this is the "news briefs column" and Bernie Sanders speaks for me in the second brief.)
(Further down, a brief about CDC employees in Atlanta walking out to protest mass dismissals in their agency...Cry me a river, Useless Ones, and I hope you were told to clean out your desks when you came back. You lot flogged the clot-shots and ignored glyphosate while Americans suffered and died for four years. That should be enough.)
People Who Can't Be Helped
Never mind the UN, the young bleeding hearts sailing with celebrity Greta Thunberg, or any Humanist types in Israel. Hamas are so far gone they're killing fellow Muslims trying to bring them food...so they say. I'm not sure I believe this, but it does confirm my belief that rapists by their own choice forfeit their membership in humankind.
Prophecy
Why, seriously, even if you inherit a piece of real estate you never even liked to visit, like a worked-out oil field, you should sell it only to someone you have good reasons to trust. I'm NOT saying that that rules out all people of Chinese descent, or any other ethnic type. But it should rule out people who still maintain citizenship in a foreign country.
Zazzle
I said I'd add designs to the Manners Message collection...here is "That's "Sir" to You."
I'm delighted to report that people have actually bought a few "Save the Butterflies" designs. If they keep on like this I might fill out the State postcards collection after all.
I'm disappointed to report that Zazzle has abandoned its lovely idea of paying people MORE for discovering and promoting other people's designs than for promoting our own. I still get a few pennies for recommending someone else's products to your attention, but not as many as for recommending the same products with my designs on them. Bah!
You have a lot of interesting topics going on! Thanks for stopping by today. We have nine cats we rescued and we care for 6 ferals outside.
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