The firefighters’ gators were almost certainly unrelated to one that drowned Lane Graves, because it’s hard for a gator to cross the roadways. Also, why would you go chasing kids when you’re being fed by hand?

Damn right. This is the kind of person who thinks she’s mediating some deep conversation between the earth and humanity with her cat-scratch and so thinks she’s just misunderstood. (Meaning she won’t stop.)

She should be banned from public lands for life.

This might surprise you, but not everyone would. I definitely have no interest in that lifestyle and I don't think I'd be a happier person just because I had millions of dollars. I kind of like just being an average person doing average things.

Honestly, the US didn’t deserve the Obamas. The crap we put them through was shameless, and they handled it with such poise and grace. Also, yay, National Parks!

Serving up some Hyacinth Bucket realness.

Now give me a fire ax and I’ll show you how much damage can be done.

He didn’t make music that typically prized technically good singing but I think his stuff on the MTV live album shows he was a pretty talented singer underneath all the screaming.

If you define vocal prowess solely as vocal range, then no pop or rock singer could measure up to classical opera singers. Many people, myself included, would not agree.

The Oregon/Washington Columbia Gorge is also pretty magnificent.

I would recommend the Oregon coast so hard, I would seriously consider going on a road trip with commenters here so I can drive it.

Gotcha covered (Crater Lake, OR)

No love for the Pacific Northwest?

You’re dead wrong about Idaho.

Chris Isaak

Asteroid Strike, 2016!

People should read the book A World Without Us. It's about what would happen if there were no more humans on earth and I feel it doesn't get the shout out it deserves since it really was one of the first thought experiments investigating this what-if scenario.