It’s a fantastic place to roam around, I love it.

In June, I was In Lyndhurst, in the New Forest (UK). There was odd Alice in Wonderlandish items- a White Rabbit pub, statues...and then at St Michael and all Angels church, Alice Liddell’s grave, the little girl -and presumably much older and married woman- Lewis Carroll based Alice on. Very cool, and unexpected.

I just can’t even figure out where to place everybody in the GOP on the reality continum. Huckabee used to be like somebody’s Grandpa nattering on to you in the line for Haunted House at Disneyland. You know, where he seems nice-ish, but then you realize he’s telling you no one should get on the ride, cause the Lord.…

The sleeve length on that coat is a relic from the 1950’s, when huge chunky glass stones set in gold plate was a thing. (Bracelet length, they called it). Also to be worn with thin longer gloves- so you could wear the bracelets over the gloves, naturally.) Hey, it looked great on Grace Kelly

Hummers. And I mean the idiot cars, people.

Great article. I love that serial rapists are getting picked up, and backlogs tested. My prediction? Many, many rapists will be outed as serial rapists. They got away with it for years. Let them go to jail for 178 year sentences (like in your link).

I like it when someone’s ideas and experiences can stretch my mind. Thanks for the give and take.

Remember Pimp My Ride? They’d find a poor person with car problems...and make it run, but modify it in a horrible, non functional way. “We heard you like fish and chips, so we put an 80 gallon aquarium in the back seat!”

In the early 1900’s the notion of anthropomorphizing - ascribing human emotions to animals as a bad, unscientific thing -gained a lot of traction. Science! But we have seen a lot of work in animal cognition, much of it focused on the great apes, corvids, dolphins, et al. They do think, they do have…

It does look like Towan might be the same orangutan, though...he is, at 46 or 47, the oldest male captive orang in North America. Thanks for the picture.

My visit in Woodland when I saw the orangutang male interacting was in 1973. The quarters were very cramped then, I understand this to be an improvement.

Hillary Clinton is often viewed as someone who exists only as an adjunct to her husband. She’s a lawyer- as a 27 year old she was an attorney on the Watergate prosecution staff. So her Washington career is actually older than Bill’s. Congressional record? Lots of bills supporting kids, vets, women. Foreign policy…

Yes to this. Bernie may indeed taking the high road and not disparaging Clinton, but I can’t say the same for some of his followers.

Old frat boy.

He was so great in Boondock Saints.

I like Patrick Dempsey- although this reminds me of him in Sweet Home Alabama, where we were supposed to believe Reese Witherspoon would prefer Josh Lucas to Dempsey. That required more suspension of disbelief than I could muster. (Sort of like Indecent Proposal, where Demi Moore is supposed to be all broken up over…

The animals that had a lot of human contact at one time -it seems like they still seek out human contact. Their perception of humans may have permanently changed. There was a Siberian tiger named Rajah at the same zoo, who had, at one time been someone’s pet -until he began to turn into an adult Siberian tiger. He was…

Me too. I know they put them in better areas- the enclosure above is 4 acres, they say. Yet there he is, at the glass.

Many years ago I was at the old zoo in Seattle. The large primate area was pretty cramped and terrible- there was a very bored orangutang male playing with a pile of sticks, and leaning against the window. He was leaning twigs against the glass in a pattern. When I leaned against the glass on the other side, he…

Yes-she did it to be mean without being mean directly. Oh, my cousin says you’re a tapeworm. Totally not me, though.