The bear appears to be sick, not starving. The people who took the video appear to have been more concerned with propaganda than with getting help for it.

Without mining you’d be sending smoke signals or message runners, something people today forget or never understand. The solution is actually recycling. I’m all for letting people who want to to live hand to mouth without modern technology; idealists tried it in the 1960s-1970s and got a taste of reality.

I guess they have to make up for Hillary sending 20% or so of our uranium to Putin.

It seems a way to preserve the information. I mean sell the land, not artifacts and fossils, which would be preserved.

So where do you want to reduce the government?

Universities should buy lands, excavate, then sell them.

Good and dangerous news.

Sort of like the claims that the wives of people like Einstein and James Joyce are “really” the ones who came up with their theories and innovations, which the husbands “stole” and got credit for.

He’s an idiot for taking an interest in someone who gets drunk in public.

We can “change it for the better” but you can’t rely on the federal government to necessarily do that because they have concerns for their own interests and will totally change course whenever they want to.

All I know about Mormons is that the ones I’ve known appear to be decent sorts. I’m not saying they’re all saints.

Don’t get me confused with any religious fundamentalists. States have laws protecting geology and cultural remains and need to enforce them. I’m in favor of enforcing those laws.

The federal government’s place is to deal with cases over reservation boundaries so that shouldn’t be a problem. They should have the right to enforce rulings over the states. The Indians’ management of their own lands should be their business. If they screw it up it’s their problem.

Most states have laws requiring geological and archaeological surveys and rescue work before projects can be built. I hope that includes Utah.

I always wonder how extinct creatures would’ve tasted and which ones would’ve made good pets.

“Normalcy” isn’t supposed to be a real word. It was used by the idiot President Harding and so inserted into the language. The correct word is “normality”.

“Accused” doesn’t mean “proven guilty”.

“The best part of the video is the guy sitting down and using a candle to light his cigarette at the dinner table. Ah, the 60's.”

The reason for some old customs are probably lost. Part of it was to assure the female that she had to bear no responsibility at all with this guy around, that he’d be a great provider.

Most of us don’t care what rich people have or get or don’t have. We’re only concerned with what we have and get and what we can use it for. Projecting your envy on others is poor politics.