Me too. Hell, I'd give up both your testicles.

Ha! Nice one.

Annyong!

"Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If that [dolphin] ever got the chance he'd [rape] you and everyone you cared about!"

It is, and they did!

Yes, and yes. Not only is 8chan a thing, but it's so awful you can't even find it on Google:

Sir, I have no time for your pseudoscientific claptrap. We're having a serious empirical debate about chimp fucking, and you waltz in here with fantastic tales of "Irishman-Americans."

And on 8chan, somebody made a reference to ovens and posted a picture of Pepe the Frog wearing a swastika armband!

"Ji Yongxiang, head of a hospital in Shengyang, was reported as claiming to have been part of a 1967 experiment in Shengyang, in which a chimpanzee female had been impregnated with human sperm. According to this account, the experiment came to nothing because it was cut short by the Cultural Revolution, with the…

I just got an answer from an evolutionary biologist, and apparently my high school biology teacher was treating a somewhat arbitrary criterion as a biological fact. So I guess I can't really argue with someone suggesting that we re-classify chimps or humans into the same genus.

That's what I was wondering: I'm not a biologist, and wasn't sure if the "successful reproduction" criteria was a rule or an arbitrary criteria. If I understand you correctly and it's the second, then I guess I can't really object to the advocates cited who wish to change one of the species' genus for rhetorical…

So arguing about how close humans and chimps are biologically would seem to be rhetorical no?

Right, or like wolves and dogs. So doesn't that, by definition, place us in different genera since we can't reproduce with each other? It sounds like the people cited in the review arguing for us to be in the same genus are making a rhetorical argument, not an empirical assertion. Or am I misunderstanding what is…

"Any other two animals so closely genetically related, they claim, would be considered different species within the same genus; it’s only our own ego that insists on the dividing line."

Can we count James Brown as rock? Because if so, and if we're taking influence on subsequent music as the biggest factor, there's really no debate.

Yup. Caro's 80 but in (apparently) good health, while Martin's 67 and looks like he could drop dead at any moment.

In all fairness, if you break his assertions down into individual bullet points, he's batting .500. Johnson inarguably - by his own admission - stole the 1948 Texas Democratic primary, and was almost certainly going to be replaced as VP if Kennedy had run again in '64.

Yes, he does.

One thing I love about Caro's books is that within them he'll just go aside and make these biographies of other fascinating characters. So in addition to Robert Moses and LBJ, he's probably written the definitive biographies of Al Smith, Sam Rayburn, and Richard Russell.

Meanwhile, in their ongoing effort to stay to the NRA's right, the GOA has endorsed the reanimated corpse of Benito Mussolini.