Some thoughts on vintage Forest Service posters:
There were probably debates about “your” versus “thy” versus “my.” It would be confusing to say “thy,” since “thy” always means “God,” but “thy” had more Biblical authority than “your.” “My” might suggest Smokey owned the forests, and was assuming the first-person voice of the author of the other Ten Commandments, and some people have enough trouble with the Trinity without bringing a bear into it.
From you guessed it.
Two chatbots being d**ks to each other. Are they really being emotional? Only Turing knows.
But no one will care:
Timothy F. Johnson, founder of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, said Wednesday that the civil rights abuses and crimes of the Jim Crow era were carried out mostly in regions controlled by the Democratic Party. He decried Carson’s comments as “outrageous, hateful, and desperate,” adding in a statement: “When some Democrats can’t win a political disagreement, they normally resort to race-baiting, which is in itself racist.”
Deneen Borelli: Carson “absolutely should resign,” Borelli said. “This is very dangerous, the comments that he made.” Deneen Borelli, an African-American tea party speaker and a fellow with Project 21, a network of black conservatives under the auspices The National Center for Public Policy Research, called for Carson to resign.
“This is absolutely outrageous for him to say these kinds of comments, especially considering what position he holds in the Congressional Black Caucus,” she told Newsmax. “This is someone who is supposed to be showing a leadership role, and instead he is inciting racial tension in our country.
It’s who they are. It’s what they do.
If they think that this is going to earn them any sympathy, they shouldn’t expect it from me. I’ll bet that no one is allowed to wear yarmulkes, either, but you’d never see Orthodox Jews rioting over it. And shame on the New York Daily News for deceptive reporting.
Why it’s a bad idea for women. Here’s the original article.
…to a cross-bow fight:
Officer Dino Delimitros says the boy and a friend were throwing rocks in the Linda Vista neighborhood Monday afternoon when a passenger in a black Toyota RAV4 pulled out a crossbow and fired.
I’m guessing that his future lithokinetic activity will be curtailed somewhat.
…of pronouns. Interesting stuff.
A brief history of hysterical environmental false alarms. Some of which have killed millions. Rachel Carson’s holocaust was bigger than Hitler’s.
This isn’t a new XKCD, but I hadn’t seen it before.