We defy you to read this headline without laughing: "Man shot girlfriend mistaken for hog: updated."
As if the story wasn't bad enough the first time, now that it is being repeated for a "one-year-later" follow-up on the couple, it is painfully conspicuous that the article shows a photo of a wild hog—but not of the girlfriend. Which of course leaves us no choice but to wonder about any similarities in appearance...
But what if House Speaker Boehner and the chairman of the House Science Committee said they didn't know if the science behind climate change was real. (Yeah. That actually happened.)
Now obviously, it doesn't matter if I just make stuff up about unicorns. But it matters, and it matters a whole lot, that so many of our elected officials in Washington who represent us are denying science and using that denial to refuse to take action on climate change.
Two photos attached. Sending them due to your comment on last Friday's fish featuring the photo of you in the river with your four sisters. Someone else commented, "So you were the little brother they would play dress with," and you replied: "Yes, they would do that, and our mother would too! I hope none of THOSE photos are extant!" Well, guess what?
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| Morris with his mother's doll Josephine |
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| Morris and his nephew Ron [we think] |
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| Cowboy Morris standing up with six-shooter |
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Limerick of the Week:
I had eye surgery on Monday at one,_______________
My left retina'd torn and started to run.
Doc flattened and lasered it
And with gas inflated it.
Blogging this week has been off-the-ground fun.
Copyright © 2013 by Morris Dean
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Nice break. Had not expected that.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the parrot may be smarter than most of the people mentioned in today's Fish - except for Morris and family, of course.
ReplyDeleteGreat report about the bear at Morro Rock! But they locked down a school and removed the bear because it showed up in a state park? Isn't that one of the purposes of a state park, to give wild animals a home that have no other place to live? At least they didn't kill it, like they seem to do with most mountain lions that show up in the Morro Bay/San Luis Obispo area.
Yes, motomynd, I almost get the sense from the reporter of the bear story that she was SURPRISED (as well as relieved) that the bear wasn't harmed, as though that would have been the usual, expected thing to have happened, human beings lording it over all as they are wont to [try to] do.
DeleteMorris, as you know, one of the main reasons I am planning a move to Cali is the allegedly progressive mindset there. And now I find out they are apparently 50 or more years behind the way we deal with wildlife in the Southeast? Can you imagine the chaos here if they locked down and grabbed tranquilizer guns every time a bear showed up?
ReplyDeleteOn a lighter note, that parrot video is fantastic! A friend in Rwanda had a semi-tame African Grey who lived on the patio and was similarly smart - and had a wicked sense of humor. When guests were visiting he would slowly walk sideways along the top of the patio wall and seemingly innocently sidle up to the unwary. When they rested their hand on the wall within his range he would grab a finger in his bill - a bill which can crack open nutshells - and clamp down. The rest of us would hear the scream and laugh, knowing someone else had been indoctrinated. The parrot too would laugh, and move on to his next victim. You could spot newcomers to the patio, versus veterans, by watching who always kept an eye on the parrot.
motomynd, I am glad of the lighter note, for the darker note is ominous and foreboding...until one considers that maybe what it really is about Cali that could attract you is that their hearts are willing to do better ethically and effectively for the environment but they've been too distracted by the enjoyments of their many physical attractions to learn how.
DeleteHow could that be appealing to you?
You will come to "the Golden State" bearing knowledge and communication skills that can capture their attention. I see you in a few years' time having become a headline activist with a following in the many thousands intent on revolutionizing Cali's stewardship of their portion of Planet Earth. From Cali, good can radiate outward....