CNN: You don't wunna drive around with a bee in your car.

1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.

The embrace of political partisanship, the dropping of standards, the buckling to donor demands at the expense of long-held principles—Glasser says all of these developments have rendered the ACLU unrecognizable from the group he once led.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-disintegration-of-the-aclu-james-kirchick

Moar Bees: Don't you hate it when bee handlers are stone foxy?

Moderna, Pfizer, and BioNTech could have plenty of room to run.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/06/02/this-ominous-warning-from-moderna-could-shake-up-t/?source=eptyholnk0000202&utm_source=yahoo-host&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article

The U.S. government secured major supply deals with leading vaccine makers, notably Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) and Pfizer (NYSE:PFE). These companies made billions of dollars, ...

Moderna thinks that "new epidemic
waves are undoubtedly on the way."...

The bottom line is that booster shots and new vaccines targeting the variants will likely be needed. ...

Moderna's research appears to indicate that it's not a question of if but when booster shots will be required...

If the coronavirus continues to mutate and force the need for new variant-specific vaccines to keep the pandemic at bay, Moderna, Pfizer, and BioNTech could have plenty of room to run.

When the demand for bigotry outstrips the supply:

https://twitter.com/goldisacks/status/1399797336407166983

> These companies made billions
> of dollars...

Those companies were tragically underpaid.

If they called up and asked, I would happily send each of them —and not just my beloved Moderna™ 💉—

• A check for $1000

• A certificate for Unlimited Breadsticks

• A ribbon-scrolled Hindu koan, scratched in exotic calligraphy on crinkly paper, blessing ten generations of sexual fulfillment upon their descendants.

And if you ever bother fix this house someone from City Hall will order you to return it to its broken-down state because opf its historical value

https://twitter.com/alob_e/status/1399787338419613704

Here's the sick part: This woman is BRAGGING—

I'm 21 and live in a 72-square-foot NYC apartment that costs $1,345 a month. Here's what a day in my life looks like.

You can tell which ethnicity is when they don't specify it in the headline:

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1400008300708696066

I say more power to 72-square-foot girl. She's figured out a way to neatly organize her necessities into a tiny space, she's learning to live without clutter and unnecessary items, and she found something in her budget. A decade from now, she might have a house in the suburbs with kids and two dogs, so now's the time to do what she's doing.

I lived in a basement closet in D.C. for a year. I now live in an 1800 sq-foot house in TX with attached garage (for just a little more per month than what paid for the basement closet), and the skills I developed back in the basement closet serve me to this day when it comes to organization, efficiency, budgeting and decluttering. It also has taught me to pack light for travel and camping. I sometimes think longingly on those days when my packrat husband brings home new items to stash in the cluttered garage and my in-laws call our house "a tiny little cottage."

Can't they just play the pregnant card to avoid it? I mean, it's neither China nor Hollywood so..

https://twitter.com/Jezebel/status/1399716156710129671

Makes me wonder if NASA has a "No Furries Allowed" in their premises after this incident:

https://twitter.com/ChristinaTasty/status/1399764191662202882

So, remember how, last year (2020!) when everything was turning to poo nationally and internationally anyway, we also had to worry about the severe flooding that was threatening to collapse the Three Gorges Dam, which would have devastated the Chinese economy, and thus our own economy as well?

Well, Hello Summer 2021!

I liked both of those links regarding bees, Crid, but the intro to the first one was a bit misleading.

That is, you don't want a QUEEN bee in your car, since the others will follow. But whether it's a queen or not, one should never panic and cause an accident with the car, since a trapped bee's only interest is...getting out. (A trapped wasp is a different matter.) Bees only sting in self defense.

The comment in the second one, that they don't make trouble when they don't yet have anything to defend, was a surprise.

Btw, I find hives fascinating - and romantic. Maybe because people tend to think "rustic" when they see one, even a very modern one? Not to mention that bees are even smart enough to COUNT landmarks in their area! (I first heard that via Dave Barry, who referred to this 1995 study from Berlin.)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14519672-900-busy-bees-have-a-gift-for-numbers/

And here's Barry's 1996 column:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1996/08/25/insectarian-violence/dbf15850-06cd-4445-b0c1-77e2535aa8c9/

Some people aren't bothered by bee stings, but I certainly am, so "rustic" will never be what comes to mind. Run Like the Wind! will be what comes to mind.


It's probably on the internet somewhere, but...

We're told that worker bees are genetically identical siblings, and thus have no particular worth as individuals. (Same for ants.)

Why then would any hive accept (or reject) a new queen, since she wasn't genetically related to any of them?

"Why then would any hive accept (or reject) a new queen, since she wasn't genetically related to any of them? "

Ah, THAT'S why the English despise us!

Seriously, though, the royal ears. Yikes.

The Royal Minds are unforgivable.

Ever known anyone who actually took the time to rage against Monty Python's "Every Sperm is Sacred," on the grounds that the title should be regarded as TRUE?

Ever assumed no one could top that?

Here goes...and it's hard to believe WHERE this was published!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/spare-a-thought-for-the-billions-of-people-who-will-never-exist?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_content=businessweek&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek

From toraneko:

"By this logic, shouldn't humans spend all their time mating in order to maximise the number of egg and sperm combinations?"

@Lenona,

The only man to ever got close to that was Genghis Khan.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/mongolia-genghis-khan-dna

All the Californians "fleeing" to Texas must REALLY hate women's rights.

Lenona, no number of reference to Oxford and cleanse that article of the stink of weed-smoke conversation in the undergrad dorm. Bleccchhhh.

Typos. The point is that piece seemed extremely silly.