tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post5053696336217620962..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Links 6 November 2020Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-90436746270087521742020-11-06T13:41:39.115-05:002020-11-06T13:41:39.115-05:00In New Zealand, rampaging peacocks.
The thing abo...<i>In New Zealand, rampaging peacocks.</i><br /><br />The thing about peacocks is that for all the bright plumage of the males, the females and juveniles are quite drab and earth toned - and even the males have some pretty remarkable camouflage when they want to hide, particularly up in tree branches, and so I can understand it might be hard for farmers to hunt them effectively to protect their crops.<br /><br />That said, "rampaging" is clearly not the proper word. They aren't attacking people - they're just existing and surviving, albeit by eating farm crops.<br /><br /><i>In Japan, you can get a degree in Ninja Studies.</i><br /><br />Sure, just like how in America you can get fake degrees that mean nothing too.<br /><br />The Japanese are about as ignorant of real ninjas as anyone else, because there simply aren't many credible historical records about them. It's a topic overwhelmingly dominated by pop culture and folktale imaginings, as even in their own time ninjas were mysterious and the subject of rumor and legend.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-69666602444633304962020-11-06T07:52:17.526-05:002020-11-06T07:52:17.526-05:00I found the fate of those California ballot initia...I found the fate of those California ballot initiatives to be one of the most devastating outcomes in an overall sad event. It reveals just how hollow liberalism is in contemporary America.<br /><br />On the Hispanic vote: yes, it's fun to watch liberal intellectuals be proven wrong about everything. Anti-racist whites, like anti-sexist males, have no friends. But the rightward affinity of many Hispanics is also depressing (although, again yes, it should not have been surprising).Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456987412710878404noreply@blogger.com