Rain Gryphon

So, unscientific poll by local, soft-leftish newspaper shows that 53% of their readership don't believe that Biden won.


It's not hard to see why. Here's the New York Times record of how the votes were tallied on election night in Wisconsin.

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Cat translator app.

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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree comes with free Christmas Owl included.

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Back in 2001, when the Endless War started, I opined that we'd do far better to keep ground troops out of it, and just send heavy bombers to saturate the Taliban-held villages at unpredictable intervals, so that nothing moved that wasn't blown by the wind. I still think that.

So, somebody tried to blow up the President of Zimbabwe. He suspects politics may have been involved. If he ever tires of being POTZ, he definitely has a career as a detective waiting for him.

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I can honestly say that never in my life have I even once thought of offering or accepting payment in owls.

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Frederick II owned a book about birds that shows the first depiction of a cockatoo. That's a remarkably lifelike depiction of a cockatoo for 1248. It is, for instance, much more recognizable as a cockatoo than this is recognizable as Frederick II. I like that he apparently put his best painters to recording his birds. The cockatoo looks friendly, even. I wonder if he could talk? I find that I like the thought of such a great and powerful man relaxing by reading about birds.