[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- BBC News – Octopus snatches coconut and runs
- [BBC News]
[You have got to watch this video - though if you are afraid of octopi you should turn it off at about 1:20 - L.]
Underwater footage reveals that the creatures scoop up halved coconut shells before scampering away with them so they can later use them as shelters.
- The Common-Sense Case for Pacifism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- I'm a pacifist not because I oppose self-defense, but because it's virtually impossible to fight a war of self-defense. Even if militaries don't deliberately target innocent bystanders, they almost always wind up recklessly endangering their lives. If a policeman fought crime the way that "civilized" armies wage war, we'd put him in jail.
But isn't pacifism, in Homer Simpson's words, one of those views "with all the well-meaning rules that don't work in real life"? No. Here's my common-sense case for pacifism…
- naamah_darling: The Leg-Biting Bitch Loves To Fucking Swear.
- We need to be con brio, con forza, con fuoco, in rilievo.To speak softly in a climate of overwhelming hostility is to be diminuendo, perdendo, morendo.Are those pretty enough words for you motherfuckers?
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