Wow. Think apex predators today are weird? Have a look at this guy:
This is Anomalocaris canadensis, a top predator of the Cambrian, about 500 million years ago. Kind of a big death-shrimp, running up to two feet long. It very likely chased around soft-bodied critters in the Cambrian seas, skewered them with those big spiky grabbers on its front end and slurped them down.
One wonders how they’d taste, but you’d need a big pot and a lot of drawn butter.
Now then…
On To the Links!
Riots in France have cost businesses $1 billion – so far.
Oh, his age is a joke all right – just not the way he’s trying to say.
To improve public schools, end public schools. I don’t think they can be saved.
What Stop Oil Now wants is the end of our modern, technological civilization.
Causes of low voter turnout in Alaska’s 2022 election.
I wonder what he’ll do to embarrass the United States this time.
More military diversity hires.
Nothing will ever “cure inequality.” Not in economics. We can strive for equal treatment under the law, and that is all.
My RedState stuff:
Pronouns ‘They/Them’ Make Resumes More Likely To Be Ignored
Electric Vehicles, Taxation, and Government Intrusion
Using AI to Turn the Tables on Scammers
An Alaska Independence Day Tradition – the Glacier View Car Huck
The Savagery of Automating Genital Mutilation Surgery
‘Assault Weapons’ and Hogging the Spotlight
Donald Trump – Our Horatius at the Bridge?
New Poll on Unity and Disunity – The Divided States?
The Decline and Fall of Joe Biden
Ghost Guns and Inconvenient Truths
Germany and the Rise of the Right
This Week’s Idiots:
Newsweek’s Dallas Ducar is an idiot.
MSNBC’s Keisha Blain is an idiot.
The daffy old Bolshevik from Vermont is still an idiot.
The Los Angeles Times’ is an idiot.
Vox’s Ian Millhiser (Repeat Offender Alert) is an idiot.
MSNBC’s (Repeat Offender Alert) is an idiot.
This Week’s Cultural Edification:
I’ll be brief here: The summer I was eighteen, I had a ‘liaison” that lasted about two months, with a divorcee who was exactly twice my age. This was before the term ‘cougar’ was coined to describe this sort of thing, but boy howdy, if that ain’t exactly what she was. I spent a few Friday and Saturday nights (overnights, that is) at her apartment, but her ex kept coming around with bunches of flowers, trying to patch things up, and that was awkward. So the relationship kind of unraveled, although we stayed friends until I eventually moved away from Iowa for good a few years later. I don’t know where she is now, and she’d be pushing eighty. Wow.
I will say I learned an awful lot that summer…
Anyhoo… The pack of miscreants and ne’er-do-wells I called my friends teased me a fair amount about this liaison, and regularly greeted me when I showed up someplace by singing this song; if you remember the 1967 film The Graduate, you’ll understand why.
