Two chimpanzees mauled an American graduate student in South Africa last month. He was leading a tour of a jungle refuge filled with our closest animal relatives. Tragically, he stepped inside a restricted zone, violated chimpanzee territory, and they defended themselves. The young man is missing fingers and toes, one testicle, hunks of arm flesh, […]
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It Takes A Neanderthal
January 31, 2012 
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“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. […]
Continue readingSixty Isn’t Old If. . . .
November 15, 2011 2 Comments
Twenty years ago I received a t-shirt that read, “Forty isn’t old, if you’re a tree.” Now that I’m about to increase my age by half, I find myself remembering the shirt. Do they print ones that say, “Sixty isn’t old, if you’re a tree”? I don’t think so, because sixty is old if you’re […]
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