Cats are not social carnivores. Only the lion defies that statement. So the small, wild cats that your domestic house cat was domesticated from, like the Jungle Cat, Serval, Caracal, Pallas Cat, and Fishing Cat, are all solitary hunters. Therefore, your cat at home doesn’t really hate you, they just have no instinctive use for you.
Review of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC from 4 April to 7 April 2019 including select films: Breakthrough, Buddy, Knock Down the House, Hail Satan?, and Ask Dr. Ruth.
Hiking photos from Hanging Rock State Park and Pilot Mountain State Park over the last two weeks’ hikes.
Trajan loves the snow!
Let me first say that I disagree, fundamentally, with all Confederate statues and monuments. They are offensive not only to minority groups who suffered the torture of slavery, but they are offensive to any patriotic American as they are hallmark memorials to traitors. But let’s dig a little deeper and examine the issue of Silent Sam on UNC’s campus…
Politicians lie. It’s what they do, and we’re not all that surprised when they do it anymore. We’ve become accustomed to this behaviour. It’s still unfortunate, and it makes my skin crawl that we can’t trust our elected officials to walk the walk after they talk the talk, but it’s not like this is anything new and astounding, either. So it doesn’t surprise me that Lindsey Graham is a liar. But after his Drama Queen performance on Thursday, I really want to dive deep into what he said, the root causes behind the hypocrisy of his words, and the ethical problems facing this one time Never Trumper turned Trump Loyalist.
I’ve had my new iPhone X for about five days now and just got a new case with six lenses built in—two telephoto lenses, a 120° wide angle, a 20x macro, a 10x macro, and a 180° fisheye—and it’s pretty fucking brilliant. Aside from the smaller form factor, I’m downsizing from the iPhone 6+, the…
We have never had a President who so blatantly and brazenly lies to the American public with such ease and a lack of ethical pause. There is a genuine disconnect between what the President says and the truth, and that’s something we’ve never seen before. Now, all politicians lie to get what they want—mainly votes—and…
It’s been a year since Donald Trump won the highest office in the land by an outdated method of electoral mathematics. There are those of us who still can’t believe it happened and those of us who are still in shock that the very institution designed to protect the country from such travesty, the Electoral…
With a 46% on RottenTomatoes and a 52 on MetaCritic, the new live action Ghost in the Shell movie, starring Scarlett Johansson, is bombing at the box office. The film is being almost universally panned by professional critics and fans of the 1995 animated film of the same name. Forbes, The Verge, Hollywood Reporter, Wired, and…
