Yeah, you've latched onto some of the best [where best equals... hmmm....] stories in the news.
I was thinking about the orca one a lot. Those whales are not like dolphins. They're a lot bigger, and they're used to killing and eating bigger things. That's one thing... I've been feeling the urge to anthropomorphize and say that the whale had been brooding and angry all this time and hated captivity and was just waiting for a chance to take down his trainer. But I think that's probably dead wrong. And if it *is* dead wrong, then I wonder what caused him on that day to make that move. One person said the whale had seemed agitated earlier in the day--but that could be people remember to fit the situation. Or maybe he was agitated. Who knows?
That so-called tax protestor... as some commentator said, "Thoreau was a tax protester. Flying a plane into a building in a suicide-murder move is not tax protesting." Also, re: taxes and government in general, I think it's too bad people have such a huge dissociation from government and from taxes and what they do. Government is us ("Soylent Green is people!), and taxes are money that we give to ourselves to do things like help us pay for college, repair our roads and bridges, pay our social security...
And that person who killed her colleagues and then it was revealed she had killed her brother--yeah, that was wild. I didn't realize she had been attracting support, though. Crazy.
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I was thinking about the orca one a lot. Those whales are not like dolphins. They're a lot bigger, and they're used to killing and eating bigger things. That's one thing... I've been feeling the urge to anthropomorphize and say that the whale had been brooding and angry all this time and hated captivity and was just waiting for a chance to take down his trainer. But I think that's probably dead wrong. And if it *is* dead wrong, then I wonder what caused him on that day to make that move. One person said the whale had seemed agitated earlier in the day--but that could be people remember to fit the situation. Or maybe he was agitated. Who knows?
That so-called tax protestor... as some commentator said, "Thoreau was a tax protester. Flying a plane into a building in a suicide-murder move is not tax protesting." Also, re: taxes and government in general, I think it's too bad people have such a huge dissociation from government and from taxes and what they do. Government is us ("Soylent Green is people!), and taxes are money that we give to ourselves to do things like help us pay for college, repair our roads and bridges, pay our social security...
And that person who killed her colleagues and then it was revealed she had killed her brother--yeah, that was wild. I didn't realize she had been attracting support, though. Crazy.