Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. People continue to
use the death of G.F. as an excuse to vent their own frustrations over
everything that has gone wrong in their lives and in the life of the planet for
the last 3-4 months or so, and the Donald decided to make his input by
designating the antifa as a terrorist movement. Couldn’t he made the same
choice for the skinheads as well?..
Listen: yes, shit has hit the fan here, and there is almost
no way out of it that would make you smell rosy. Yes, while staying out of this
mess has become impossible by now for a public
figure, it does not mean that you have to almost deliberately make it worse
by choosing sides and almost not bothering to hide it. Pause.
Yes, we’re talking about the same Donald, about the same man
that got schooled by Taylor Swift recently; Taylor Swift, people, who isn’t
exactly a poster child for interracial good relationships, as her
confrontations with the Kardashian-West clan in the past showed – but this time
practically everyone is choosing her over the POTUS; remind me, why hasn’t he become
impeached yet?
Well, the Republicans do not want to impeach him, because
they remain on top of the U.S. political society, (and beyond), by adding their
camels to his caravan, metaphorically speaking; and the Democrats?..
With them, it is trickier, but as we have talked before, and
repeatedly, since the elections-2016, really, the DNC has a lot of internal
issues, which, now, (June 2020, happy summer-2020, everyone, BTW!), show no
signs of being resolved. Mr. Biden might be the Democrats’ designated candidate
for presidency, but now? His campaign is decisively lackluster, as is the man
himself.
…Yes, many strata of the U.S society, (including the state
governors and what else have you), are fed up with the Donald, but did the
Democrats had to put up someone so lackluster at Mr. Biden? …
Apparently yes, so
when the elections-2020 will begin in earnest, may they reap what they have
sowed, the end. What next?
…I actually wanted to talk about sparrows today. No, I am
not talking about Captain Jack from Disney's PotC franchise, though Mr. Depp? Sorry
about everything that you went though. You did not deserve that; you deserved
better. Rather, I want to talk about the actual birds that are called sparrows,
but it is trickier than how it sounds.
To begin, the word ‘sparrow’ is used to name quite a few of
different birds. In the Old World, this was the name of songbirds,
(biologically speaking), which belong to the Passeridae family; of them, the house sparrow is the best-known in
the New World, though the so-called tree or field sparrow is a close second
back in the old country.
The native New World sparrows belong to the Passerellidae family instead; both they
and the Old World sparrows belong to the same avian superfamily, the
Passeroidea, and in many ways, they are similar to each other, but they do not
hybridize readily, so most scientists agree that the two families are not very
closely related to each other after all. Anything else?
…Some other passerine birds are also called ‘sparrows’, even
though they belong to yet other Passerine families, such as the Estrlididae,
(the so called Java and Timor sparrows), or the Prumellidae, (the hedge sparrow
or the dunnock, which, I believe, was featured on Sir David Attenborough’s ‘Life
of Birds’ series). Isn’t taxonomy fun? It is certainly funnier than the real
life, which sucks!..
…For now, however, this is it. See you all soon!
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