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  1. jbg

    Wolves Return to Northeast!

    This is news I have been hoping for; NYSDEC Now Admits Cooperstown Wolf Was A Wild Wolf and similar title (link). This article appeard in yesterday morning's New York Times, see How Mistaken Identity and One Bullet Revealed a Star Predator Far From Home (non-paywalled link). I wanted to find...
  2. jbg

    Are Left-Hand Dominant People Marginalized in Sports and Elsewhere

    Should I have given you a trigger warning? Should I provided a safe place? How about puppies or stuffed animals?
  3. jbg

    Are Left-Hand Dominant People Marginalized in Sports and Elsewhere

    Today, when I went to play tennis, my partner asked if I wanted the "backhand" side when we were receiving. My wife is left-hand dominant; I am a "righty." I corrected my partner to call it the "add court" and the other side the "deuce court." Question is, is the use of the term "backhand"...
  4. jbg

    Thomas Cahill - The Gifts of the Jews; How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Believes

    No and no. Why?
  5. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    Excerpt: I just finished reading The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill. Don't worry, I did not finish this book in a day; I read a novel called Yellowfingers in between, where I was on a long wait at the library. This one...
  6. jbg

    Thomas Cahill - The Gifts of the Jews; How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Believes

    Finally, a book that is RF appropriate: Excerpt: I just finished reading The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill. Don't worry, I did not finish this book in a day; I read a novel called Yellowfingers in between, where I...
  7. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading Yellowface by R.F. Kuang. It is rare that I read a novel, but it was worth the wait on the library waiting list. Basically it's a discourse on the loneliness and competitiveness of the literary world, plagiarism, racism and reverse racism and "cultural appropriation." I...
  8. jbg

    Yellowstone Wolf Restoration - How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations

    Assuming you still had a hand left.
  9. jbg

    Yellowstone Wolf Restoration - How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations

    Golden retrievers do not like being petted.
  10. jbg

    Yellowstone Wolf Restoration - How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations

    What happened according to the article I quoted in the OP was that wolves "relocated" the elk from the wooded areas, where cougars could hunt them from trees to the open plains, where they had greater safety in numbers, and where cougars have trouble hunting. Or maybe it's the other way around...
  11. jbg

    Yellowstone Wolf Restoration - How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations

    Their tails are definitely like a whip. I find them quite ferocious. They look mean in that picture.
  12. jbg

    Yellowstone Wolf Restoration - How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations

    Is that a lawyer joke? I am one. This is a picture of some of the near-wolves I built up the courage to pet:
  13. jbg

    Yellowstone Wolf Restoration - How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations

    The coyotes have been the most affected of apex predators by wolves. I actually scratched behind the ears of an animal that shares almost all of wolves' chromosomes today.
  14. jbg

    Yellowstone Wolf Restoration - How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations

    How Wolves Are Driving Down Mountain Lion Populations This article is an interesting one. Back in 1968 I read an article partially about Yellowstone National Park in an issue focusing on national parks. Part of the article focused on elk and other ungulate overpopulation of Yellowstone. Hay was...
  15. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I read that about a year or so ago. Could not agree more!
  16. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant. A real page-turner, no question. While the title and the alleged subject is a man-eating Amur (Siberian) Tiger that was terrorizing a far Eastern village, the real subject is Russia, through the lens...
  17. jbg

    A lonely nation: Has the notion of the ‘American way’ promoted isolation across history?

    My story of loneliness. Where do I start? I never had many friends for my early years. Academic 1972-3 was really my first experience having more than one friend at a time. I had had a friend through Eighth Grade, and through me our parents became friends but I digress. We are still in touch...
  18. jbg

    What book r u reading?

    I just finished reading A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell. As one can see from the above-quote, this is a gentleman who has no patience for convention or stupidity. This is an autobiography. What else can one say but that this man, and his autobiography, are exceptional? From dire rural...
  19. jbg

    Sanctuary City Smugness Over - As Crisis Grows, All of New York (City’s) Migrant Plans Are Met With Outrage

    "(O)n February 6, 2017 the New York State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 3049B, dubbed the “New York State Liberty Act” (link). Not a coincidence, this was immediately after both houses of the Legislature became one party, and Trump was inaugurated President. This was, pure and simple, to...
  20. jbg

    Death and Comedy, or On Comedy, That’s the Funny Thing About Grief

    Another good one was the opening of the 1983 movie The Big Chill.
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