Randomly, I adopted a pangolin for my husband this Valentine's Day. Can't remember why, must have come up on social media about the plight of the pangolins. He looked at me askance and I brandished the info booklet. Not his first rodeo, he's been gifted bees, donkeys and I can't think what else. We are super romantic, obviously.
"Anyway, I just learned that pangolins are the most trafficked animal on earth, because their scales — which are made of keratin, like fingernails are — are used in traditional medicine to treat cancer, asthma, rheumatism, to induce lactation and to do a variety of other things. Except they don’t actually treat any of those things, which you’d think people would have noticed at some point but I guess not."
IKR?
I've bitten my nails all my life and I've STILL never lactated!
Well, I'm sure that manatee would've just been fine in a kiddie pool in mid-classroom w/17 kids climbing all over it; "at least I ain't bee-in runnover by bass boat no more! But I just shit in the pool again and ain't nobody seems to be ready."
During Reagan's first term, Mike Royko, the great Chicago-based newspaper columnist, suggested that America really needed a king, because that would be the ideal role for Reagan to play. He could show up, acknowledge cheers, cut ribbons, greet visiting dignitaries, etc., all without having to actually govern or make any decisions.
Now an Irish columnist, writing in the NYT, suggests that America needs a king so that there might actually be some accountability in the Epstein case.
Mike Royko wrote a column criticizing Mayor Daley for providing Frank Sinatra with off-duty police as security when Frank was in town. At taxpayers' expense, of course.
Sinatra wrote Royko a nasty, insulting letter in which, among other things, he accused Royko of wearing a toupee.
Frank signed the letter, so Royko auctioned it off and donated the money to charity.
If I were the NYT, I'd suggest Prince Andrew: he's got royal blood and career education that would include Kingly duties should he go all Richard the III on his relatives.
Do you cook a pangolin like an artichoke? JK
We didn't have pangolins when I was a kid. I'm so impressed that they invented a whole new kind of animal, and such a cool one as well.
"Go back to sleep, honey"
~ Melania
Randomly, I adopted a pangolin for my husband this Valentine's Day. Can't remember why, must have come up on social media about the plight of the pangolins. He looked at me askance and I brandished the info booklet. Not his first rodeo, he's been gifted bees, donkeys and I can't think what else. We are super romantic, obviously.
Heartwarming Robyn. Thank you for applying your awesome creativity to uplifting the pangolin.
I can't believe someone as astute as RFK, Jr. didn't thoroughly read the insert about possible side effects of heroin before shooting up.
He doesn't shoot up. He licks it up (off the toilet seat, or off of DfT's ass).
Mickey puts me in mind of Henri, le Chat Noire – oh, the ennui!
Ha! I've got one of those little globes too! They're hilarious!
"Anyway, I just learned that pangolins are the most trafficked animal on earth, because their scales — which are made of keratin, like fingernails are — are used in traditional medicine to treat cancer, asthma, rheumatism, to induce lactation and to do a variety of other things. Except they don’t actually treat any of those things, which you’d think people would have noticed at some point but I guess not."
IKR?
I've bitten my nails all my life and I've STILL never lactated!
Well, I'm sure that manatee would've just been fine in a kiddie pool in mid-classroom w/17 kids climbing all over it; "at least I ain't bee-in runnover by bass boat no more! But I just shit in the pool again and ain't nobody seems to be ready."
At some point we're going to be hit with the news that pangolins are neo-nazis or something and I'm going to be emotionally crushed by that.
Never meet your heros!
Who were the cute cannibal animals? Inquiring minds want to know.
Dunno what Robyn wrote about, but hamsters will eat their babies if they are too stressed.
That's how ferret breeders determine if a female is going to be a good mother. They don't eat their litters.
Kind of a low bar.
Nobody should be having kids today given the state of the world.
Be like hamster... eat your young!
In Canada. You wouldn't know them.
I've always believed that Armadillos are Tactical Possums, and Pangolins are Battle Armadillos.
https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2016/06/tarkus.jpeg?w=1200&h=0&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89
One of the first albums I purchased way back in the day.
Ditch Tangerini's SOTU for "The State of the Swamp" event on Tuesday, February 24, 2026:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m7VpEfNjII
Sure, Jan, why not?
TFG raises NEW illegal "Global tariff" rate from 10 to 15%
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/tariff-ruling-live-coverage-trump-attacks-supreme-court-imposes-10-global-tariff-then-raises-it-to-15-184403258.html
Collapse onto your omlet bar, already.
He is just daring the Dems to impeach him after the midterms. Again.
He's just acting out. A typical toddler response to being told no.
Based on his history, I'm guessing his plan is to keep increasing the global tariff until SCOTUS changes their mind.
The statute he is using this time limits the tariff to 15% and 150 days.
To him, 150 days is just another way to say two weeks.
Cdc is trying to fast track a politically driven vaccine study that basically exports a variation of the Tuskegee syphilis study to Africa. Long read.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/new-documents-vaccine-study-cdc-approval-1235518406/
I'd like to see him go face first into a mushroom and spinach omelet.
Both of those ingredients bring health benefits with them and would not be included in his omelette.
The Mar-a-Lago omelette bar probably has a meatlovers special.
Waste of a good omelet.
It wouldn't be that good if it came from the Mar a Lago kitchen. That place is C- at best.
During Reagan's first term, Mike Royko, the great Chicago-based newspaper columnist, suggested that America really needed a king, because that would be the ideal role for Reagan to play. He could show up, acknowledge cheers, cut ribbons, greet visiting dignitaries, etc., all without having to actually govern or make any decisions.
Now an Irish columnist, writing in the NYT, suggests that America needs a king so that there might actually be some accountability in the Epstein case.
Sigh. How far we haven't come.
Mike Royko wrote a column criticizing Mayor Daley for providing Frank Sinatra with off-duty police as security when Frank was in town. At taxpayers' expense, of course.
Sinatra wrote Royko a nasty, insulting letter in which, among other things, he accused Royko of wearing a toupee.
Frank signed the letter, so Royko auctioned it off and donated the money to charity.
Don't know much about Royko, but everything I hear makes him sound like a pretty solid guy.
If I were the NYT, I'd suggest Prince Andrew: he's got royal blood and career education that would include Kingly duties should he go all Richard the III on his relatives.
Oh...that wouldn't work at all.
Stupid NYTs.