Reuters: "The former reality-TV host spent a week claiming other governments were clamoring to make a deal, and yet he folded without extracting any visible concessions from even penguin-populated trading partners."

The penguins have met and decided. They will not pay a single silverfish.

“No locations. No sources & methods. NO WAR PLANS.” - Mike Waltz

This sure looks like a war plan for an imminent military strike to me, including times, systems to be used, and target information.

Is the current situation in the US what it felt like in 44 B.C.E. just before Julius Caesar ordered the Roman Senate to make him dictator for life?

I strongly disagree with almost all of his policies, and I'm trying to save my visceral outrage for actions truly damaging to the fabric of our Republic.

This is completely outrageous, both his words and the fact she didn't immediately resign.

I know almost nothing about astronomy. But I do know what I think is strikingly beautiful.

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Ann Telnaes' political cartoon rejected by the Washington Post, a decision which caused her to resign.

The Post won't publish this because it apparently hits too close to home.

Tired of news right now. Here is an owl video.

These are the people who will be whispering advice in the ear of the next President.

The Canal Zone was peacefully transferred to Panama on 31 December 1999.

Alaska was peacefully transferred to the US on 18 October 1867.

Do these people think Russia has a right to reclaim Alaska as well if they want? We have enough serious issues going on without this added foolishness, folks.

Vulcan mind meld

When I was a kid monarch butterflies were seemingly everywhere.

The western migratory population of monarchs has plunged by more than 95% since the 1980s, causing the US Fish and Wildlife Service to propose listing them as threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act.