Philosophical Questions: Rights

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

Do animals have rights and do those rights extend to all animals or do the rights change based on the complexity of the animal?

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"The Twin Fears of Men" is now complete!

Thanks to a donation from fuzzyred, you can now read the rest of "The Twin Fears of Men."  \o/  

New verses in "Babes in the Pineywoods"

Thanks to a donation from fuzzyred, there are 19 new verses in "Babes in the Pineywoods."  Bo-Art and Creamjeans talk with the Black Doctor.

Birdfeeding

Today is cloudy, chilly, and damp. It rained last night.

I fed the birds.  I put out a new peanut suet cake.  I've seen a large flock of sparrows, a flock of mourning doves, several starlings, two male cardinals, and a tufted titmouse. 

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/8/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

I put out more water for the birds.

I am done for the night.

Fossils

Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ancestors of today's waterfowl, surviving that mass extinction event was like ... water off a duck's back. Location matters, as Antarctica may have served as a refuge, protected by its distance from the turmoil taking place elsewhere on the planet. Fossil evidence suggests a temperate climate with lush vegetation, possibly serving as an incubator for the earliest members of the group that now includes ducks and geese.

Poem: "Everything Happens for a Reason"

This poem is spillover from the February 4, 2025 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by janetmiles. It also fills the "Morning-after Regrets" square in my 2-1-25 card for the Valentines Bingo fest and the "And I'm the monster?" square in my 10-1-24 card for the Fall Fest Bingo. This poem belongs to the series Quixotic Ideas. It directly follows "The Separation of Powers," so read that first or this won't make any sense.

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