So the Science Men, they have decided that ducks are smart.

A duck farmer for many years, I could have told them that. But, they never asked. Instead, they made some Science Men tests. And that is how they learned. About the smartness.

Alex Kacelnik and Anotone Martinho III, they Science Man out at Oxford University. And there they "presented newborn ducklings with pairs of objects that were either identical or different in shape or color. And they found that the birds could learn these traits. They weren't imprinting on a specific shape or color, but on the concepts of 'same' or 'different.' They were looking beyond the individual objects to think about how they are related. In short, 'they were abstracting properties,' says Kacelnik."

These Science Men determined that the ducks, they distinguish between "same" and "different," earlier, and better, than do human infants.

This means ducks, they are the Rulers.

In this tube right here, you can learn whether you are smarter than a duck. You don't have to tell anyone the results.

I said that you were never to kill anyone, and I meant it.

I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever "fixed" at the Philadelphia Convention. Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by the framers particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war, and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, that we hold as fundamental today. When contemporary Americans cite "The Constitution," they invoke a concept that is vastly different from what the framers barely began to construct two centuries ago.

I don't believe in the prison. I don't care who it is that people want to put in there. Richard Reid. Richard Cheney. Richard Speck. I don't care. Because what happens in the prison, should happen to no human being. Or any other living creature.

Many words, they have been written against the prison. Yet the prison still stands. This is not fathomable to me. But, I know, the prison, it will not stand, always.

Dannie Martin, he wrote many wise and powerful words, against the prison. Words that were truth. Drawn from his own experience and observation. While interned in the prison.

In the summer of 1986, Martin was 46, in the sixth year of a 33-year sentence for bank robbery. He was locked away in the federal penitentiary at Lompoc. He had spent 21 years in various reform schools, jails, camps, prisons, and chain-gangs. He was the son of California Central Valley migrant workers—a "hillbilly." While still a pre-pube, he liked his liquor; later, he liked his heroin. Which is for why he robbed the banks. He was a reader—Shakespeare, Schopenhauer, Robertson Davies, Larry McMurtry, the New Yorker. And he was a writer. And, when he moved, that year, to write about the prison, the prison, it moved to snuff him out.

Before the Borg, there was advertising. It too seeks to penetrate everywhere, assimilate all, asserts that resistance is futile. It too is loathsome beyond the ability of humans to truly express. Though many have tried. Rudyard Kipling, for example, when in 1889 he shipped to San Francisco, was appalled to discover the city to be one large gaseous mass of advertisting.

Only the man who says no is free.

So servants of The Kenyan, they are asking the Congress to give them some laws that would explicitly permit the FBI to access people's intertubes browser history, and various other electronic data, and without a warrant.

FBI Director James Comey, he says the FBI actually already possesses such authority. Except said authority has been obscured by a "typo," introduced into the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. One that has encouraged certain Bad and Wrong companies to decline to provide tubular underpants-sniffing info that Congress clearly wished them to share with the FBI. This "scrivener's error," intones Comey, it is "needlessly hamstringing our counterintelligence and counterterrorism efforts."

Oh. Poor babies.

The American humans, they are always obsessing, about the primates trying to be the president. In doing so, they can sometimes miss the antics of the baboons, who are contending for lesser offices.

Now that The Kenyan, he has directed that the public schools, all across the nation, shall accommodate in the restrooms transgender students, it is futile, for the yeehaws, to form their beloved state of Jefferson.