With hopes of dispensing the “perfect antidote” to the stock market crash of 1987, Italian-born sculptor Arturo Di Modica spent two years welding a 7,000 pound bronze bull statue designed to capture the resilience of the American people.

Under the cover of night and without a permit, he installed his massive “Charging Bull” directly before the New York Stock Exchange, a gift New Yorkers loved but New York City initially hated. Authorities removed it, but later reinstalled it under pressure at a small public park in the financial district.

One would assume a rogue artist like Di Modica would be cool with the "Fearless Girl" statue that was recently put in front of his big-ass bull.

One would be wrong!

He forcefully advocated against a global campaign to make “Fearless Girl” a permanent fixture, but fans persevered, persuading New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to extend the statue’s permit through April 2018.

On behalf of his bull, Di Modica won’t back down.

The artist will hold a news conference Wednesday with attorney Norman Siegel, the former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, to explain his plans to challenge the city officials who let “Fearless Girl” happen without asking his permission.

One reliable constant stands out over these tumultuous weeks: for every Trump policy, there is an old Trump tweet calling it dumb pic.twitter.com/pwen0VeGo4

— Sulome Anderson (@SulomeAnderson) April 8, 2017

“We have more people. You know, humans have warm bodies. So is heat coming off?” Wagner said, according to State Impact Pennsylvania, an NPR project. “Things are changing, but I think we are, as a society, doing the best we can.”

The lawmaker was speaking to a receptive audience of rural county officials about loosening regulations on the natural gas industry.

At another point, Wagner appeared to conflate global warming with ... well, it’s not quite clear what he meant.

“I haven’t been in a science class in a long time, but the earth moves closer to the sun every year ― you know, the rotation of the earth,” Wagner said. “We’re moving closer to the sun.”

Oh, Republicanism.

Democratic state Rep. Jessica Farrar of Houston introduced the legislation in March to mock restrictions on women’s access to abortion and other health procedures.

With the stated purpose of regulating “men’s health and safety,” the bill would create a “civil penalty for unregulated masturbatory emissions” that occur “outside of a woman’s vagina [or] medical facility.”

Masturbation would be “considered an act against an unborn child” that “fail[s] to preserve the sanctity of life.” Semen would be stored in medical facilities and saved “for the purposes of conception for a current or future wife.”

It seems like a strange thing to assume that early hominids were concerned about the calories / weight ratios of different kinds of meat.

"Every story I have read about Trump supporters in the past week"

Next to her sits Linda Blarnik. Like the rusty hubcaps hanging on the wall behind her, she was made in America 50 years ago, back when this town made things, a time she still remembers fondly. She says she has had just enough of the “coastal elitist media who keep showing up to write mean things about my town and my life, like that thing just now where you said I was like a hubcap, yes you, stop writing I can see over your shoulder.” Mournfully a whistle blows behind her, the whistle of a train that does not stop in this America any longer.

It's funny because it's true.

Know who was a goddamned genius?

Donovan, that's who.

“Your brain tells you ‘Hey, I got this from three different sources,’ ” she says. “But you don’t realize it all traces back to the same place, and might have even reached you via bots posing as real people. If we think of this as a virus, I wouldn’t know how to vaccinate for it.”

Starbird says she’s concluded, provocatively, that we may be headed toward “the menace of unreality — which is that nobody believes anything anymore.” Alex Jones, she says, is “a kind of prophet. There really is an information war for your mind. And we’re losing it.”

...

Starbird sighed. “I used to be a techno-utopian. Now I can’t believe that I’m sitting here talking to you about all this.”

Perfect

N__B says:
March 30, 2017 at 2:30 pm

In Florida did Boobla Con a pleasure dome erect…

wjts says:
March 30, 2017 at 2:44 pm

His mouth, like a leaky faucet, ran,
With falsehoods unmeasurable by man
Not a one of them correct.

sibusisodan says:
March 30, 2017 at 2:56 pm

Some damsels with a drink or more
In a video tape I saw:
And they were all Russian maids,
And on–

Sorry, gotta go, person from Porlock at the door. I’ll remember it all for when I return, it’s ok.

Looked out the window, saw a duck flying through our trees. Saw another duck. They landed. In a tree! Ducks, in a tree.

I was incredulous!

Grabbed the binoculars. Everyone who lives near trees should have binoculars.

Yes indeed, ducks.

They were pretty far away. But I could see them. The male had crazy markings on his head! Stripes. Bright, twisty colors. Like hot 1980s graphics!

They are "wood ducks"! Descriptive names are the best names.

Somebody else's picture!

They have webbed feet with claws. They can perch. And they can swim.

They're actually pretty common. But it was my first time.