RMF@fum i estalzí makes the interesting suggestion, re Pew, that anti-Americanism is stronger in Spain than in prominent Muslim nations, which, we are told, have every reason for hating Americans. Maybe religion isn’t such an important determinant of attitudes after all.
I imagine news of the Slovenian bear that has gone urseshit in greater Germany will do nothing to calm the nerves of Pyreneans re Slovenian bear releases here. Do remind me to send you a copy of that rivers of sheep immigration speech I made a while ago.
The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology (1876): “At 6.09 am the female went on the nest, while the male continued to sing loudly from his perch, making no move to escort her on.”
Brief visions of two tongues being fitted, enabling one’s bilingual brain to slot the correct one into place as and when. (Aside: The Sufis say that two tongues of fire await those who speak with two tongues here and now.) I’d like to understand how this kind of stuff pans if the brain has doubts…