I don't think it's more racist, but I definitely don't like the idea that it was called marijuana to create a negative connotation with Latin Americans, but now that public opinion is coming around on it, people no longer want to associate it with the Latin American name.

You are correct. I had a brain fart. There are shells and the like, but you won't come across the next big T-Rex find.

To expand on this, being older than bones is why you can't find animal fossils in the Appalachian mountains.

Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell would also be a good read for someone looking favorably on the Soviets during the Spanish Civil War.

Is this bait, or do you just talk like that?

Winning is kind of his only chance to avoid the consequences for a lifetime of breaking the rules.

Republicans really aren't fans of letting people make their own choices. You could even say that they aren't pro-choice.

The puffer fish should have been a pistol shrimp

I spend way too long looking at it during concerts! They have it set up to look like clouds of smoke coming from the stage.

It's not too bad. They probably wouldn't have Windows either if they had to set it up themselves. My dad has been using Ubuntu for years, but he doesn't know it. It's just a laptop that works as far as he's concerned.

Yes