During breakfast: kids, guess who is visiting us today? Yes! Uncle Jeffrey! So go get the baculums and show uncle Jeffrey what I taught you.

I have a feeling he took the kids and made that a teachable moment. See kids, we cut Mr. Raccoon' pee pee, then at home we clean it up and we'll have a nice baculum we can put in the living room with the rest.

Probably less absurd than it appears. Many modern videogames require gamers to manage multiple situations in real time under pressure while competing with other gamers. A skil you can transfer to 'manage airplanes trying to use the runways while giving direction to incoming planes avoiding accidents and deaths'. I can imagine that must be attractive for adrenaline lovers.

Work and trust

Actually he was, but he was still blue rare when they took him out of the bbq.

I think the title is a bad edit of "the oldest domestic dog was a puppy..."

Medication (and mother substances) can affect your ability to have dreams, and what they are about too. Depends a lot on the type of medication and your specific case (not everyone reacts the same to each medication), so YMMV. I've been in treatment for depression for over 20 years with different medications and therapy styles and definitely I saw significant differences.

Maybe not evolutionary advantage, but vestigial origin. Maybe a feature that is in the middle of development / disappearing.

Fat bats are my new favorite character in illuminated medieval texts!

Needs more turkey. Also, I would try and cook it before eating it just to be safe.

The populists are there for personal gain. They will be Ok in this story. The rest, on the other hand...

Edit: idiom

It's worrying. This demonstrates (again) how people can be manipulated into supporting anything if tickled the right way.