Why is this the most popular? Is there something in particular, like a celebration or disaster?

Men! Clinch the victory by pursuing their fleeing horse archers across this plateau with insufficient springs! Ignore the trifling discomforts of heat, sweat, and increasing thirst!

"Bronze Age Collapse"?! That's silly. You'd have to have Sea Peoples rampaging and ... crashing trade ... um, wait a minute.

The U.S. had a Five Good Emperors streak. Presidents might have bad policies on some matters, but they mostly had competent administrations & historians rank them highly. FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson. Even Nixon had good points and Carter had some bad luck.

"Removed by author", whatever it was.

Not sure why I find it so creepifying. Maybe because the sunglasses look like unnatural eyes. If they looked real—2 lenses set off the face, obvious bridge, obvious temples going back to the sides—I think it'd be much better.

I'm sorry, but can someone please provide the URL for that feed? I'm not familiar with feeds, so if it's in plain sight, I don't happen to see it. A quick search shows a number of feeds calling themselves "what's hot" in various ways.

A hummingbird once barked at me. It was moderately high pitched (tenor?), so it had the energy of a chihuahua who could reach my face & who could fly faster than I could run. I backed up & turned away.

Meme: Samuel Johnson peering at a book

"mercenary anarcho-lib..." wait what

[eyeroll at the joke]

Now, what you hear is not a test, I'm rapping to the beat

And me, the Groove, and my friends are gonna try to move your feet

—wait, I misread "rappeller"

doo doo doo doo doo doo

baby goats doo doo doo doo doo doo

baby goats doo doo doo doo doo doo

eaten by-y-y-y-y

baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo....

I think because "Lefty" was capitalized. I've only seen "Left" with a political meaning.

Secretaries of State and what in 1843? I think Navy.

No, thänk ÝÜ.

Oh, Hagar the Horrible! Thank you!

(Interesting that, if you google those names, the top hits are all about Sammy Hagar and Eddit van Halen.)

I'm not up on the Deep Magic. Who were the "wisecracking viking and his dim best friend"?

I move an amendment to strike the word "Asian" from the reply, and change "an" to "a" because someone would complain.

Petrichor!

Again?

Out of curiosity, do things like "TAXONOMIC REASSESSMENT OF ... TYRANNOSAURINE" make you go, "oh, no, not again"? Or "yes, again!"?

Nicely done example.

or formal introductions: "Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States". A few more exceptions to avoid ambiguity: "Speaker of the House", "Fleet Admiral, General of the Army".

"the pope; the papacy; Pope John Paul II"

"French president François Mitterrand (better: President François Mitterrand of France)"; capitalized in direct address ("Yesterday, Professor, ..."); capitalized in formal usage of acknowledgements and contributor lists even if following, or if used in place of a personal name in toasts ...

"titles following a personal name or used alone in place of a name ... are, with few exceptions, lowercased." Other cases: capitalized for multiple names ("Mayors Cernak and Walker"); lowercased in apposition ("the emperor Maximilian (the emperor who was Maximilian)" ...

I have to hand the Chicago Manual of Style 14th ed., 1993. Titles are in 7.16 et seq. "Civil, military, religious and professional titles and titles of nobility are capitalized when they immediately precede a personal name, as part of the name: President Eisenhower, Prince Charles"...

I use color-catcher sheets, comparing before and after. Does that work also? I have the impression it does.

Is there any way to tell whether he's a puppy who is a samurai, or a normal puppy who happens to be owned by a samurai? The former makes more sense, I'm sad to say.

Nicely framed with Fermilab in the back.

That's not Voyager, that's ST:TNG's Enterprise D.