Alaska Native Manitou

I once needed to replace my Social Security card, but it was difficult because the agency had my mother's maiden name wrong. She was married twice, but it wasn't either of those names either. Just some random surname that they somehow attached to her - & probably still do.

In the 1965 book Wild Heritage, Sally Carrigar noted that ethologists (biologists who study animal behavior) have long witnessed animals which show no interest in pair-bonding or mating. It's only a small percentage. Back then it was labeled a mental problem; hopefully those scientists have a better understanding now.

An aromantic imgflip stream: https://imgflip.com/m/A-stuff

All 7000 of them?!

I'd rather listen to punk music than get married.

"Adam West" by Wally Wingert

The cherry trees are blooming again where I live, maybe due to weather fluctuations. I don't know if some trees didn't blossom before, or if the same trees are doing it again.

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(The panels read from right to left)

Frankie Stein from Monster High.

The ugly truth

Harry Belafonte, pioneering activist, singer and actor, has died at the age of 96. Harry Belafonte was born in Harlem to Jamaican immigrant parents. He is credited with popularizing Caribbean music in the U.S. with his chart-topping 1956 album “Calypso,” which included the hits “Jump in the Line,” “Jamaica Farewell” and “Day-O.” His musical success led to multiple acting offers, and he went on to star in dozens of films and TV shows. But his driving force was activism, and he leveraged his successful entertainment career to shine a spotlight on civil rights and to fund movements like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He participated in the 1963 March on Washington. Belafonte famously said, “I was an activist who became an artist, I was not an artist who became an activist.”