Hope none you got a visit from the tarantula wasp during your outdoor activities.
It's actually a kind of solitary wasp with a sting whose resulting pain only lasts three seconds, but it's so fiercely electric that it could only be described as totally unacceptable. "There are some vivid descriptions of people getting stung by these things," says invertebrate biologist Ben Hutchins of Texas Parks and Wildlife, "and their recommendation - and this was actually in a peer-reviewed journal - was to just lie down and start screaming, because few if any people could maintain verbal and physical coordination after getting stung by one of these things.
Star Wars Spinoff Movies
The first Star Wars spinoff movie, Rogue One just started filming this week and there are two more spinoff movies on the board. What spinoff would you morons want to see?
To put things in their proper perspective: There are eight Republicans whose voting records are, at best, only 15 points higher than Bernie Sanders (14%), the body's only Socialist.
And there are more Republicans with an "F" rating - 28 of them - than all other grades combined.
And leading this charge? Mitch McConnell (54%). The Republican Majority Leader ranks an "F."
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