Day: April 8, 2025

in Jurassic Park, “Nature will find a way”.

Yes it will. The Dire Wolf, as most of us have surely heard by now, has been brought back from extinction with two currently 6 month old males and a recent female pup. All that’s needed to create a Dire Wolf pack, and more can be brought back now that they have the science and procedures down.

Dire Wolves are going to be in huge demand at zoos and “safari” type parks, and there will be colonies of them, all properly fenced, of course, in various states, where, eventually and without a shadow of a doubt, at least one will escape and mate with local wolves or dogs and LO, a whole new predatory species will be back in action, just like the old one.

Dire Wolves had natural enemies, like Cave Bears, Cave Lions, giant sloths, and strangely, all these species disappeared about the same time. Or not strangely, since the presence of Man in North America and points south has now been established at at least 23,000 years ago, during which time all our major predator/competitors died out.

Try to imagine a population of deer surviving very long after a pack of Dire Wolves moves into the area. Can you? I can’t.

I can hardly wait until they start bringing back the other big predators. The DNA of dinosaurs lives on in birds, lizards and crocodiles, just as Dire Wolf DNA does in modern wolves. Almost no difference, it’s amazing. Horned toads are so cute, I wonder what one that weighs a few tons would eat, and how close the DNAs of ostriches, emus and the extremely vicious Australian cassowary are to ancient raptors? It sure would be fun to find out, right?

Not with a Death Star but with a movie ban. This is both ridiculous and sublime, and I have to thank China for it. How often do we get to see this rare combination?

China, which puts tariffs of American imports at over 200% and has for decades, is irate at the newly increased tariffs against their goods. They were increased by 10% in February to impel the Chinese to stop the flow of Fentanyl into the US. Instead, the Chinese increased their tariffs against us, as we’ve all heard by now, so Pres. Trump increased ours on them today to about 104%.

Prior to this latest increase taking effect, China threatened to ban all Hollywood productions if it did increase. Old movies, new movies, they may all be banned from being shown, I assume online as well as in theaters.

Since US movies shown in China grossed about $600 million last year for Hollywood, this could put a real dent in the income of all those movie makers and actors. So maybe they should focus on making really good, popular movies instead of pouring millions into Woke trash like the horrible parody of Snow White. You think?

The Chinese may just do us all a huge favor, because all that Woke tripe Hollywood’s been churning out has most of us staying out of the theaters. We love a good movie, it would sure be nice to see one again.