White House staff tried to get Bork to change, but he couldn’t hide his disdain for the process.” “Bork presented his positions, controversial as they were on the substance, in a gruff and standoffish manner, lecturing rather than having a conversation. In other words, the black rhino is only called such because it is not ‘white’.” The ‘white’ rhino got its name because it has a ‘wide mouth for eating grass, pronounced, in Dutch and Afrikaans, like English ‘white’, while the ‘black’ one has a sort of pointed upper lip for nibbling the shrubbery. “ Zoological-linguistic note: White rhinos ( Ceratotherium cimum) and black rhinos ( Diceros bicornis) are really about the same color, namely gray.

The 19 October 1959 edition of Life Magazine reports on Cacareco (it’s worth looking through the rest for the 1959 ads alone) (there’s also a piece about Nixon on the campaign trail). Get ready for explosives, presidential pigs, Supreme Court scrapping, and wronged rhinos.Ĭontent note: there is some description of torture about halfway through the episode.

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