AbouBenAdhem

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/hawks-helping-keep-oakland-streets-safe-by-dispersing-crow-roosts/

while Baz insists he has nothing against crows, it's the mess they leave behind that has people crying foul.

That’s what I’m secretly training the crows for.

I doubt the falconer would have any issue with me—I’m helping to keep them employed.

The Scouring of the Shire is probably the most explicit anti-industrialization section of the books—more so even than the destruction of Isengard.

I’m indifferent to squirrels... but my city has hired a falconer to scare the crows away with hawks, so now the crows symbolize the oppressed masses being persecuted by the state.

A crow-calling whistle and a small tin of peanuts.

Blood Meridian as an illustrated children’s book.

What’s the purpose—research? Tax evasion? Shits and giggles?

Yeah, that’s why we need at least... two of them.

“I didn’t think I would become an example of the face-eating-leopards meme.”

That... seems like what you'd expect, assuming that most districts aren’t sitting right on the 50% party preference line and fluctuating up and down every two years.

You know that there are two unrelated words, and you’ve seen two different spellings—it’s a natural assumption that the latter stems from the former.

Why so many people would pair them up the same (etymologically unsupported) way, I don’t know... maybe we’re used to correlating words relating to art with French, and assuming that words with “ou” come from French as well (and this case just happens to be an exception).