Call me a sharpshooter for getting this shot of a speckled sharpshooter, Paraulacizes irrorata. The insect's legs let you imagine that it was running at a good clip along the rosinweed (Silphium radula) stalk it was on near Bull Creek on June 24th; in fact this leafhopper wasn't hopping at all, and that lack of movement gave me time to take some decent pictures.
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On July 26th the satirical Babylon Bee came out with the
funny four-minute video "Obese Man Insists He's Just Pregnant."
Although the pronunciation o-bese leads English speakers to conceive the word's components that way, actually they're the Latin elements ob and es-. Ob was a preposition with many meanings, including 'on account of.' Es- meant 'eaten.' It was the past participle of edere, 'to eat,' (think of edible) that was the Latin cognate of native English eat. So a person becomes obese on account of having eaten [too much]—just as etymology fattens our body of knowledge.
© Steven Schwartzman
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