Buffalo and Bison

I used to get confused about the difference between buffalo and bison. These days, I remember it by - you can't wash your hands in a buffalo.

"Meet the UK’s New Woodland Rangers: a Herd of Wild Bison"
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-woodland-rangers-wild-bison

(Why yes, I DID just link to that story as an excuse to re-use that old joke. Bite me.)

Libraries. They're good.

Salman Rushdie – who can be said to have paid his dues as a free-speech advocate several time over, methinks – thinks the War on Libraries in the United States is worrying.

https://apnews.com/article/salman-rushdie-public-appearance-freedom-of-speech-02d429629e1daee57a49b53995ef71c5