While idling away the hours last New Year’s Eve, I was watching a documentary about Brazil on public TV. During the intervals when most other stations run commercials, this one paid its moment of homage to the oil companies, then cut to a strange aquatic scene. A team of trained dolphins was swimming around in […]
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