Still more bull

Molly sounds kind of British to me.

It could be; we speak English, after all.  And yes, it's perfectly fine to call a mixed sex grouping of cows, cows but doing so indicates a very superficial knowledge of bovine critters.  Perhaps this is just one of those topics that doesn't spark your interest.  You seem to be a city boy to your very core, Uncle Ken, but even a city boy should know that chickens come in flocks and not bunches.   While at your grandfather's chicken empire in Goshen didn't you ever remove any eggs from beneath an uncooperative hen?  Personal experience has taught me that hens don't like strangers grabbing their eggs but that was on a different uncle's farm.  Fresh eggs look a bit different than the squeaky clean items you find at the supermarket; you can imagine why.

Bovines, like all words is artificial in that someone made it up, is a term that describes a larger critter group of which our friends the beeves are only a part of.  It's like canines, felines, ovines, porcines, and ursines.  And as stated earlier, the word specific to a girl cow is...cow.  Unless she's a heifer or freemartin.  Male "cows" are bulls, or steers, or oxen.  It's a fascinating world out there on the farm; at least I find it so.  It could be a side effect of running around the farm barefoot a lot and having having some strange stuff squishing between my toes.  It didn't take long to learn that shoes are a good idea.

I did learn an obscure term, the "gomer bull," which casts a whole new light on the Jim Nabors character on the old Andy Griffith Show.  Given the sexuality of Mr. Nabors I wonder if the writers were tying to be clever.

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The investigation into that "lodestar" editorial has really run out of steam as Uncle Ken states.  That's the nature of the news cycle, there's always something new being put on the front burner.  Very early this year there was that Wolff book, Fire and Fury, and then there were those books by Omarosa, Stormy, and Woodward.  Big initial flashes with lots of hype but no heat as the public interest moves on to the latest spectacle.

The Kavanaugh saga should end soon and a very unlikely scenario occurred to me.  Suspend your disbelief for a moment and imagine that the Senate votes and it's a 50-50 tie with the Vice-President casting the deciding vote.  And he votes no.  Bang! Zoom!  A major power play for control of the GOP and an immediate serious contender for 2020.  Pence could get away with it; there are plenty of equally conservative candidates for Supreme Court and it would distance him from any taint resulting from a Kavanaugh appointment.  Very unlikely, I know, but there doesn't seem to be any limit to how weird things can get and a dagger in the back would be it's own kind of poetic justice for the Trump regime.  Et tu, Mike?