Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for February 15, 2016

1. The father ought not to discourage his son by insulting him.2. It would not be “Einstick,” but rather “Zweisticks,” anyway.3. This small invention, by a tiny boy, is more than any animal in the world could do. Humans can really “think” (abstractly, etc.), but animals cannot. Animals act purely on instinct … or by accident … or by mechanically storing memories of experiences, which later evoke automatic attraction/avoidance responses. Nowadays, probably due to religious beliefs in reincarnation, many people wrongly imagine ridiculously grandiose things about animals (e.g., rights, personhood, humanlike capabilities, etc.) — and they sometimes even ludicrously buy and spend vast sums on pets, rather than raise children (despite being able to do the latter).