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Big Bird dies in the end
There might be no political position for which there can be so little reasonable disagreement than that federal funding for PBS/NPR should end; perhaps that it should never have happened in the first ...
A company that claims to have resurrected the dire wolf has unveiled plans to bring back the moa, a long-extinct bird that ...
Death to Big Bird
This is possibly the only kind of cancellation I can get behind! Early this morning, the Senate voted 51–48 to remove $9 ...
AP Big Bird deserves to lose this time. In the past, whenever Republicans have tried to cut federal funding for public ...
The stated reason for doing this — the liberal bias of public broadcasting — is as bogus as Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson ...
Big Bird’s rival for bulk is the extinct elephant bird, long billed as the largest fowl on the planet. But the elephant bird, which like Dromornis was flightless, ...
The suit may be the first time the Supreme Court’s ruling is tested. For now, Big Bird’s bosses remain in place—though if ...
From the editorial, "Until Missouri, (Minnesota) and America resume electing actual public servants instead of the cultural ...
After Big Bird announced he was getting vaccinated, some people, including Republican elected officials, made like the inoculation and got up in arms. “Big Bird is a communist,” Arizona state ...
After 50 years of starring as the iconic and lovable Big Bird, Caroll Spinney is hanging up his yellow suit and retiring from "Sesame Street." Spinney, 84, will finish his work on the show this ...
Caroll Spinney, the actor who played Big Bird and Oscar on "Sesame Street," died on Dec. 8 at the age of 85.His cultural impact was enormous, but one phone call he made behind the scenes ...
Not to dwell on that little bird but it also reminded me of another bird – Sesame Street’s loveable, 8-foot, 2-inch yellow canary named “Big Bird” – that also played a much-remarked upon ...