It is the 4th of November, and yet it is literally almost two weeks since the beginning of the “Jacobs creature” melodrama. Despite the repeating of this story endlessly by the media, there are new stories being written this Sunday about it as if it is news.

This media flap beats to the drum of a different kind of absurdity.

There are people – thanks to news stories such as on CNN News today – that are hearing about and seeing a Rick Jacobs photo for the first time, described as a “juvenile sasquatch.”

At least one image (see above left) is still being shown, usually without even one comparison photograph of a mangy bear (as, for example, on the right).

Some folks even wish to ignore the obvious, saying that bears cannot get themselves into contorted positions.

Do not be distracted by the healthy fur and body fat of this specimen shown below, and merely take a look at how twisted the body of a bear can get when it needs to scratch itself: