Dead-flat-calm morning on Badwater Lake

I am so not willing to discuss politics anymore. I am only willing to discuss morals.

Here is Waldo:

Slightly past peak, but no complaints!

The main and most important Original Intent of the Founding Fathers was: No Fucking Kings!

Sitting in the woods, looking at this instead of paying attention to the news…

Kind of astonishing that it takes army troops in major cities and the Qatari Air Force to keep the Epstein files from escaping…

Suddenly, out of the blue, last night it hit me: why is anybody even talking about Peter Thiel‘s obsession with the Antichrist? Why aren’t we not all rolling on the floor laughing hysterically whenever someone says the word Antichrist. I mean, jeez, there are way better fairytales to obsess over…

Is it time for Democrats to introduce impeachment proceedings against all Republican members of the House for failing to meet their constitutional responsibility to have a federal budget in place by September 30? Dereliction of Duty: seems more high crime than misdemeanor; plenty good enough!

Probably up to be auto-posted to every social media platform, daily…

Pictured rocks at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Lake Superior.

2025 in a nutshell

Democrats need to quickly draft a really draconian gun control bill and title it the Charlie Kirk Memorial Act…

Every now, and then I remember the part of the immigration question that no one ever talks about: the difficulty of actually doing it legally, in time, money, hassles, and limited locations to apply. Oh, and I forgot the arcane rules, the bureaucratic delays, and the unreliable web app…

Sunset Beachsand

It just begged to be photographed…

I haven’t checked Google maps, but it does cross my mind that an Alaskan Air Force Base is about as far away as you can get from where the Epstein files are hiding, without actually leaving the country. No decent golfing up there though…

We are getting a lot of complicated layer-cake skies lately…

Dissipating thunderstorm a few dozen miles to the west just before sunset made for some interesting cloud peeping. Looked like things that the James Webb telescope would’ve sucked out of deep space…

Most, but not all, of the Canadian smoke has left my county, at least for a few days…

Official Texas State Sign:

The rain is politely staying just west of me; we’re just getting the pretty…

Strawberry Moonrise

Just clouds, smoke reprieve…

Lake wind-line

I’m pretty sure they’re not “ICE agents“ but rather “Proud Boys on 1099s”: has any journalist actually gotten documentation of this???

My kind of road: e-biking the northwoods on a grey day, beating tomorow’s Canadian wildfire particulates…

Adding pilots was an actual stroke of genius: you can’t fly people to a gulag if there ain’t a pilot willing risk jail time for contempt! :-) bsky.app/profile/theb...

Ella Baron on Israel’s destruction of Gaza

My governor shows how it’s done:

Every day, in every way:

No seashells here in the Northwoods, but there’s more than one way to encode a message!

American healthcare system is a house of cards: Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, people just paying out of pocket until they’re bankrupt. But pulling one card out will put additional stress on all the other cards and break them one by one. Medicare for all, now! bsky.app/profile/blue...

It takes a special kind of dumb to be a CEO and not realize you could knock the hell out of your 30% turnover rate for a mere 55 or 60 cents an hour… Doh! bsky.app/profile/pear...

So if you take away a whole bunch of cars and life New York City gets way better and easier and quieter, isn’t that proof of concept that cars are why we can’t have nice cities??? bsky.app/profile/chri...

Some media say QatarCraft will have to be handed over to the military for “necessary communications and security upgrades required of all military aircraft that serve as Air Force One“. I rather safely predict that process will result in him never flying the plane during his administration!

Sun/Moon: tonight

Yo, MAGA: He decided that he identifies as Leo. So watcha gonna call him?

This is kind of sucks: the Constitution has foreign clause and domestic emoluments clauses: the president can’t take money from foreign governments and he can’t take money from state or federal governments. But it appears it’s OK to grift crypto money from individuals… Sociopaths are too clever!

Yes, we have reached this point. Midwestern-Nice is now capitulation, accommodationism with evil people. bsky.app/profile/gary...

Yes, it’s getting clearer by the week that Stephen Miller is the evil antichrist running the country right now, with his hand up the sock-puppet president’s ass. Who do you think posted the picture of Trump in the pope suit? jeffpearlman.bsky.social/post/3lobccjm2nk2e

Too goidto miss: bsky.app/profile/xkcd...

In the old Soviet Union, citizens turned to dark humor. In the new United States, we seems to be resorting to juvenile humor. Not sure what to make of this. But this one really is funny as hell! Don’t they stock any of those combat stay-awake pills on Air Force One??? bsky.app/profile/fire...

Yup: the only thing House Democrats should allow to come to a floor vote is Articles of Impeachment! And yes, JD Vance will make a terrible president and we must impeach him too, the minute he starts violating the Constitution… bsky.app/profile/josh...

Well, federal judges, the gauntlet has been thrown down. I hope she takes an overt political stance, that it is utterly inappropriate to target people who are in misdemeanor court, trying to play by the rules. Are you going to start arresting Trump officials that ignore your orders, or not?

This: because it is only two short hops to declaring “Trump arrangement syndrome“ to be a dangerous, terrorist illness, and a list will be compiled of those who need to be medicated and cured… And because it is wrong and dangerous just in its own right! Ok bsky.app/profile/jtay...

Oh yes: I am SO looking forward to watching my fellow Americans reactions to the first black African pope! bsky.app/profile/name...

I’m pretty sure that if he were still with us, he would be instructing the Swiss Guard to meet President Trump at the border of the Vatican and turning him away as a convicted felon. Out of respect for the office, he would have them forgo the mandatory strip-search and 48-hour dungeon stay…

The Chinese are playing us like an old Elvis 45: Return to sender Address unknown No such number No such zone We had a quarrel A lover's spat I write, "I'm sorry" But my letter keeps coming back www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...